Galen Low is joined on the show by Bentzy Goldman (Founder and CEO, Perflo), a distributed startup that helps project leaders and their teams stay aligned and find ways to improve team performance. Learn how to use people data to manage high-performance project groups.
Interview Highlights
This episode will explore how people data can be used to predict and avoid unexpected outcomes that could limit your team’s potential. [0:43]
Bentzy Goldman, a forward-thinking entrepreneur who is also a business strategist, is obsessed with finding better ways to do things and helping businesses stay ahead of the curve. [1:14]
Bentzy is the founder of Perflo and CEO. Perflo is a fully distributed startup that helps project leaders and their teams stay aligned and find ways to improve team performance. [1:32]
He enjoys reading up on the latest trends in the future of work and the autobiographies famous entrepreneurs. He’s a very skilled tennis player and is passionate about fighting rhino poaching. [1:44]
Bentzy, who has been advocating remote work for years, believes that a wide openness to video meeting is the most inspiring or impactful response he has seen to adapt to current circumstances and embrace new ways of working. [3:17]
The new generation of workers is very selective about where they want to work. They don’t necessarily want to work where they pay more. They realize that they must be this way if they want talent to come to them. [5:19]
Perflo is a simple tool that facilitates communication among the team. [5:56]
Startups face the usual startup challenges, such as limited resources and excessive feature requests from product development. [7:45]
Perflo asks questions that are closely related to the project. They measure scope creep, resources, and other things that are relevant to the project. [11:00]
Bentzy finds it exciting to send data to the team and other team members, not just to the manager. [12:58]
Perflo’s nudges are one of their new features. Data-based nudges to encourage managers to adopt positive behavior. [13:22]
Bentzy recently posted a post on The Digital Project Manager titled: How to leverage people data to build and run high-performance project teams. [14:51]
People data is data that is generated by people. People analytics is something that organizations do on a more complex level. It involves analyzing data from different tools and data sets that are related to people. [15:53]
It’s essential to collect data from people in order to understand them and understand their lives. [17:39]
It is important to get to know the team and understand what’s going on within the team at a very basic level.
Bentzy Goldman It is important to dig deeper and get data from people in order to uncover problems. [18:07]
It is important for businesses to use this data and make business decisions based on it. It can also be correlated with project data. [18:29]
Our ultimate goal is to unite people and project data. It is extremely powerful.
Bentzy Goldman Project success can be predicted based on stress levels, different metrics and low team engagement. [18:53]
According to Bentzy’s observations of their customers, the pain points are in one word: surprises. [21:01]
Perflo can be used internally because it eliminates all surprises in a project. [21:48]
A higher level of team engagement correlates with better task performance.
Bentzy Goldman A team that is more engaged in its work will do a better job of j
