Far too often, employees of small and mid-size companies are thrown into positions of leadership without any real guidance or training. That’s why Milwaukee-based software startup Secchi was founded: to simplify the process of performance management for HR professionals and operations managers.
Mike White, founder and president, spent 15 years as a HR professional at several companies including Master Lock, Caterpillar and Fairlife. He’s been responsible for more than 60 facilities across the globe and found he kept on running into the same problem at each one. There wasn’t a streamlined process to document performance issues with employees. This created more work as White found himself constantly teaching others how to record conversations or negative events.
“When you’re leading a lot of people, it’s hard emotionally and it’s hard tactically,” he said. “The emotional part of it is, when you do an (employee) write up, you’ve lost sleep at night. You have this employee who’s being a problem, but you’re thinking, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ Then there’s also the tactics. I have a master’s degree in HR, but when I write people up, I still Google it. I want to make sure I do it right.”
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