Company Information
The Industry of this Startup
Microbiology
Research associate from September 2021 - June 2022
Max Lee
Leadership style where management works hard to onboard new employees and answered any uncertainties.
Servant Leadership
The three main areas of improvement for Hunter Bio.
Communication, finger pointing, and lack of an overarching company vision.
The number of employees at the company.
10 - 15
Reported directly to research Associate
Mallory Hunt
Theory where in meetings future plans were made that were measurable and achievable.
Goal Setting Theory
A piece of paper or PDF that helps employees do their job.
The form of communication that the company currently uses.
Workforce Type
Hybrid
R&D engineer
Kevin Silva
This is the second piece to Maslow's Motivational pyramid.
Safety Needs
An opportunity available to recently trained employees that usually is not available to this level of employee.
Training
For this company, this type of meeting was about finding who did what wrong.
Troubleshooting Meeting
Company Vision
Unclear
Primary caretaker for cell lines
Mallory Hunt
This is one way that a team can address finger pointing, allowing members to understand one another work as a better unit.
Team cohesion
The style of meeting that Hunter Bio held every week.
"This is what we are currently doing."
These two issues were present between the two sub teams of the company.
Blame deferral and personal attacks
Major Company Issue
Employee turnover / lacking structured management
Trained and delegated projects to CO-OPs
Max Lee
This portion of the FISH philosophy would not work at Hunter Bio.
Throwing items within the lab
A figure that was on-site for this company but is not always the case in other companies.
CEO
A phrase that one interviewee used to describe the feeling that came along with tasks lacking purpose.
"Just an extra set of hands."