Couchbase Inc.

I'm also, well, this week I'm back out in Austin for Qualis Rock On.

Next week I'm at the Couchbase user event.

The week after that I'm at Security Field Day in Santa Clara.

And then I think two weeks after that, we're at KubeCon where we're doing our first Futurum Summit at KubeCon Monday morning.

If you are at a smaller organization, let's say five thousand or less, and you really want to hone in on one segment of your population, let's say it's people managers.

At my previous organization, Couchbase, what they did is, and I loved this, and I, and I, and I try to bring this up as often as I can, um, from a communication perspective, is, you know, there are different personality tests and assessments that break people up into, you know, whether it's four types of people to up to sixteen types of people when you look at, uh, the Myers-Briggs, which breaks it up into sixteen different personality types.

And so the, the way to segment people, you can slice it and dice it no matter which way you want.

But at Couchbase, what they did is, and this was an organization that had about twelve hundred employees.

They said, "We want to really understand who our people are, but we wanna focus on our people managers first." And so they had this, um, assessment that they use, a very popular in as-assessment called the Enneagram.

And so we were able to basically-- uh, they required, a requirement was that people managers had to take this assessment.

Speaking of, like, the first impression or even the, the initial few seconds of when you connect or reconnect with somebody, whether it's in person or on Zoom, this happened to me a few weeks ago.

A friend of mine named BJ Szaknyoski, he's a CEO of a company called Couchbase.

He's doing big things.

We worked together a long, long time ago, and he hired me to speak to his old company, like, five years ago, and now he wants me to come back.