Tag: culture

Customer Value Should Be at the Heart of Every Business Process

To tell customer centricity is a must would be an understatement. And a cliché. The problem is that companies begin and end with that in the sales department. Meanwhile the modern market requires a new approach. The one with multiple brand touchpoints and a holistic strategy to back it up. Today customer value should be generated by the entire company – from HR department, through delivery, ending (not beginning) with marketing and sales.

How Health Coaching Services Support Employees’ Well-Being?

Mental and physical health in the workplace hasn’t been that hot topic as it is nowadays. There is a bilateral responsibility for keeping our minds and bodies in good condition. Both individuals and organizations make an effort towards not letting post-pandemic poor health results “steal our light”, motivation and engagement. While there are many things that businesses can do to keep their staff members engaged and inspired, especially in these challenging times, workplace mental health best practices ought to be included in every part of an employer's operating model: policies, procedures, instruction, organizational culture, or guiding principles. Incorporating health coaching services into a wellness program can be a terrific approach for businesses to assist their employees in reaching their health objectives and in enhancing their overall well-being.

When Teal Organizations Are No Longer Enough – Cyan Stem Cell Teams

The roots of practical management theories and trends can be traced back to the natural process of forming managerial structures. However, for a long time, these theories and trends remained unnamed. With the development of science in the 19th century, not only was what had been practiced for millennia given names but also directions were sought in which management science would evolve. Thus, management transitioned from a pre-scientific period, mainly focusing on organizing enterprises in a military form (also known as “red management”), to scientific justification and the interdisciplinary nature of management sciences.

Revolution at Work

What if you would organize your company without any management? Without any rules? Would that work? A company, where you decide on your own salary together with your team? Utopia? It is not. At our company – Finext – in the Netherlands, we make it work for already 20 years. At the beginning of 2016, the company has about 150 employees. And about 100 owners.

Deadbeat or a Rebel? Welcome to the Team!

Bill Gates once said: “If I have a difficult problem to solve, I hire a lazy person be­cause he will find an easy way to do it”. If so, why so many projects are sentenced to weeks and months of email discussions, meetings, and internal struggles? Wouldn’t be just easier to give the task to someone not giving a damn about protocol?