WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU NEED TO ENERGIZE YOUR TEAMS?
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU WANT TO BRING YOUR TEAMS TO THE NEXT LEVEL?
Bob challenges you to make sure you listen to what people have to say. Hear their voice!
Let me share some tools / advices to create ‘one new culture’!
Don’t create a blaming-culture!
Of course, when different companies merge there will be bugs, misunderstandings and prejudices in the beginning. Don’t blame a person, department or country by pointing your finger, because every time you point your finger, 3 fingers are pointing at yourself!
Try to understand before being understood!
First listen without prejudices and with the necessary empathy (prejudices are the imbecile’s truth)!
Ask questions and then do the maximum to support and help your colleagues.
Give and ask for feedforward!
Feedback is per definition ‘talking about the past’. We don’t need thermostats. Ask your people to give feedforward because we all have to reinvent our job!
Look for accelerators!
Identify men and women in your international teams who think and act differently!
You can call them ‘accelerators’ or ‘culture ambassadors’, men and women who spread the good word, stimulating people to develop positive behaviour, motivating people to share and celebrate success stories.
In french they say ‘rien ne se perd, rien ne se gagne, tout se construit !
Which means : nothing is set in stone. If everybody is working for the whole company, you can face every challenge!
The impact on the audience when you speak different languages during your performance is that you connect with the different cultures in an incredible way, it enhances the cohesion!
Some comments from the different countries:
“L’humour, la dérision et énormément d’énergie ‘positive’ au service de messages forts.
Un ton respectueux, profondément humain mais bousculant.Bob, véritable bête de scène, nous a littéralement ‘scotché’ en faisant sa performance tout en jonglant sur quatre langues à la fois! BRAVO, Best of Belgium!“
“Sie haben sich sehr mit unseren Unternehmen vertraut gemacht. Das war hoch professional und hat viel erstaunen – auch in unserer Mitarbeiterschaft – hervorgerufen. Bob und sein roter Stuhl bleiben in Erinnerung.“
“Bob is ongelofelijk voorbereid en weet als geen ander de juiste boodschap over te brengen. Zijn toegevoegde waarde : ‘hij spreekt tot het hart van de mensen!’ De afwisseling van ernst en humor zorgen dat je op het puntje van je stoel blijft.”
Het is altijd enthousiasmerend om jouw ervaringen te lezen en te toetsen met je eigen realiteit. Ik hoop dat je hier nooit mee stopt