Maneuvering Monday

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What is the ecosystem at Zebra Apps? Can you truly act on your own when you are part of a system?

This week Anne Weber Carlsen advises Marie on how she should maneuver. Anne is the Co-founder of Human by Nature and one of the founding facilitators of the discipline in Denmark.   

Tools & topics

• Regenerative leadership and looking at organizations as living systems
• Ecosystemic analysis  

Guest:

Anne Weber Carlsen

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Marie finally calls Anne and they arrange to meet.  When Anne and Marie meet, it is awkward and tense. Anne explains that she left Zebra Apps because she could not keep the engineering department together as a single person. The system itself was flawed. 

What does Marie do when she is pushed by Anne? Could Zebra Apps have done more for the children displaced by conflict? 

Thank you to Tiffany Lam for reading this episode. 

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Why is the HR department in Zebra Apps oh so dysfunctional? How do you achieve credible insights into the temperature amongst the employees when there are glass walls between HR, the leadership team, and the rest of the company? And what are the best strategies to follow up when you finally get these insights? Patrick Sheridan answers these questions and shares his real life experiences from daily work with HR in his role as a Transformation Lead in FLSmidth. 

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Guest:

Patrick Sheridan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pasheridan/

Tools and topics:

• The role of HR in an organization
• Using employee surveys to create an engagement strategy and deliver the results to line management so they can follow up with their employees
• 3 step approach: Focus on internal communication, get the senior leadership to restate who we are as a company, and reestablish the values
• Dysfunctions of HR due to lack of clear roles and processes
• Purpose and use of exit interviews
• Importance of interdepartmental collaboration within HR - and across all departments in a company
• Awareness of cultural differences across countries e.g. relational and hierarchal structures

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Marie presents the results of her benchmark to Natalie and Mark. Mark takes note of the free soda missing from their package. During the meeting, Marie understands that Mark has been conducting exit interviews with employees, but never shared the results with her. He promised to share the results. Esther, the benefits manager, shares the results in a stack of printed paper on Marie’s desk. 

What is in the exit interviews? And what has happened in the past year, that changed everything?

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What does it say about a company when employees start leaving for jobs with less pay? Can soda really be a differentiating factor for employee retention? And can you buy one unit of trust and two buns of collaboration at the baker's? Our two guest commentators Puk and Claus pose and answer these and more questions in this commentary episode.

Listen to Marie's story that is commented on here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2104440/12213283  

Guests:

Puk Falkenberg

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pukfalkenberg/  

from Good Morning April

https://www.goodmorningapril.com/  

Claus Vagner Pedersen

https://www.linkedin.com/in/clausvpedersen/ 

from Syndicate

https://www.syndicate.dk/en/about 

Frameworks:

Frederic Laloux

https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/ 

Five stages of grief

https://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/ 

The Five Dysfunctions of a Teams

https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/ 

Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wayne-Velicer/publication/285440305_The_transtheoretical_model/links/5662ed8008ae418a786b963c/The-transtheoretical-model.pdf 

Basecamp implodes

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22412714/basecamp-employees-memo-policy-hansson-fried-controversy 

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It's the end of the month. Another employee resigns from Zebra Apps, an EdTech company. Marie, the head of development HR, is tasked with getting to the bottom of the wave of resignations. Could it be that the company does not offer free soda? Or is there something else at play?

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