The Performance Shift: Grow with CARE by Isabel Verstraete

Meiny Prins, CEO at the Dutch tech company Priva explains in this 2nd episode of '16 minutes of CARE' how artificial intelligence and algorithms can help you become more sustainable faster and cheaper.  Meiny gives tips on how to start to create impact together with your clients, create leverage and scale up this sustainable collaboration. Today's modern farming techniques, the usage of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, as well as deforestation and global warming are not the route toward a more sustainable food business. She gives her ideas on how and why food production can be done in a more caring way.  Listen and learn from this game changer in the business-to-business industry.

Priva is a high-tech company that develops hardware, software, and services in the field of climate control, energy saving, and optimal reuse of water. They do that for horticulture, indoor and city farming, and buildings. Priva's CEO Meiny Prins is passionate to help other entrepreneurs make more profit with fewer natural resources.  Her personal mission to make a positive impact in this world became the purpose behind the Priva brand.  In this first episode, Meiny talks about how the food industry needs to be transformed as we are heading toward a disaster if we continue to produce food on a mass scale as we do today.  Meiny is a pioneer in helping small, local, urban food production communities all over the globe. Already for 15 years, she is part of the change in cities like Singapore and Dubai. Check out this episode of '16 minutes of CARE' and hear from this visionary CEO about how we can all create a positive impact.

46% des Belges souffrent de solitude, et les études confirment que ce sentiment de solitude est vivant à toute âge. En 2020 AG Insurance a développé une campagne de notoriété pour mettre en avant ce problème sociétal. Une plateforme digitale a été crée en collaboration avec des associations comme La Croix Rouge, Télé Accueil,...pour aider les personnes qui se sentent seules.  Découvrez dans ce podcast pourquoi AG Insurance mène une action aussi longue et sans intérêt commercial et comment ils collaborent avec des écoles, des psychologues et des éditeurs pour aider les jeunes. 

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Découvrez tout sur le cadre stratégique CARE sur: https://thecareprinciples.com.

Nathalie Erdmanis, Directeur Sustainabilility chez AG Insurance, leader en assurances en Belgique est l'invitée au '16 minutes of CARE', le podcast de Isabel Verstraete. Dans ce troisième épisode nous parlons du modèle stratégique CARE en découvrant pourquoi la collaboration et l'agilité sont important pour un leader d'assurances.  Nathalie explique quelle type de services et produits digitaux sont lancé pour aider leur clients et pour travailler sur la prévention. Dans le prochain épisode, nous parlerons des 2 autres shifts stratégique dans le modèle CARE, notamment: la fiabilité et l'empathie. 

Abonnez-vous pour apprendre comment les entreprises invitées gardent une longueur d'avance. 

Plus d'information sur les CARE Principles aux: www. thecareprinciples.com

Nathalie Erdmanis est Directeur Sustainability chez AG Insurance.  Elle explique comment AG Insurance applique la durabilité dans tous ces services aussi bien en interne aux employées, qu'en externe vis-à-vis des clients. Écoutez ce deuxième épisode de '16 minutes of CARE' et découvrez comment la durabilité est devenue un objectif stratégique important pour cette marque d'assurances.  Prendre soin des gens et de la planète est une stratégie gagnante, découvrez sur thecareprinciples.com comment le modèle stratégique de CARE peut vous aider également.

AG Insurance à une vision intuitive dans son ADN. Une stratégie de durabilité et un 'steering committee' sur le CSR (Social Corporate Responsibility) existent depuis plusieurs années également. Depuis un an Nathalie a créé un 'sustainability office' qui a formalisé et concrétisé les efforts en durabilité. Cela fait partie maintenant de la gouvernance de la société. Dans ce premier épisode Nathalie explique comment elle suit les différents agendas sur la durabilité, de challenger le statu quo, comment mettre durabilité sur l'agenda business, etc.

CEO Thomas Van Eeckhout saw how employees today question more the sustainability efforts the company does, compared to the past. So for him, sustainability is a shared responsibility. Both directors and employees can suggest ways to transform faster or better towards a more sustainable future. An honest talk about what Easi already does, and what is still not realized.  "We are not perfect and we are in constant evolution. For the 'best managed company' award I realized we already do a lot, but we mainly have a feeling of not being there yet" says Thomas. Thomas his actionable final advise  on 'care for people' is:  - People don't want flat careers.  - Give people clear tools and indications on how they can evolve. Do you also want to take better care of people and planet? Just contact me on www.thecareprinciples.com

Isabel dives into the CARE strategic framework with Thomas Van Eeckhout to explain the necessity of Collaboration, Agility, Reliability, and Empathy. These are four shifts in the way you work to transform your organization and adapt it to the new demands of employees and clients. 

16 minutes of CARE is a video podcast by the Care Principles, a vision, and book that helps companies grow in a caring and sustainable way.

In the 2nd episode of '16 minutes of CARE' with Thomas Van Eeckhout, CEO at Easi we dive deeper into CARE for people and how Easi does this.

How to make culture explicit?

Why values should evolve in a company? 

How do you keep your values alive in a hybrid way of working and in a company that grows extremely fast?

Thomas is also a co-CEO at Easi, why do they have 2 CEO's and what are the consequences of this?

These are some of the topics that Isabel discusses with Thomas.

An inspiring 16 minutes talk with a CEO who places CARE for people into the core of his business strategy. Listen and learn why CARE is a winning strategy for any organization that chooses to grow in a caring and sustainable way.

Thomas started to work in 2006 for Easi, today he is co-CEO. A clear proof that making promotions within the company is an absolute promise Easi makes. But their CARE for people goes beyond that as their biggest challenge is not to find jobs but to find the right people. Discover more about the importance of culture and how to gain and retain employees in the first episode of '16 minutes of CARE' with Thomas Van Eeckhout.