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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Working in an Inspiring Company



Motivated people make Successful Companies.


If you could chose any company in the world, where would you like to work?

I have asked  this question to many persons around me and the answer was Google.

Then, I have asked: WHY?
The answers were mainly that they would like to work for on of the biggest and more inspiring companies.
Indeed, this company is inspiring for workers and for customers.

What makes this company to be "Inspiring"?


The main answers were:
  • Because I can improve my skills by working in that company
  • Because it seams that they have a lot of fun
  • Because they are leaders in new technologies
A company like this receives hundreds of applications every month and they can have the best workers and propose them to their clients.

There are huge advantages for a company to be Inspiring:



  • Make their clients to desire to work with them
  • Make other people to envy they workers


First of all, the company need to be known by everybody. The best way to do so is by using the modern Social Media. All the people working on new technologies, experts and potential clients, usually read publications from social networking. Moreover, a real Expert, can only be expert if he is present in the social networking.
However, the best broadcasting tool you can use, is the oral "peer-to-peer". Of course, it is not about file sharing, bit about letting Passionate and Inspired people to talk about the company. Passionate people will find the correct way to inspire others.

So, let people talk about your company, but what shall they say?


Why not letting your employees to explain why are they inspired?

Inspire your Expert Team, give them the time, the tools and the scene and they will inspire the others!
For this, many different strategies are possible:
  • Regular technical internal presentations will allow them to share their knowledge with other internal consultants. This could inspire other internal workers.
  • Exceptional external presentations oriented to customers would allow them to display their inspiration and to have a more extended impact
  • Training. A good expert can on be called so, when he can transmit his knowledge to others. And, of course, every customer wants an expert to work in his team
  • Social networking widely and regularly spread their knowledge. An expert is the one being part of the international references on a particular subject
Maybe you company has only few Inspired Experts. But everybody can be an Inspiring Expert, all that you need is to find the correct motivation for every kind of personality: for some of them, there is the money, for some others there is the prestige and for some others is just the "fun". Find the motivation for every employee as I explain in Team Building / Corporating People.

Another solution could be to provide a more Experimented Inspired Expert to guide them on how to transmit their inspiration. Or even to work with them on writing social-media content or public lectures..

Even if the success is not guaranteed, remember that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.



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2 comments:

  1. I attended this morning the monthly information meeting organized by my current client for all the Research and Development employees.

    I was very happy to hear that the company has an Expert program called EDISON with some very interesting goals:
    • Promote the people considered as expert by their pairs
    • Encourage other persons to become experts
    • Support those considered as experts to spread their knowledge

    The company invests different resources in this program, mainly personal, time and money.

    Somebody presented this winner-winner program by using the metaphor of the Bee and the Hive: anything beneficial for the Bee, is also beneficial for the Hive and vice-versa. The Hive invests in the welfare of the Bee, in return, the Bee participates in incrementing the prestige of the Hive.


    It goes exactly in the same direction than my post and it really comforts me.

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  2. Netflix’s current Chief of Talent Tawni Cranz.

    “It’s exciting and important to share culture. More and more people choose to work at a company not for the work but increasingly for the company culture and leadership.”

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