TeamValue Team Day — how we work together, connect and deliver value

Trust & responsibility form strong teams

Yes, it was finally possible again! Get together physically with the entire team. How much everyone needed that. On Friday morning, we were welcomed at Erfgoed Bossem in Lattrop-Breklenkamp, near the German border. Colleagues came from Groningen, Friesland, Utrecht, Zwolle, Amsterdam and everything in between. A varied group of not all like-minded people. That is what characterizes our team and what makes us so strong. To keep our team strong, we have the necessary calls on the agenda, we have Ke Akamua's (moments of connection and improvement with the team) and our well-known team days. Trust and responsibility are key here. We are there for each other. Not only in our work, but also when things go a little less. We also talk about our Ohana (which means family in Hawaiian). Of course, we don't mean that as directly as it might happen, but we do belong together. We are a team.

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Team Day - Feedback & Boxing

Once we arrived at the farm, we already saw other teams boot camping. We thought: what are we actually going to do? After the first cup of coffee, we went into the heritage and expressed expectations for each other. There are also a number of new team members, so it's an excellent opportunity for them to immediately taste the atmosphere and get to know each other really well. We talked about adding value, about a blind spot that everyone has, what each other's strengths and weaknesses are, we thought about how you see yourself and how you think someone else sees you. A very uncomfortable exercise to look at each other without saying anything, even if we say so ourselves... But it does bring great insights and also immediately reaffirmed our culture and core values. We see that reflected in all team members. That's great to see! After lunch, the time had come: boxing! Listening, feeling, collecting, looking at the other person, giving and taking feedback and just being physically active and getting out of your head.

Oxygen for your team - using the feedback loop in everything we do

We know: professional and personal development go hand in hand. The two need each other, just like business and IT need each other. Situations where you can use the 'feedback loop' are endless, but we often don't think about them enough in daily practice. A compliment or a simple feedback moment is easy to get with a little bit of attention. But when do you really pay attention to each other? When do you make time for that? During the team days, that was key! And what else did that look like? After some theory about Lencioni's pyramid and “chatje daadje-kwadraatje” inspired by Defence, we set to work on providing feedback. In three rounds, you received valuable feedback from your colleagues that you can also move forward with after the team days. Because we believe: if you make yourself better, you also make the team better and vice versa. Feedback is oxygen for your team.

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Team spirit strengthened — looking ahead together

A full day program on Friday. We ended satisfied and the drinks and dinner were waiting for us there. Delicious fresh products from our own farm. The evening program continued with 'The Facts' & Ranking the Stars. Everyone during our 3rd quarter of the Rockefeller game was tasked with collecting a number of facts about each other. Something another colleague did not know about them yet. Super fun to do and sometimes on a serious note. 'Ranking the Stars aka the team members' was also very popular. Who survives best on a deserted island? Who could be the first to invent 'the new light'? Who do you ask for the most honest clothing advice? After Franka's top presentation, it was time for the mini karaoke and for some of us to take a look at the stars, because we slept in a star cube on the heritage. All in all, great days that we look back on and, above all, look ahead together.

Cooperation with our neighbors Inn-spiratie

Inn-spiration has been there from the start. Partly because of them, our team days are challenging and connecting. We share that passion for strengthening cooperation. And let them just be our neighbors in Zwolle. 1+1=3. And in this case, that's really true. Based on the same open culture, drive for development and the value of coaching, we have been working together for a number of years. This year, again, meant that we had two INN-inspiring team days. Inn-spiratie ended the day: you really are a team you want to belong to!

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