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Olá, Servus, Zdravo, Hallo – welcome on board!

Fresh international impulses for our BIC-Team

In connection with our own OD-process we have discovered that we need support in the following areas:

• International Coaching
• Social and economic trends and developments
• Organisation and service
• Knowledge and learning

Now we are happy that we have found 4 international team members as personnel reinforcement to support us in all upcoming topics and challenges in the fields of personnel- and organizational development.

Welcome!

Amela Hamzic-Rieser – Bosnia
Jan Sebastian Schneberger – Germany
Ana De Bastos Mota – Portugal
Eva Flatz – Austria
(from left to right)

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“Scrum – but” …

An inspiring form of agile collaboration. We’ve tried out and varied the Scrum format for personnel development using different topics and different settings. We ourselves were greatly surprised by the positive results. “Scrum – but” … – for more information go to Insights.

Support from Portugal

From time to time we welcome interns in our team, not only from Austria but also from other countries around the world. Based on their personal and educational background and professional experience we involve them in various topics and let them work autonomously in a specific field of interest and in a given frame. Actually Ana is joining our team for three months and for this time our mutual language in meetings and conversations is English.

Beside the integration into daily business topics, we invite our trainees to join our team events. Thus Ana could make her first hiking experiences and what it means to work out in Austria after a long day in the office.
Here are some impressions of the tour with the team and a funny evening at an alp called “Gsohl” in Vorarlberg (editorial team):

Think out of the box: International personnel development

This cooperation with the main focus on personnel and organizational development is for us a good example how new perspectives can be created on both sides of a partnership.

In an interview for the company magazine of our partner Van Hoecke/Belgium, Urs Bolter (Blum International Consulting) gives an insight to his work as a consultant around the globe.

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International teamwork

Our core team at Blum International Consulting gets regular visits from employees from our subsidiaries’ HR departments. This was the case in early April when Amanda Moore (Blum USA) and Allen Carter (Blum UK) came to Hoechst.

These visits prompt an intensive exchange of knowledge and experiences – the office is like a beehive. Meetings and chats during breaks are conducted in English, mixed in with a few words of Vorarlberg dialect. This is how our guests gain an insight into our day-to-day activities, find out more about the issues we deal with and familiarize themselves with our culture. This allows us to continuously come up with new ideas and jointly develop input on how to translate personnel and organizational development into practice at Blum.

Our intensive exchange of knowledge and experiences over a short period of time produces synergies and allows us to lay the foundations for effective collaboration.

Laid-back evening: Panorama Restaurant Karren / Dornbirn

These visits are valuable experiences for us all – both in our professional and personal lives. They are a great opportunity for us to actually implement the concept of cross-border networking and international collaboration.

Together we are strong! (editorial team)

Dream mobile

In an international Company like Blum, more and more people and groups work on the same topic or project in various subsidiaries and time zones. To look at the challenges and opportunities offered by this situation, we carried out the Dream Mobile exercise with the participants of two different workshops.

The object of the exercise was for the subgroups to design and build the identical prototype of a vehicle. A special challenge was that the teams had limited communication possibilities. The result was quite astounding! (Michael Grabher)

 

“Bees meet flies” – organizational forms of tomorrow

We invited people from different backgrounds and with different experiences under the motto “bees meet flies”. The idea was to jointly think about new and useful organizational forms.

The day’s format, which was somewhere in the middle between chaos and order, promoted an exchange of ideas, helped us provide impulses and put ideas to paper. The abundance of impressions and insights will serve as a long-term storage of ideas for further development. The loose connections and networks that were created during the event have a lot to do with new organizational forms.

Watch the photovideo and join us on an atmospheric journey! Have fun and (re-)enjoy the day which was a very special one for all of us! (Andreas Quendler)

Elect your own Boss in a democratic vote – why not?

Clear and hierarchic structures are fundamental to success. Or are they? How can the employees of an organization elect their managers and play a part in defining their strategy, recruiting and business plan? Business practice at Haufe-Umantis in St. Gallen is based on democratic principles. We visited the software company and had a look at how they implement co-determination structures and transparency in their day-to-day business. (Editorial team)

TA’OR Boxes from Van Hoecke

Our Belgian partner Van Hoecke surprised us with a parcel of beautiful TA’OR boxes when we moved to our new office and launched our new website. The team was delighted, and unwrapping the presents was like Christmas in spring. The practical desk organizers in various designs add the finishing touches to our office. (Editorial team)

Necessity is the mother of invention!

What do you do if you don’t have the right materials for a workshop exercise? This was our dilemma at a workshop to support the organizational development process in Singapore. But necessity is the mother of invention:

Instead of using blindfolds for a trust-building exercise, the participants popped orange Blum bags over their heads. The bags had the same effect, were so much more fun – and they added a splash of color to the photos ;-). (Ruth Kalb)