Trust and shared leadership
At Fluvius, we strive for a culture of trust, shared leadership and continuous improvement. To achieve this, we remain committed to two strategic choices:
- guiding managers and teams towards shared leadership
- betting on the New World of Work
Guiding leaders and teams towards shared leadership
The teams need to be able to take more initiative in their daily assignments. For this, they need trust from management so that they do not have to check everything again.
This creates a win-win situation:
- Employees gain trust, participation and autonomy. This ownership ensures greater commitment and job satisfaction.
- Customers are helped even faster because employees are allowed to make their own decisions.
- Managers have more time for strategic matters.
Opting for self-organising teams requires a fundamental change in mentality, both among managers and employees. An intensive training programme introduces everyone to this new way of working.
Learning to work differently
With internal coaches, teams find out which values and beliefs are crucial for more shared leadership. We also offer concrete techniques to work better (together).
For 2022 and 2023, we are focusing on four themes, namely increasing trust and psychological safety, learning to engage constructively in a conflict, sharpening culture and shared leadership, and bridging the widening gap.
Betting on the New World of Work
With the New World of Work, we are committed to location-independent working. This means that you can do your work from any location, whether at home or in the office. Digital tools and resources (such as MS Teams and Sharepoint) help us achieve this. In addition, we need to be able to work based on trust and autonomy, fully in line with our choice for shared leadership.
If we all work more location-independently, our office environment has to be adapted to it. We still go to the office mainly to work together and consult with our colleagues. Those who want to, can do individual tasks more from home. That is why we are moving from fixed individual workstations to flexi-workstations and collaboration spaces in the office.
Being and staying employable in a flexible organisation
In a rapidly changing, professional environment, we want to constantly evolve and upskill ourselves. That is why we are fully committed to developing the right competences in our employees. A flexibly employable employee needs three things:
- fitness (= ability to work)
- motivation (= wanting to work)
- the right competences to be and remain employable
In 2022, our own Fluvius Academy, the set of internal training centres, could present the following impressive figures:
