Pim de Morree: Want Happy, Inspired and Motivated Teams? Here’s Everything you Need.

Pim de Morree is the Co-founder of Corporate Rebels. In 2016 Pim had grown weary of the corporate world and so quit his job and, alongside his friend Joost Minaar, founded Corporate Rebels in an effort to fight against the trudge and despair of outdated workplaces. Corporate Rebels started as a blog documenting Pim and Joost visiting radical workplaces and showing the world of business another way. Over time it has grown into much more than a blog, it’s a movement, a quest to make work fun. In this video, from the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference, Pim spoke to us about the work done by Corporate Rebels and told us the vital ingredients needed for happy, inspired and motivated teams.

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Everyone loves a rebel don’t they? Our delegates definitely fell in love with Pim de Morree, a (corporate) rebel with a cause, and that cause is to make workplaces more fun. The Corporate Rebels have been travelling around the world for 6 ½ years now; they have visited progressive workplaces at every corner of the globe and gathered information about how these companies work, what it is they do that improves work for their employees. “…We visited many organisations around the world; companies of up to 80000 employees that organise themselves in a radically different way, without lots of layers of hierarchy. Where employees have the freedom to elect their own leaders, to make their own decisions when it comes to hiring and firing. Pretty radical ideas.”

We were lucky enough to have Pim come and speak at our 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference and talk to us about 6 of those ideas, ideas that not only help organisations to organise themselves more successfully and increase motivation and productivity but ideas that make the monday morning blues a thing of the past as work becomes more fun.

In this video Pim goes through his six “ideas on what you can actually do to change the way your team works based on the research of more than 150 organisations that we’ve been visiting around the world.” These are: How to redesign your meetings, how to distribute decision-making, how to improve feedback, roles and responsibilities, better conflict resolution and results-based learning. There’s so much to learn from this video. But be warned many of our delegates fell a little bit in love with Pim, he is a rebel after all.

What you will learn in this video:

How Corporate Rebels collect information on radical workplaces.
How to redesign your meetings.
How to distribute decision-making.
How to give better feedback.
How to switch from thinking in terms of job descriptions to thinking of roles and responsibilities
How to resolve conflict better.
Why you should switch to results-based working.
How to measure progress in results-based working.
How to decide salary in results-based working.
What are the main barriers to change?

Related resources:

Visit the Corporate Rebels website.
Henry’s blog on the Corporate Rebels’ book Make Work More Fun.
The Happy Manifesto by Henry Stewart- click here to get your free eBook, full of great ideas for creating a happy workplace.
Click here to find more videos from the 2022 Happy Workplaces Conference.

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