HPK Services - Management team and management system development project

HPK Services is a reasonably young company, which had the desire to tighten and create management systems and improve the key cooperation of the management team. The past few hectic years were behind us and now was the right time to pause and look to the future. The partner chosen to support the work was More Than Training Company Joshua Moorrees and Tarja Salmi.

”During the first couple of meetings with Joshua, I had already had the feeling that this work could really add value.. These discussions were not sales conversations, but consultative, and I found them valuable in themselves. Joshua clearly had a certain understanding that provided the basis for the discussions,” says HPK Services Managing Director Sami Puukari.

”This was the first time that DiSC analyses were conducted for our management team, and their inclusion in the coaching was also seen as a good thing,” adds HR Manager of HPK Services. Anna Nyström.

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The aim was to improve internal cooperation. Individuals should get to know each other better as people and the necessary policies should also be in place to support cooperation.

”We are a young company, so we still lacked operating models and cooperation mechanisms at a personal level. So there was a need for common ways of discussing in order to. at management team meetings be able to focus more on more strategic thinking in the future and not just on solving the burning issues of the day”, explains Sami.

Along the way, the objectives set for the cooperation were excellently met. ”In particular, the team spirit has really improved a lot. Each of us was given more tools for personal development and growth, and we were also able to make decisions about who we want to be and what we want to do next,” says Anna.

The final results of the collaboration were also iterated along the way. ”Sometimes in this kind of work, the end results are different from what was initially thought. Therefore, achieving this team spirit was a bigger deal than expected compared to the more mechanistic idea of a pure management system. I'm sure many of us have been through this type of coaching, but no one is a good doctor for themselves - and that's when it's useful to have an outsider to see things from a different angle and say things out loud..”, describes Sami.

The trainings were praised not only for their content but also for the experience they provided. ”The experience was extremely positive on a human level. Places for implementation also reinforced the implementation. Very simple ingredients were used to build an impressive concoction - you didn't offer very complicated things, you just chewed things up in the right order to create a spirit of togetherness.!”, says Sami.

The coaching also brought about changes in things and people. The agenda of the management team was adapted to support strategic thinking, and individuals in the management team also have more courage to express their own ideas. ”The management team is now perceived as more of a home base than before, where people dare to talk more openly. DiSC also helps us to better understand our own and others' characteristics, making it easier to improve our own performance.”, describes Sami.

Both Sam and Anna were left with a positive feeling about the collaboration. ”It was an investment worth making. It was worth the time and money it took to go on the trip. Now we are a much more united team than before!”, says Sami.

”I also commend Tarja and her way of going through the DiSC analysis. It was not some psychologist jargon, but very down-to-earth and easy to understand”, adds Anna.

What would you say to someone who is considering More Than Training Company as a partner?

”If we are talking about a similar job, then I would suggest that you consider that whether now is the right time or the right willingness to open things that may be painful to open. This can reveal, for example, conflicts that really need work to be resolved. You really do have understanding and knowledgeable people and experience of in-house companies, but the work still requires commitment and time, even outside of shared moments”, sums up Sami.

Thank you HPK Services for the journey together!

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