The One Who Leads With People Excellence

Lost In Transformation

In this episode, our host and Co-Founder of MING Labs Sebastian Mueller talks to Tim Wieringa, a passionate ambassador with 20 years work experience for positive leadership, design thinking and intrinsic motivation. He guides teams and organizations to improve their agility and excellence in all aspects of the business, focusing on the people side of the change, what he likes to call “People Excellence”. Currently at Huntsman, he is an internal consultant for innovation and collaboration. In this role he is working in the areas of product development, R&D and manufacturing and guides the teams to improve on cross-silo collaboration and agile innovation.

Chapter

1. The One Who Leads With People Excellence (00:00:00)

2. Tim on his past journey and on implementing new ways of working (00:01:33)

3. What does People Excellence mean to Tim? (00:02:45)

4. Business results and culture in driving People Excellence (00:03:54)

5. How is culture related to reaching real business objectives? (00:05:55)

6. Team and company culture in relation to each other (00:08:11)

7. Culture in big corporations and how leaders and newcomers it (00:10:06)

8. What to look at when introducing new behaviors in companies? (00:12:59)

9. Shaping mindsets versus shaping routines (00:14:34)

10. How long does it take to start changing mindsets and routines? (00:18:59)

11. How to explain to leaders that results take time? (00:23:35)

12. Is there an advantage of being an internal consultant? (00:26:00)

13. Does changing mindsets depend on different cultures or geographies? (00:29:52)

14. How to make the shift from "Command and Control" to "Facilitate and Guide"? (00:33:33)

15. How to help leaders shift to the "Facilitate and Guide" model? (00:39:56)

16. How can teams make their shift away from the "Command and Control" model? (00:43:19)

17. Bringing the element of trust to organizations to enable shift and transformation (00:46:17)

18. Do leaders fear change and a new paradigm of "Facilitate and Guide"? (00:53:27)

19. How and why to bridge silos in different organizations? (01:00:31)

20. The importance of Design Thinking in understanding challenges and finding solutions (01:08:25)

21. What are the 3 most important principles when managing change? (01:13:23)