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Greg Gibson, BC Nokia’s Head Coach: The simulation gave us tools for the future
Finnish Basketball League team BC Nokia's head coach Greg Gibson has been coaching basketball as a professional for nearly twenty years. He has won three championships as well as the League's Coach of the Year Award. In this interview, Gibson shares his views on...
ENCE coach Eetu “sAw” Saha: “In the simulation, we got to consider one of the core questions of sports – what is required of a team for an individual to give their best?”
ENCE’s CS:GO team is one of the world’s leading teams and includes skilled players from many different countries and cultures. Our team is a very close-knit group with a high team spirit and effective communication that is vital for success. The team spends time and...
Antero Lehto, Captain of BC Nokia: We got to the team chemistry level in the discussions
Antero Lehto has seen a lot of different teams playing in addition to the Finnish Basketball League in Italy and the Finnish national team Susijengi. He has also served as captain on two teams. In the following, Lehto talks about his experiences with the SmoothTeam...
Elisa Kitunen, EEX: It’s hard to imagine how else we would have gotten the same insights in such a short amount of time
Helsinki-based EEX Oy (Entrepreneurship Exchange) is a growth company whose mission is to make the world more entrepreneurial. EEX provides large corporate transformers with the experience to learn directly from ambitious startup entrepreneurs: How does an...
Introducing our Korean partner Paul&Mark
Please, tell us about yourself My name is Paul Choi, I'm the founder of the South Korean consulting and training company Paul&Mark. In international contexts, I use the name Paul because my Korean first name, Jaewoong, is hard for many to remember. When I started...
Pekka Mäki-Kuutti, Granite Devices: SmoothTeam simulation allowed for an open and genuine discussion among the entire team
Granite Devices is a Tampere-based eSports company that produces control solutions for digital motorsport simulator equipment and electric motors. The COVID-pandemic has been a fruitful time for us as global demand for eSports products has grown exponentially. Based...
Kirsi-Marja Ura, Ensto: The simulation gave the supervisor understanding about the team and help with leadership
At Ensto, our team is responsible for personnel, communications and responsibility processes on a group-wide basis. We’ve only been working like this for a few months, and some of us know each other better, some not so much yet. One team member started working with us...
Arton Ibrahimi, Kiilto: The immediate and genuine reactions, and the support of the team members were the best things in the SmoothTeam simulation
Kiilto has more than a thousand employees and we operate in 11 countries. Our team is part of Kiilto's Professional Hygiene business, where our mission is to develop the professional hygiene business in five different business segments. New team, new ways of working...
Jarmo Annala, Visma Solutions Oy: SmoothTeam simulation supports collaboration, motivation and enthusiasm
Visma Solutions Oy is a software company with about 300 employees. Experienced coaches participated in the simulation. That’s why we chose the Biases in our Thinking simulation as this group needed challenges for their thoughts and because as they were all coaches,...