Customer testimonials
Lars Svorse, LOVAK: Organizations suffer from lack of dialogue and trust
Cover photo: Lars Svorse and Magnus Jonason/LOVAK, Paul Choi/Paul&Mark. Photo taken by: Vittra & Friends My name is Lars Svorse, and I am working as a senior consultant and partner in a Swedish consulting firm LOVAK. I have a long experience of leadership from...
Denys Romanov, ImproveIT Solutions: Great teamwork is all about communication
ImproveIT Solutions is a Ukrainian company. We offer software development outstaffing services for mostly European and US companies. ImproveIT was founded in 2017 and we now have almost one hundred employees. Most of our employees work remotely, but we also have two...
Ville Houttu, Vincit USA: SmoothTeam is an energizing tool
Vincit is a 600 employee public company that designs and develops web services, mobile apps, and embedded systems. Ville Houttu, CEO of Vincit USA, shares his experiences with SmoothTeam simulations. Working remotely Vincit has been growing fast during the pandemic,...
SmoothTeam team building simulations reduce isolation and build connections at Right Left Agency
Right Left Agency is a digital marketing agency, and we are a completely remote team. We have experts literally all over the world - the United States, the UK, New Zealand, the Philippines, Bangladesh… Most of our team members have never met in real life, so working...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Juho Uutela, Visma: SmoothTeam opened also difficult topics for discussion
We used SmoothTeam in our product development team, which develops a product called Tiima. Our team members live in different parts of Finland, so we have done a lot of remote work already before the epidemic. The SmoothTeam simulation also worked great remotely. The...
Svea Paju, Tikkurila: SmoothTeam involved even the skeptics
Tikkurila is a leading Nordic paint company. It has offices in several countries and a global distribution network. Our team leads Tikkurila Central Brands – Alcro, Beckers and Tikkurila marketing. We have team members in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. A...
Simo Kuutti, Sandvik: The simulation was one of the most natural teleconferencing events in which I have participated
The main product of Sandvik in Lahti is a hydraulic hammer. I myself have been with Sandvik for a couple of years and I lead a product development planning team of 11 people. I think Sandvik is a great place to work and a great employer, and I want to invest in...
Filip Nyman: SmoothTeam glued our global team together
Our team was established during the merger of two companies. They naturally had different cultures, and the challenge in building a new team in this context is getting to know and understand each other. It’s a challenge to get into informal discussions to understand...
Nordic Healthcare Group: The simulation worked better in team-building than we dared to hope!
Customer projects in varying teams - daily team-building challenging Nordic Healthcare Group NHG is an expert organisation focused on the development of social and health care. We have grown from a small start-up to a medium-sized company and continue to grow. We are...
Satu Niinimäki, Integrata: SmoothTeam helps to tell what people really think
When a global pandemic forced people to flee their jobs to home offices, Integrata made no exception in this regard. We worked remotely all spring, but during the summer, some people returned to the office while others continued to stay at home and telecommute. The...
Sanna Hughes, Finnish Landlords Association: With the help of SmoothTeam, people openly shared their thoughts
Finnish Landlords' Association is an interest group of private landlords and housing investors. We are a close-knit community of 13 people, and we have people from a wide variety of backgrounds. Our organization includes lawyers as well as experts in member services,...
Ilkka Seppälä, Gofore: “SmoothTeam gave us a whole new perspective”
Gofore is an expert company in digitalization. I work there as a technical project manager on several projects. When I started at Gofore in 2012, the company was quite small, less than thirty employees. Now we have almost 600. In...
Sonja Raitamäki, National Union of University Students in Finland: I can definitely recommend SmoothTeam to various organizations
The Association of Finnish Student Unions (SYL) employs ambitious and visionary people. They are not after money, but out of love for the sport. Everyone is committed not only to their own mission, but also to making the whole of SYL better. This is an excellent...
Veli-Pekka Eloranta, Vincit: I recommend SmoothTeam to everyone who does teamwork
At Vincit, we do software development work in project teams. We have a lot of different kinds of people at work. Some are more introverted, like to have headsets on all day, some are more extroverted, and then we have everything in between. When a new project starts,...
Jarno Anttalainen, Viafin GAS: The better we know each other, the smarter we can behave towards each other
Our personnel have been employed by a state-owned company for a long time. In February 2019, the private Viafin Service acquired Gasum's technical services, which became Viafin GAS. This has been a big change process for the people. We need to have the most skillful...
Tero Rinne, Iogen: The openness of the discussion created by SmoothTeam was startling
Iogen is the largest Finnish company importing ophthalmic surgical supplies. We work with a consultative approach, i.e. we understand the needs of our customers and help them in fulfilling them. Because this is a small field of specialist medicine, we have a fairly...
Jarmo Suoranta, TX: SmoothTeam helps to develop the work of management teams in a globally decentralized team
Some of our employees meet regularly in offices in Zug, Switzerland and Helsinki, Finland. In addition, we have people from Australia, America and Spain, among others. In everyday operations, joint meetings of all members of the management team are held remotely....