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Customer story: LähiTapiola

The LähiTapiola Group serves its customer-owners in matters of insurance, investment and savings. Our core mission is to help our owner-customers secure their lives and businesses through comprehensive and proactive safety, health and financial services. At LähiTapiola...

November, 07

A relaxed but meaningful way to spend Christmas: the SmoothTeam simulation

The SmoothTeam simulation is a two-hour shared experience for the team. During the simulation, the team learns from each other and has fun. The simulation also provides a stimulus for further discussions and is perfect for a Christmas party or a...

October, 11

It is important to understand your own and others' natural ways of working

Founded in 2014, Dista is a pioneer in data-driven outbound sales. We currently have around 40 employees. Remote working has challenged the whole of Dista. We do hybrid work but we are mainly...

September, 08

Working life and learning - developing together

The world has opened up after the koruna, even if the pandemic is not yet over. I had the opportunity to attend and give a presentation at the annual Workplace Learning Conference held this...

September, 07

Fredrik Rönnlund: It was a pleasant surprise that SmoothTeam does not assign colours to people

Fredrik Rönnlund serves on the boards of several technology companies. He specialises in growth marketing, and participated in the SmoothTeam simulation as part of the board work of the Future Board Association of Young Board Professionals. I am sceptical about analysing people...

August, 23

Lars Svorse, LOVAK: Organisations suffer from a lack of dialogue and trust

Lars Svorse and Magnus Jonason/LOVAK, Paul Choi/Paul&Mark. Photo by: Vittra & Friends My name is Lars Svorse, and I work as a senior consultant and partner in the Swedish consultancy LOVAK....

June, 20

Denys Romanov, ImproveIT Solutions: good teamwork requires communication

ImproveIT Solutions is a Ukrainian company. We provide software development services mainly for European and US clients. The company was founded in 2017 and now we have almost 100 employees. The largest...

June, 01

Sauli Nissinen, Soldem: Knowing your teammates has a huge impact on your ability to cope at work

Soldem is a multi-purpose sales house established in 2003. We provide sales and customer service for large client companies with 250 employees. For our clients, we are a results and development-driven provider of outsourced telesales and...

May, 12

Ville Houttu, Vincit USA: Smoothteam simulations are energising

Vincit is a 600-employee company that designs and implements web services, mobile applications and embedded systems. Ville Houttu, CEO of Vincit USA, shares his experience with SmoothTeam simulations. Remote working distances Vincit...

April, 26

What are SmoothTeam simulations not suitable for?

SmoothTeam's simulations are very versatile, and we have a simulation for a wide variety of team situations. However, it is also good to be aware of situations for which our simulations are not designed. For conflict situations...

April, 14

Right Left Agency promoted corporate culture with a simulation

Right Left Agency is a digital marketing agency, and we work entirely remotely. We have experts around the world - in the US, UK, New Zealand, Philippines, Bangladesh... Most of our team is based in...

April, 05

We rolled out SmoothTeam across Jamk

Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences (Jamk) is one of the most productive and attractive universities of applied sciences in Finland, and the culture is one of encouraging experimentation. Jamk has 8 500 students and 900 staff. SmoothTeam...

March, 24

What kind of hybrid work suits our team? New simulation helps develop hybrid working practices

Many teams need new, workable solutions for their daily lives. How can you combine the best of remote and teleworking to suit your team? How to make the most of team members' strengths? How to take work practices...

March, 22

The city of Aka would prevent fragmentation with SmoothTeam simulation

Akaa is a town of 16 500 inhabitants located between Tampere and Hämeenlinna. Akaa's urban development department wanted to try a new way of developing teams remotely. The aim was to get to know better their own...

February, 21

Jukka Suvitie, PI Management School: 'I recommend the simulation to all governments

The PI Management School trains decision-makers in member-based organisations, such as cooperatives and mutual societies. We train, among others, board members and supervisory board members. Often, newcomers to the board do not have a long...

February, 15