{"id":313,"date":"2017-07-18T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hpbbnieuws.nl\/?p=313"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:27:02","slug":"tips-van-cyberclick-the-happiest-company-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hpbbnieuws.nl\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Tips van Cyberclick: the happiest company of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Blog van Corporate Rebels over hun bezoek aan David Tom\u00e1s van Cyberclick, entrepeneur en auteur van het boek \u201cThe happiest company of the world\u201d, april 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Practical happiness tips from our Bucket List visit to Spain<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s one of those days that begins perfectly. You wake up, take a look out of the window and your senses are cheerfully greeted with a beautiful blue sky. You feel the comforting Mediterranean breeze touch your skin and witness the rising sun beaming down on the glistening rooftops. You open the windows and hear the locals set up shop in the street below. We enjoy this awakening and decide to put on some upbeat music while we get ready for the day ahead of us. By the time we leave the apartment, we are in the perfect state of mind, ready to take on Barcelona\u2019s bustling streets.<\/p>\n<p>As the rest of the city wakes up, we wander in search of a bocadillo de jamon and a freshly brewed double espresso.\u00a0As we\u2019re in Spain, we\u2019re in search of the most basic looking bar as they are usually the ones that serve the best local food. The weather is too beautiful to stay inside, so we take our sandwich and coffee to go while we discuss the day ahead of us.<\/p>\n<h3>Meeting David Tom\u00e1s<\/h3>\n<p>Once again, there\u2019s a list of inspiring people we\u2019re about to meet on this beautiful day. One of them is our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/corporate-rebels.com\/bucketlist.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bucket List<\/a>\u00a0hero\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/corporate-rebels.com\/Heroes\/tomas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Tom\u00e1s<\/a>.\u00a0David is a Spanish serial entrepreneur and start-up mentor. He is also the author of the book \u2018The happiest company in the world\u2019; written like a novel, but with practical tips\u00a0for\u00a0creating happy companies. We\u2019re meeting David at Cyberclick; his online advertising and direct marketing company. The company is located in the WTC right in the middle of the port in Barcelona. The office has a 180 degree panoramic view on the port where yachts\u00a0and seagulls pass by regularly.<\/p>\n<p>After we introduce ourselves, David tells us he recognizes his own story\u00a0in ours. Just like us, he started working as an engineer after obtaining his engineering degree. After 2.5 years, he was fed up with the way things were organized and decided to quit his job. He then started his company Cyberclick and focused on working in a radically different way; a happier way.\u00a0Along the way their mission statement has been crafted and now reads:\u00a0<strong>\u201ccreating the happiest company in the world\u201d<\/strong>. To ensure it\u2019s not just a fuzzy, cool sounding phrase, they have implemented some practical techniques. Here\u2019s a few of them.<\/p>\n<h3>An extraordinary recruitment process<\/h3>\n<p>To ensure that all employees are a perfect fit for the organization, Cyberclick has a radically different recruitment process. Just like all companies in Barcelona, Cyberclick has a\u00a0vast\u00a0amount of job applicants. But like no other company in Barcelona, they have a special way of treating them. Here\u2019s a quick overview:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They call more than 100 job applicants for an interview by phone<\/li>\n<li>Only 3 or 4 of these are invited for a visit to the company<\/li>\n<li>They are tested by the team and the direct colleagues on: skills, personality, and behavior<\/li>\n<li>Multiple reference calls are made to previous employers<\/li>\n<li>Once selected, the applicant starts working for 3 weeks<\/li>\n<li>After 3 weeks, the team evaluates the new employee. They have a strong focus on the new employee\u2019s alignment with the company values. Every team member can use a veto during the evaluation<\/li>\n<li>After 3 months, there\u2019s another evaluation with a similar process<\/li>\n<li>Once\u00a0the employee has successfully passed all stages, he has a decision to make. He can choose to (1) take the job, or (2) not take the job and receive a 2-month bonus on top of the salary for the time worked (Up till now 30 employees had the chance to take the bonus. So far,\u00a0nobody took it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Literally reinventing the way we work<\/h3>\n<p>There\u2019s a long list that shows this is not a company like many others. As there\u2019s so much to share, for now we listed the most notable differences with traditional organizations. In later blogs, we\u2019ll come back to the practical implications of some of these innovative features.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some of the radically different approaches of Cyberclick:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The values of the company are determined by the employees themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Once a week the teams preform a stand-up in which everyone has to give an example of how they experienced one of the values during that\u00a0week.<\/li>\n<li>All\u00a0employees\u00a0can work wherever they want.<\/li>\n<li>All employees can work whenever they want.<\/li>\n<li>The employees and the teams decide everything themselves. There are no bosses, managers or supervisors.<\/li>\n<li>David\u2019s role is therefore minimized to inspire the organization and to challenge them to look for new possibilities. He stresses this with the quote: \u201cI actually don\u2019t work\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Every employee sets his or her own goals. The company goals are derived from these and have to be aligned with\u00a0the personal goals. (Quite the opposite of what happens in traditional organization)<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s no maximum amount of holidays. Holidays are not even tracked.<\/li>\n<li>When targets are reached, there\u2019s\u00a0<strong>always<\/strong>\u00a0a celebration.<\/li>\n<li>Every employee gets his own training budget and can spend it on whatever he\/she likes. Even for scuba diving or surfing. Cyberclick beliefs that as long as it\u2019s good for personal development, it\u2019s good for the company. To underline this, David refers to the following quote:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1447 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=474\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=474 474w, https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=150 150w, https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=300 300w, https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg 502w\" alt=\"Cyberclick-1\" data-attachment-id=\"1447\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hpbbnieuws.nl\/2016\/05\/25\/practical-happiness-tips-from-our-bucket-list-visit-to-spain\/cyberclick-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=474\" data-orig-size=\"502,289\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cyberclick-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=474?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/happypeoplebetterbusiness.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/cyberclick-1.jpg?w=474?w=474\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are books that every employee has to read. An example is \u201cCrucial conversations\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Every 3 months they have a book session. Every employee reads the same book and they discuss the book together during this session.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone has to spend some hours per week using their skills to support a non governmental organization (NGO). There\u2019s a special focus on NGO\u2019s that focus on the local community.<\/li>\n<li>They measure their happiness through a short daily survey. This used to be anonymous, but the employees changed this because of the high amounts of trust. The scores are discussed on a weekly basis.<\/li>\n<li>If a very unhappy\u00a0score shows up, it will be discussed immediately. Only once the problem is solved, they continue with their work.<\/li>\n<li>They work in small teams. David believes that 8-16 persons is ideal.<\/li>\n<li>They work with \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open-book_management\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open book management<\/a>\u2018. Everyone gets a training in basic financials so they understand the basics of the financials of the company. There\u2019s complete transparency on this.<\/li>\n<li>They have a profit sharing program. Above a certain profit margin, the\u00a0profit\u00a0gets divided among the employees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>In search for tapas<\/h3>\n<p>Once again we\u2019re inspired by one of our Bucket List heroes, David Tomas. But we\u2019re even more inspired by the fact that there\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0already companies that show that work can be organized (very successfully) in a radically different way. We realize this once we leave the building and are being welcomed once again by the warmth of the Mediterranean sun.<\/p>\n<p>In search for some tasty tapas, we reflect on the visit and prepare ourselves for our visit to another company that is challenging the status quo: Infojobs.<\/p>\n<p>Bron: klik\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/corporate-rebels.com\/Blog\/practical-happiness-tips-spain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hier<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Blog van Corporate Rebels over hun bezoek aan David Tom\u00e1s van Cyberclick, entrepeneur en auteur van het boek \u201cThe happiest company of the world\u201d, april 2016. 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