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Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii
...Lisa Gill: So Edwin, you told me that every year on the 14th of February, you celebrate this thing at Fitzii called 'Valen-Teals Day'. What's that? Tell us about that. Edwin Jansen: Yeah, that's our favorite holiday of the year, Lisa - it marks the anniversa...more
...e I don't like this phrase, 'Soft Skills' - I think it belittles what I think are very crucial skills, especially in a self-managing organisation. At Fitzii, how have you guys (as you said) created spaces for people to develop some of these skills, like giving feedback in a way where it's not coming from ...more
...our Microsoft Teams, or if you had a Slack channel, then you've got to do a "#TIR" and you have to thank the person who gave you the feedback. And at Fitzii we have a 'Feedbacker of the Month' award, so whoever gave the most gifts, gets recognised with a fun award every month. And that's been an amazing w...more
...ack in all directions. So that's really interesting that you touch on that. I'm curious then how else have you transitioned the leadership culture in Fitzii for you and for others who were formerly managers? How has that process been? Edwin Jansen: Well, I like to say that going Teal is like leadership de...more
...ke, "oh, that sounds fun, everyone gets to do whatever they want!" And of course, you know, in reality, it's very different. So how do you do that at Fitzii? How do you find the right people and how do you onboard them in a way that sets them up for success in a self-managing environment? Edwin Jansen: Ye...more
...Lisa Gill: I'm curious about moving onto more of the realm of habits and processes and practices because I know at Fitzii you have your role advice process. So you mentioned there about 'Radical Responsibility' and if someone sees something rather than complaining or poi...more
...Lisa Gill: And how do you make decisions generally in Fitzii? What practices do you have for that? Edwin Jansen: Well, after reading Laloux's book we obviously started experimenting with the advice process and ...more
...ur parent company, they're called the Ian Martin group; about 150 employees in this division that we're working with. So the other manager who was at Fitzii, when we went into self-management about a year and a half ago or so, she moved over into the parent company and has been a fantastic leader there to...more
...mpany and has been a fantastic leader there to help them to organise and to start moving in this direction. And it's been such a fantastic success at Fitzii, that they decided a few months ago to actually do GDM: they did a Generative Decision Making the leadership team, and they decided to move towards a...more
...Lisa Gill: And you mentioned self set salaries there - what is the compensation model at Fitzii? And how did you develop that? Edwin Jansen: Yeah, well like I said earlier, we punted on it for a year or so. In retrospect, actually, someone asked...more
...'The Great Place to Work Survey', and actually, last year, we were really proud - we were the number two, mid-sized workplace, our parent company and Fitzii, in all of Canada. And it was so heartwarming when you read the comments and one of the questions is: "Why is this a great place to work?" And you co...more
...were experiencing as a company were kind of Green or Orange limitations that were dependent on that paradigm. What have been the biggest benefits for Fitzii in becoming a Teal organisation? Edwin Jansen: Yeah well, it's interesting. So before I came and helped to start Fitzii for our parent company, I was...more
...been the biggest benefits for Fitzii in becoming a Teal organisation? Edwin Jansen: Yeah well, it's interesting. So before I came and helped to start Fitzii for our parent company, I was the Director of Marketing at quite a large technology company in Canada and people used to joke with me that, "instead ...more
...e a feedback of culture and learning and development? And so I spent a lot of time doing all of these things. And then when later on, and we were at Fitzii and I read 'Reinventing Organisations', I realised you can't push values onto people, you can't force values onto people, you can't just because you ...more

Lisa Gill and Mark Eddleston celebrate 50 episodes of Leadermorphosis

...r really embracing those threads of wholeness and self-management and evolutionary purpose. And I think I really liked the way that Edwin Jansen from Fitzii framed it, where he said that at Fitzii they've been four years into their 'teal journey' I think, and he described these three stages of adopting se...more
...eness and self-management and evolutionary purpose. And I think I really liked the way that Edwin Jansen from Fitzii framed it, where he said that at Fitzii they've been four years into their 'teal journey' I think, and he described these three stages of adopting self-management: the first being head - th...more
... that stand out? Lisa Gill: Yeah, one fun example is two guests talking to each other: after I had Ved (Krishna) from Yash on the podcast, Edwin from Fitzii, who I mentioned, reached out to say it'd be really interesting to talk to him, and actually Matt Perez from Nearsoft in Mexico. A lot of companies w...more