{"id":2893,"date":"2021-12-06T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T16:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sw.fst.com\/magazine\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2022-03-15T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:57:45","slug":"nurturing-a-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sw.fst.com\/magazine\/en\/2021\/12\/nurturing-a-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurturing a Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One team leading together. There is no question this approach to business has a profound effect on the success of the organization. But at global corporations like Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, achieving this objective can be tricky. Different regions, cultures, languages, time zones, products and priorities can complicate communications and collaboration on a day-to-day basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies\u2019 Oil Seals Powertrain and Driveline Division (OSPD) recently hosted a global Culture Week at twelve OSPD sites. The September event was organized by the OSPD\u2019 One Team Leading Together group. The idea was to ensure that cohesion, communications and collaboration are at the forefront of the division\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team members have one overriding mission, said Connie Sandros, Vice President of Learning and Engagement within Freudenberg Sealing Technologies\u2019 Human Resources organization. \u201cWe try to make our people satisfied and happy to come to work but we also drive the needs of the business from a culture and people perspective at the global and local level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Freudenberg Group Guiding Principles were highlighted. Each day, one of five principles \u2013 innovation, value for customer, responsibility, people and long-term orientation \u2013 was explored at the site and divisional levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Employees of the global Oil Seals Powertrain and Driveline Division took part in the weeklong virtual event. In Pinerolo, Italy, Paolo Fervier, Research and Development Manager for the plant, celebrates 15 years working for Freudenberg Sealing Technologies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

OSPD employees in India, Mexico, Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Turkey and the United States took part in activities, which included videos, best project and process presentations, and photo shoots, among others. They then shared their results on Teams and in Stream. One key theme was leadership. Different employees guided their location through the activities. Each site dedicated a space for the Guiding Principle activities and for employee recognition. Videos were shown on monitors throughout the individual sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year we were very focused on the fact that we\u2019ve just been through a very difficult period of the pandemic, and it was our way to say thank to our salaried and non-salaried workforce for everything that they\u2019ve done,\u201d Sandros said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overview of action week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the theme was innovation. The centerpiece was a video contest where the different facilities shot footage of their best innovation in the last year. Videos of the best product and process, and the best video overall, were shown on lunchroom monitors in each facility and emailed to salaried workers who have email addresses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday\u2019s focus was People. The occasion was used to launch a P&D calendar for 2022 that will feature photos of people at work having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday highlighted the Value for Customer principle, with videos of each product made at every P&D site showing how they were used in vehicles. \u201cIt was just so people would understand where their work goes at the end of the day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday was the day to recognize longterm Orientation, and each locale unveiled a wall honoring the people who have been with company for five, ten, fifteen and twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, the focus was Responsibility. Each employee received a packet of seeds appropriate for the local climate and season. \u201cThe idea is they take those seeds home and plant them with their families and take pictures with their families,\u201d she said. \u201cThe idea is to make the earth just a little greener.\u201d<\/p>\n

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