avatarMika Tienhaara

Summary

ROCSOLE's first company get-together marked a significant milestone, uniting a growing team to strengthen company culture, align strategies, and reaffirm their commitment to customer-centric innovation and sustainability.

Abstract

ROCSOLE recently hosted its inaugural company get-together, bringing together a diverse team that has expanded over the past two years, with many members meeting for the first time. The event aimed to foster unity and coherence, building on the company's ability to grow, execute sales, and conduct projects remotely during the pandemic. The gathering was an opportunity to reflect on the company's identity, with employees emphasizing the importance of team strength, spirit, and a human-centric approach. The company is focused on disrupting industries by improving safety, operational efficiency, and reducing emissions, with a keen eye on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. ROCSOLE's mission is to support the most sustainable corporates and those striving to achieve sustainability, with a belief that employee-driven initiatives and a strong team are crucial to their success. The get-together included process streamlining, strategy implementation, and product training, with an evaluation session to gather feedback for future improvements. The team's dedication and passion signal the beginning of a journey towards significant industry improvements, particularly in processing and manufacturing with multiphase flows.

Opinions

  • The company values the input and suggestions from its employees, indicating a positive and inclusive culture.
  • There is a strong emphasis on the company's critical mission to the planet, which necessitates quick action and a unified approach.
  • The company believes that a strong team and human-centric approach are key to their success and ability to change customer preferences and culture.
  • ROCSOLE is confident in their unique work and international impact, viewing their 10th anniversary as the start of their journey rather than a milestone.
  • The leadership is proud of the team's engagement and is committed to continuous improvement, with plans to enhance future gatherings based on feedback.
  • The company is focused on creating shareholder value by aligning policies and future development with immediate action.
  • ROCSOLE's vision includes rocking the foundation of industries with upcoming solutions and developments, which they plan to detail in due course.

We do it For Our Customers — Our First Company Get Together

Last week we had our company get-together gathering. With the new team from various locations, it was the first one. Some of the people had not even met before. So in many ways, it was a first one. Over the past two years, we have been able to show how you can grow as a company, execute sales and projects — and still be “strangers.”

Tienhaara. Team ROCSOLE has the right momentum. Big things ahead!

Getting together has been on the top of our company wish list for a very long time. The pandemic has not made it more accessible. We have been able to work out our strategy, sales focus, and remote installations and startups during the past years — so getting together should make us even more coherent and unified?

I think it just did that.

A company is not stronger than its’ weakest link. Perhaps not, but I’m not particularly eager to talk about individuals as subjects. People are the most critical asset. Together we are building a world-class company, changing how industries work — for the better. Disruption is challenging changing paradigms in your business. Don’t try this alone.

Initiatives, activities, and changes (within companies) must be of “pull” character. I am positively surprised by how much input and employee-driven suggestions we got. Everyone wants this to happen. Perhaps I should not be surprised. We have a super-critical mission to the planet and must act on it quickly. Our customers are either in the pool of “the most sustainable corporates” or those working on getting there. The ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors are more important than ever.

What about your money? Shareholder value for the publicly-traded company derives directly from the company’s policies and future development. We need to act now.

So asking everyone — who are we? We got a fantastic response in terms of:

  • Strong team
  • Team spirit
  • Human-centric approach
  • Dreaming big
  • Changing customer preferences (some meant we are changing their culture)

For me, this resonates exceptionally well.

And we found out about solutions and developments that will infinitely rock the foundation of industries. We will detail this later, still too early to reveal.

If you follow our journey, you will know that we want to change how industries work and function to improve safety and operational efficiency and reduce overall emissions and pollution.

Some of the goals were to get the team to build down silos, integrate processes and reduce the “waste” we create in terms of efforts put into adding value. We want to simplify both our processes and products.

Who does this ultimately benefit? OUR CUSTOMERS!

We spent a week continuing our process streamlining, strategy implementation, and product training. I enjoyed it a lot. In the end, we ran a short evaluation session with everyone — what had been good? What could be improved (or with our technical team, we phrased it, what were the NCR’s — meaning the non-compliances).

Valuable for our customers (and bad for any competition) — everyone wants this to happen again! And run even more in-depth product training. What could be improved? Well, that is more to tweaks on how we organized this and how well we all had done our preparations. The outcome for the Get Together Two later this year, we have the expectations that we can improve a lot.

People are the most critical asset. We have made a lot of right moves, and the future is looking bright.

This year is our 10th anniversary; with this team, dedication, engagement, and passion, I think we are just at the start of our journey! There are so many improvements we can support within the industry — and then we talk about virtually any with processing and manufacturing dealing with multiphase flows. We will show the way, and the bridging of operational technologies with information technologies is the area where we will show our strengths.

I am proud of our team and the engagement level. We are doing some substantial and unique work internationally. We don’t stop here; this is just the beginning.

/Mika

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