Connect with the Manager of the Year, Bart De Smet

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Traditionally, the new ADM year was kicked off by our chairman, Jan De Schepper. 2017-2018 is going to be a big year at ADM, and Jan started off by sharing our new ADM logo, celebrating our 20th anniversary.

This of course wasn't the only thing Jan wanted to share with our members and partners. During a short presentation he elaborated on how the new organisational model is networked with amplifiers installed everywhere in the company.  

Amplifiers apply our ‘share & connect’ value and in a proactive feedback loop while ‘making’ things happen. They tackle productivity decrease by implementing ‘collaboration’ in their teams. Simplification and de-layering help to ‘do less with more’ resulting in an increase of the fan-level. In other words; an amplifier is someone who is able help others work together, make them more productive and making them better in general.
The main task of the CEO is to cast and compose his team and make them better. His brain contains much more connections enabling him to excel as an amplifier. The amplifier shows 4 major behavioral skills: decisiveness – reliability – impact – proactivity. Our main speaker, Bart De Smet is an obvious example of an amplifier.

Next up was our main speaker; Manager of the year, Bart De Smet. During an open interview with our very own Marina De Moerlooze, Bart took the time to share his views on how to be a successful manager.

Interaction with people is the most important element in the day-to-day job of Bart. Linking the strengths of the past with the ideas of today and the vision of tomorrow creates innovative ideas. Ageas’ strength is not only in its teams but most of all in its internal challenges. The C2C (Closer to the Customer) project generated 365 ideas in only a few days. 
Employees are close to the company. This was reflected in the employee satisfaction survey with high scores for ‘happy employees’.  By the way: happiness is not doing what you like but liking what you do. Bart has surrounded himself with a complementary team and gets respect by showing it. He is very grateful to his mentors Karel Van Rompuy, Walter Van Pottelberge and Jozef De Mey.

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