Karin Volo is the founder of Evoloshen, a company focused on workplace engagement and organizational development. For over 15 years, she has helped companies and individuals through transitions. Her research shows that current workplaces are disengaged, with 71% of employees being disengaged and costs of over $450 billion annually in lost productivity. However, companies that focus on engagement see 27% higher profits and 50% higher sales and customer loyalty. The presentation covers the importance of engagement and purpose, trends in technology and demographics that are changing workplaces, and the five cultural keys to creating an amazing company: teamwork, innovation, shared values and purpose, the front line is the bottom line, and continual improvement.

1. Creating An
Amazing Company
Through
Engagement & Purpose
We Believe…in a new way of doing business

2. • 15+ years working with Executive Search
• VP in the US, started up new company in Europe
• Coaching, Mentoring, Personal & Organizational
Development
• Chief Joy Bringer, Co-Founder to Evoloshen
• International Best Selling Author
Karin Volo

3. Karin Volo
On the way up after four years in horror
Happiness on the job gives good results

4.  Have helped individuals and companies
going through transitions
 Too many people are unhappy in their
work
 Wanted to help companies keep their
people instead
 Discovered a formula that we wanted to
share with others about a new way of
doing business
Why we wrote Engage!

5. – to have full attention, commitment,
enthusiasm, passion, and purpose for
your work, to be wholeheartedly
involved in and contribute positively
to an organization.
Definition of Engage:

6. •Why are certain companies doing so well?
•What are they doing differently?
Our research…

7. The Most Amazing Company Models

8. • Why Engagement Matters
• Global Trends & Disruptive Changes
• The 5 Cultural Keys to Creating a
Most Amazing Company
• Discovering Your Purpose
Today we’re going to cover…

9. Disengagement is a disease.
Complacency is a cancer.
Why Engagement Matters
Our old ways of working aren’t working
anymore…

10. • 71% of employees are disengaged ~Gallup 2013
• 84% of employees intend to actively seek a new position.
~Right Management
• Disengagement is costing companies $450-$550 billion
annually in lost productivity ~Gallup 2013
Current Workforce Situation

11. 633,000,000 hits
261,000,000 hits
67,100,000 hits
314,000,000 hits
1,275,100,000 total
What Does Google Say…

12. Disruptive Changes & Future Trends

13. 1. Technology Changes
In the 19th century,
the Industrial Age
moved workers from
an agricultural to a
production model.
In the 20th century,
we experienced
another revolution as
the Information Age
moved workers from
factories into offices.
In the 21st century, we
are in the midst of a
virtual Transformation
Age where the internet
and technology are
redefining our
workplace yet again.

14. “Change is not linear,
it’s exponential.”
~Ray Kurweil
• one billion new users online
• more than four billion new people using cell phones.
Accelerated Change

15. 174 newspapers worth of
information
4 Generations
working longer
Mass exodus
Major Value Gap
2. Demographic Changes

16. By 2014,
Millennials
(born between
1977 and 1997)
will account for
half of all the employees
in the world
~Harvard Business Review
Generation Y

17.  Lack of retention &
loyalty in a company
• 150% of the employee’s
annual compensation figure,
up to 400% for managers
 Decrease in productivity
and profits
• stress costs businesses
$300 billion a year.
What Does This Mean?

18. • economic growth
• workforce effectiveness
• employee turnover
• chronic skills gaps
Focus on the problems…

19. The Solutions – Cultural Hacking
You never change things by fighting
the existing reality.
To change something,
build a new model
that makes the existing
model obsolete.
~ Buckminster Fuller

20. Actively working with employee
engagement and recognition generates:
 27% higher profits
 50% higher sales
 50% higher customer loyalty
~Gallup 2013
Why Engagement Works…

21. Comparative Annualized Stock Market Return

22. A Company that:
 is very deliberate in how they are doing business
 has a Bigger Purpose
 leads with the WHY
 has Raving Fans
… is becoming a “Conscious” Company
by building a sustainable business that focuses
on the triple bottom line.
What is A Most Amazing Company?

23. The 5 Cultural Keys
The Front Line Is The Bottom Line
~Southwest Airlines
Goes Beyond
Teamwork

24. The 5 Cultural Keys
Innovation
and a sense of
Continually
Improving

25. The 5 Cultural Keys
Shared Values & Purpose

26. The 5 Cultural Keys

27. The 5 Cultural Keys

28. The 6 P’s Model

29. BIGGER PURPOSE
The Foundation

30. What is the difference
between a
mission and a purpose?
Discovering Your Purpose

31. Mission = What
Purpose = Why
The Golden Circle

32. Lack of engagement
is a
lack of purpose
People buy what they help create!
Lack of Purpose

33. Community
Growth
Meaning
What Motivates People Today?

34. Purpose Statement
a purposeis a
definitive statementabout
the difference you are committed to
make in the world
It is who you really are!

35. Reach the heads and the hearts of the people in ways
that both inspire people to take meaningful action and
live by the values for the growth of the business
Purpose Statement

36. One For One
“TOMS is in business to help improve
lives. We identify a global need and create
products to help address them. This
simple idea is what makes us more than a
company – we’re a movement that’s
continually evolving.”
TOMS

37. Whole Foods, Whole People,
Whole Planet
“Our deepest purpose as an organization is
helping support the health, well-being, and
healing of both people — customers, Team
Members, and business organizations in
general — and the planet.”
Whole Foods

38. Pushing Humanity Forward
“We stand for ideas and products that allow human beings to
live healthier, happier lives.”
Mindvalley

39. Freedom To Fly
“We exist to connect people to what’s
important in their lives through friendly,
reliable, and low-cost air travel.”
Southwest Airlines

40. Great things
happen from
the inside.

41. 1. Strengths & Stories
2. Collaboration & Aligned Values
3. Orient Your Calling /Who You Serve
4. Realizing Your Purpose Statement
5. Executing Your Purpose
Discovering Your Purpose – S.C.O.R.E.

42. 3 Words Question
 What are three words that
describe the essence your
company or who you are?

43. By focusing on the difference that
the organization makes in the
lives of the people it serves, an
organization can find common
ground on higher ground.
Lifting It Up…

44. It’s time to create
sustainable business
models with purpose
driven companies
that are good for the
people, planet, as
well as the profits.

45. Karin Volo
Chief Joy Bringer
Karin@Evoloshen.com
+46 (0)70 301 1968
Our Purpose: Bringing joy to the workplace
Our Vision: To make this the norm, not the exception.
www.Evoloshen.com
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