Clever Things, Silly People. At Mito we believe that a team eager to learn is built through enablement and learning each other. A sneak peak into the serious and fun things we do in order to learn work stuff and get to know each other. Talk by Tamás Müller @ http://stretchcon.com/ 02-12-2016

1. LEARN TO EARNHow pickles help building an awesome team

2. CREATING CONTENT
Our approach
?

3. CREATING CONTENT
Our approach
bit.ly/
picklesrecipe

4. Tamás Müller
divison lead @ mito studio
www.mito.hu/studio
mito
communications agency
www.mito.hu

5. We are Mito
What we do
DATA
MINING
DEVELOPMENT
FRONT-END &
BACK-END
CONCEPT
CREATION
GRAPHIC
DESIGN
CONTENT
CREATION
SEO
& SEM
CRM & DATA
ANALYSIS
ATL
PRODUCTION
STRATEGIC
CONSULTING
SOCIAL MEDIA
MANAGEMENT
QUALITY
ASSURANCE
MEDIA
PLANNING
& BUYING
UX
RESEARCH
& DESIGN
WEBSITE
HOSTING &
MAINTENANCE

6. We are Mito
Mito Team Growth
45
90
135
180
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
140
120
96
86
60
31
16
6
170

7. www.mito.hu/studio

8. STRETCH 2016How to build and maintain high performing teams
that outlearn the competition

9. How to build a team
that’s eager to learn?

10. individual
development
• driven by the other two
• enhanced by extra
personal effort
• key to team performance
learning
each other
• informal learning
• socializing
• can be facilitated, but
not forced
learning
work stuff
• formal trainings
• learning by doing
• fundamentals / must
have learning

11. Learning each other
is the most important
!

12. colleagues
ok…
good colleagues
great!
friends
awesome!

13. Google’s Project Aristotle
Psychological
safetyDependability
Structure
and clarity
Meaning
of work
Impact
of work

14. Psychological
safety
Read each other’s emotions
and state of mind
Feel comfortable enough to
ask questions and float ideas
Share mistakes and failures
openly and constructively

15. Psychological
safety
Being friends

16. individual
development
learning
each other
learning
work stuff
learning
stuff you
have to
learn
learning
stuff you’re
into
learning to
socialize

17. It’s like school used to be! …but today.

18. • Providing
knowledge,
• enabling
personal
development
• and giving
team building
and socializing
experiences.
To have a team
that is eager to
learn,
workplaces
should
establish a
school-like
environment
for their people.

19. Tips, Practices and Tools
How we provide an enabling environment at Mito

20. !
Main principle:
Do what you really want to do.
And do it for real.

21. Wanna be
someone
else?

22. Tibi Grab0 Jokkiaccount manager account executive tech project manager

23. consultant production manager UX designer
Tibi Grab0 Jokki

24. Toolbox

25. • Professional book purchasing budget
• Conference, study trip (Amuse, Bump, OFFF), training,
online courses budget
• Fulltime in-house English teacher
• PM trainings for accounts
• Weekly Dev Tech Workshops
• Weekly SEM+Analytics Workshops
• Internal Frontend Workshops
• Outbound trainings:
• Intro
• Cooperations: XLabs, MomeID, IxD, Service Design Group
• Mito Studio
• 4 hour weekly study time
• Mito Study Group
• Mito Hackathons
book budget
conf. budget
Eng. teacher
div. workshops
Intro
4 h playtime
study group
Hackathon
Mito Toolbox
Top-down organized learning tools/events

26. INTRO

27. MITO
Hackathon

28. 4h playtime

29. • Mito Academy
• UXversity
• Creative’s Club
• Division mini trips (professional purpose, e.g.
museums, etc)
• GFX Show
• Mito Weekly
• Thematic FB groups
Mito Toolbox
Bottom-up organized learning tools/events
creative’s club
UXversity
Mito Weekly
div. trips
GFX show
thematic FB groups
Mito Academy

31. WEEKLY
Newsletter

32. Thematic
FB GROUPS

33. • Monthly Mito Nite
• Mito Office Hack Day
• Mito Trips
• Bring Your Parents Day
• Family stuff: Mito Nursery School, Santa Claus
• Division Beer Nights
• Account Picnic
Mito Toolbox
Top-down organized socializing stuff
Mito Trip
div. beer nights
nursery school
Bring Your Parents Day
Mito Nite
Office Hack Day
Account Picnic

34. MITO
Nite

35. Office
HACK
Day

36. Bring
YOUR
Parents

37. • Mr. Mito election
• Weekly Mito Soccer + Agency Kickoff
• Mito Running
• Mito Table Tennis Tournament
• Mito Fifa Cup
• Mito Trump Card game
• Mito Show-Off Club
• Crowdfunded Beer Tap
• Mito Farmer’s Breakfast
• Mito Arcade
• Mito Lan
• Mito Band
• Mito Movie Night
• Tabletop Thursdays
• Mito Pickled Cucumber Competition
Mito Toolbox
Bottom-up organized socializing stuff
Mito Running
Show Off
Agency Kickoff
Beer Tap
Table Tennis Tournament
Mito Fifa Cup
Mr. Mito
Mito Trump Card
Mito Soccer
Farmer’s Breakfast
Mito Arcade
Mito LAN Party
Movie Nights
Tabletop Thursday
Cucumber Competition

38. MR. MITO
election

39. Trump
CARDS

40. Show off
CLUB

41. MITO
BAND

42. 1ST MITO
PICKLES
COMPETITION

45. organized top-down organized bottom-up
professional learning
social learning
book budget
conf. budget
Eng. teacher
div. workshops
creative’s club
UXversity
Intro
4 h playtime
study group
Hackathon
Mito Weekly
div. trips
GFX show
thematic FB groups
Mito Academy
Mito Trip
div. beer nights
nursery school
Bring Your Parents Day
Mito Nite
Office Hack Day
Account Picnic
Mito Running
Show Off
Agency Kickoff
Beer Tap
Table Tennis Tournament
Mito Fifa Cup
Mr. Mito
Mito Trump Card
Mito Soccer
Farmer’s Breakfast
Mito Arcade
Mito LAN Party
Movie Nights
Tabletop Thursday
Cucumber Competition

46. Mito Toolbox
The $erious $ide
Mito
A Competitor Ad Agency
A Creative Agency We Love
A Really Cool Agency We Worked With
An Agency Who Knows Digital
A Quite Big and Respected Agency
600 jetskis 1,200 jetskis 1,800 jetskis uncountable jetskis

47. Enable
Let people do what they want and let them do it their way
1
2
3
Invest in fun
Foster silly things to get serious
Help the team learn each other
Facilitate colleagues becoming friends

48. bit.ly/picklesrecipe

49. THANK YOU!
Question time!
- 5 min Q&A now
- or reach out to me
@ www.muellah.com later