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TL;DR: What's cool about your company or what you'd like to have in your company?

I work at a small company (<50 employee) but it has some time around (I'd say almost 20 years or so).

The thing is, the boss here is cheap or inattentive or outdated or all previous options. This translates into a company stuck in the 90's management ways. Well, maybe late 90's.

So we don't have a lot of 'cool' or nice things here; and I've been thinking of coming up with a proposal of a progressive update of some things that gives us (the employees) some sort of identity.

For example, I think that small things like personalized notebooks or post-its or t-shirts give the employees some sort of sense of belonging. We don't have any of that. The only thing we have are business cards and I find them completely useless since I don't visit customers and all my communication with them is via email.

One thing I find very cool is when one employee starts in a company, in their first day they get a 'welcome kit' (example picture): notebook, pen, cup, t-shirt... It may look like stupid shit but it's way better and more motivating than the "Sit here and that's it" welcome I got when I started here.

So I wanna do a proposal of this sort of things that we can adopt, and I wanna know what do you find cool in your company or what would you like your company did so you'd feel more confortable or 'proud' (maybe that's not the word) of working there.

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  • 2
    carkeys, notebook, cellphone, thats a decent starters kit. Never had mug/tshirt/notepad/pen things, wich i'm glad actually...
  • 1
    @S-Homles-MD thats a cool idea actually to introduce, i like it
  • 1
    if you propose it, visualize it first for example with photoshop. Or talk to a designer and Brainstorm abaut what sucks at your company and what can be done against it. Ask other employees from other departments you don't deal often.

    how to change things in your company
    https://liip.ch/de/blog/...
  • 1
    @heyheni Thank you very much for the advice and the link bro! I'll definitely take them into account.
  • 0
    @Consolelog Well that was nice of their part. You can't not appreciate how hard it probably was for them picking a nailpolish for you ':-)
  • 1
    @antorqs and always do it in 3 phases.

    0. Preperation
    1. Announcement
    2. Implementation
    3. Retrospective

    Some buzzwords
    https://goo.gl/QfsYe1
    Change management - Wikipedia
    https://goo.gl/MGhYys
    Design thinking - Wikipedia

    good luck 👍
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