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Company Restructuring: HR expert Jo De Cock shares her experiences on working together with Square Circle
Getting a company restructuring right requires a lot of knowledge and skill. Why exactly is it useful to call on external expertise? Katrien Decroos, Senior Communication Expert at Square Circle, asked Jo De Cock, currently Head of HR Western Europe at H.Essers. At two other companies, she coordinated a reorganisation with the guidance of...
Rudy Coenen joins Square Circle as a partner
Rudy Coenen joins the team of Katrien Decroos, An Dewaele and Ludovic Goethals with a communication expertise forged by 20 years of experience in leading companies in various sectors such as banking, insurance, asset management, the public sector, training, energy and associations. With a career marked by diversity, Rudy has been able to...
Beyond words only : Square Circle looks at the future
Square Circle, or the house of practical expertise in management, HR and communication, has been working closely with a business world in change for 20 years. From transformation projects, strong leadership and corporate culture, to crisis prevention and crisis management; they help realise the ambitions of tomorrow's companies, each time...
Transformation and communication: when words kill projects
Victor has to announce some changes in his department. He has spent hours preparing 58 slides to explain the objectives, the new structure and the rationale for the change. In short, Victor is very satisfied with his presentation and so is his boss. On the announcement day, his employees listened to Victor. In a deafening silence. Silence is...
Barry Callebaut and Ferrero back in production. What do we learn from the chocolate crisis ?
A crisis is always the ultimate test to expose the true soul of a company. Salmonella contamination occurs frequently in Belgium but the majority never makes the news. Very occasionally a message appears in the newspaper to announce a recall. Not so with Ferrero. The core of crisis communication: VALUES! The key component of any crisis...
Entropy and disorder: the fate of all human enterprises?
She is there, everywhere, at all times. She affects your private and professional life. She is little known and little contested. Yet she consumes a lot of energy. Her name? ENTROPY.
Developing the reason for existence, the vision and the values
Antonissen Development Group is a dynamic real estate group that selects urban locations with exceptional potential and has a preference for transforming existing properties into high-quality, modern buildings that are accessible to all. The company wants to support its growth by standing out in the market with a dynamic vision of its...
How the Corona pandemic reveals your true Company Culture
Over the last 1,5 year our world has been heavily impacted in many ways by the Covid-19 pandemic. Many things that we took for granted and that are just part of the usual way we do things were all of a sudden not so obvious anymore. For Companies, this disruptive event has put enormous challenges on the table. The Covid-19 pandemic has for...
An Dewaele joins Square Circle
An Dewaele, former CHRO of Barco, is becoming a partner at Square Circle adding a vast expertise to the team to fulfill a common mission: support companies with business driven people solutions to be successful in an increasingly volatile, mobile and complex world. An has over 30 years of human resources experience in global companies, where...
Why persuasion is so difficult
In a company, persuasion is a daily necessity. Changing operating methods, launching new ideas, successfully completing transformation projects, improving quality, ensuring safety at work, selling new products to customers, successful negotiation... This often requires investing a lot of energy for a result that does not always meet...
Social Negotiations
Necessary and painful evil or laying the foundation for your future? The present economic consequences of the severe health crisis are leading to many social negotiations between the social partners in organizations. Leadership and employee representatives should aim to get most out of these social negotiations in order to do what is best for...
The contribution of professional communication in the management of restructurings
The beneficial effect of professional communication in any organizational restructuring, and especially when there are...