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Q: Downloaded apps does not start, failed with error -10810 I try to install SQLDeveloper.app that I downloaded from Oracle, but every time it gives me that error

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Users/peyo/Downloads/SQLDeveloper.app.

I have Java version 8 for Eclipse.
How can i fix this error?

A: LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error ... is often an execute permissions error.
You can text the permissions of the overall app from terminal
ls -l path/to/app
but if that looks OK, you may need to test the executable within the app
ls -l path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app
Simple example using Calculator…
$ ls -l /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  143648  3 Dec 06:43
/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

If you don't see the x execute permission, you can add it with
chmod +x path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app
There's an alternative approach which may work.
On first run, rather than double-clicking, right-click & select Open from the drop menu. This will bypass Gatekeeper's quarantine & allow it to run. It should then remember this for subsequent launches.

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Each doctor who wishes to settle in Luxembourg as a general practitioner or as a specialist is required to pay a tax in order to obtain a license to practise.
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It is possible to work as a general practitioner or medical specialist in Luxembourg without having to use the academic title 'Doctor' or 'Dr'.
However, if the doctor plans to use this title, they must register their qualification in the register of certificates.
The licence to practise will cease to be valid if the general practitioner or specialist does not start practising their profession within 2 years of the licence issuance.
The same applies to doctors who have stopped their activity in Luxembourg for more than 2 years.
General practitioners or medical specialists who wish to practise temporarily in Luxembourg must be legally established in the European Union or the European Economic Area.
The doctor must also be sufficiently proficient in German and French, and be able to understand all 3 of the administrative languages of Luxembourg.
General practitioners or specialists coming to work in Luxembourg are subject to the same rules of conduct and disciplinary conditions as professionals with established businesses in Luxembourg.


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Music returns to Morningside's Eppley Auditorium
Morningside College hosted a choir concert at Eppley Auditorium Sunday.
The performance, 'Over the Meadows of Music', is the first live performance the choir has held since the start of the pandemic.
It featured songs of hope and endurance.
Members of the Morningside Choir stepped onto the Eppley Auditorium stage once again to perform after COVID put an abrupt halt to normalcy.
"I'm proud to be the choir director at Morningside College. Especially all that we have championed this year. All that the students have gone through, all our entire college, nation, the world have gone through. To lead these students has been a complete honor, a privilege, and a joy. They're very talented and they have taken it all in stride. It's a feeling of exhilaration," said Dr. Ryan Person, Director of Choral Activities.
For sophomore Collin Adank, one emotion, in particular, comes to mind after getting back on the stage.
"Feelings of joy. So much joy. You can hear it in Eppley Auditorium, there's so much joy. You can look into the crowd, you can see all the smiles. And being able to do that for our community and the Siouxland area is a special experience," said Adank.
The choir is back to doing what it loves the most.
"I can't even think of the words. It feels great. It feels reassuring. Hopeful for the future, knowing that hey if we've got this back, what's next? One thing at a time. It feels so good to be back on stage with a family again, a choir family," said freshman and tenor Chandler Todd.
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Eye For Film >> Movies >> Emelie (2015) Film Review
Reviewed by: Jennie Kermode
"It's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it."
Emelie begins with a long shot. A car pulls up beside a park; the young woman walking there stops to offer directions. She is casually asked her name; on giving it (Anna), she is struck over the head and dragged into the car. It's a curious hit on a teenager who doesn't give the impression of being rich. Who can benefit from this? The clue is in the nature of the shot. Anna is distant from the core of the plot, incidental to those who have taken her. It's her name that's the thing. That name is given by another young woman on arrival at a middle class home. Anna, Maggie's friend. Maggie is unavailable so recommended Anna as an alternative babysitter. The name gives access to the home, the parents go out, and the trouble begins.
It begins slowly. Bedtime is nine o'clock, the parents have said; the kids have had a busy day so they should go down easily. Perhaps this is what the false Anna (Sarah Bolger) is waiting for. She plays a pretending game with the two youngest children, Sally (Carly Adams) and Christopher (Thomas Bair), telling them that pretending can let a person be anything they want to be. But she's not as good at it as she might like to think. Even when she's trying to be convincing, he petty cruelty towards Sally and her flirtation with tweenager Jacob (Joshua Rush) makes it clear that something is wrong. As she begins to suspect that they suspect, the babysitter's behaviour gets more extreme; the parents, celebrating their anniversary in a restaurant, suspect nothing, but we begin to wonder if the children will still be there when they get home.
Despite the neat framing, this isn't really a new idea. The babysitter's principal motivation is somewhat twee and rooted in poorly substantiated ideas about female function, desire and emotional fragility, but her behaviour towards Sally adds a more interesting dimension to this, suggesting deeper-rooted issues. There are hints of what Bette Davis achieved in The Nanny, creating a monster every bit as vulnerable as the children. Adams' intense performance as the bullied girl assures us that, however events may turn out this isn't the kind of experience children recover from.
Jacob, whom we first encounter when he is being asked to go downstairs and help with his brother, is torn between his instinct to run for help and the feeling that he must stay in the house to protect his siblings. Rush handles this well and is particularly good at showing us the acute discomfort a boy whose sexuality is just developing feels when pornographic fantasy threatens to become reality and the babysitter starts sitting to close. It's a subject rarely explored from a boy's perspective and it lends the film much-needed depth. Overall, the film is at its strongest as a coming of age tale, and it's likely to be most appealing to people just too young to be officially allowed to see it. The message that it's possible to be smaller and weaker and less sure of oneself than an adult but still fight back when things go wrong is a positive one which will mean a lot to young people dealing with aggression in their ow lives.
Where it does fall back on formula, Emelie is sufficiently well made to hold viewer attention and it succeeds in maintaining a degree of creepiness throughout. There's some wasted potential here but overall it's a film that horror fans will enjoy.
Emilie is available on Digital HD and VOD from Frightfest Presents, from 14 March.
Reviewed on: 08 Mar 2016
A replacement babysitter seems to have sinister intentions towards her young charges.
Director: Michael Thelin
Writer: Richard Raymond, Harry Herbeck
Starring: Sarah Bolger, Susan Pourfar, Ryan Monolopolus, Elizabeth Jayne, Dante Hoagland, Robert Bozek, Randi Langdon, Brian Mysliwy, Daniel James, Sara Kow-Falcone, Christopher Srock, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Michael Joseph Dugan, Daniel James
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Polarised America has weathered similar storms before
Former US presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton during a ceremony in Washington. Reuters
Kenneth Lasson, Tribune News Service
President-elect Joe Biden could largely avoid the quagmire of political turmoil he's about to inherit by following a thoughtful course of action. Here's a three-step plan that could pacify the entrenched partisan divides:
Step 1: Announce in advance that upon taking office he'd pardon Donald Trump and any of his potentially culpable Cabinet or staff members for misdeeds they may have committed while in government service.
As far back as 1866, the Supreme Court ruled that the pardon power "extends to every offense known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment."
But whether a president can pardon himself remains a contentious question for legal scholars. Many feel that such an action would likely ignite a constitutional crisis. "No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause," wrote James Madison in the Federalist Papers, "because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity."
Presidents have exercised their pardon power on behalf of others freely over the course of history, however, and many pardons have been blatantly political and consequently controversial.
In 1858, for example, James Buchanan pardoned the polygamous Mormons of Utah in exchange for their accepting US authority over the state. Similarly, in 1865, Andrew Johnson pardoned thousands of Confederate troops willing to pledge allegiance to the federal government. In 1977, in his first day in office, Jimmy Carter gave a blanket pardon to over 200,000 young men who'd left the country to avoid serving in Vietnam. In 2001 Bill Clinton, on his last day in office, pardoned two of his major donors (Marc and Denise Rich) and newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In 2017, Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, who'd sent WikiLeaks thousands of classified war documents. Just last year Trump pardoned four men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in 2007. Promising to pardon Trump, while controversial, would assure his supporters that the outgoing president is not a target and help calm tensions. Step 2: Call out the military to quickly and effectively distribute the already widely available COVID vaccine. Biden would significantly boost American's morale by genuinely helping them face the pandemic head on.
Step 3: Stem fears that he'd bankrupt the economy by rolling out some easily understood and doable stimulus packages.
The country would likewise be invigorated were the president-elect's proposed economic stimulus plans to succeed; so would a healthy housing market. A number of financial gurus suggest that both are realistic possibilities.
All of this underscores what's right with America. Few other nations are as addicted to self-scrutiny, self-criticism and self-realization. What other people are engaged in such constant and impassioned discourse on the nature of liberty and democracy, where all are equally entitled and enabled to say their piece without fear of governmental repression or repercussion?
Polarised as we may be at the moment about Trump, we've weathered similar storms before. After World War II, Harry Truman saw a country "built on courage, imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." In the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln dreamed "of a place and time where America will be seen as the last best hope of earth." George Washington unabashedly praised his countrymen following the Revolution: "Your love of liberty, respect for the laws, habits of industry, and practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness."
Today's common folk understand that "Making America Great Again" is mere sloganeering. To them the country has always been a beacon of get-it-done democratic values.
The task before Biden is to keep it that way — to recognise America not only as a place of eternal paradox, but also of perpetual promise.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden is trying to reassure voters. Like former President Obama, he is promising that "If you like your health plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it." Don't bet on it. Some presidential candidates support directly outlawing private health plans, and replacing them with a single-payer, government-run health plan.
A 'Capitol' breach of democracy. What follows next?
It took 159 years, but the Confederate battle flag finally flew in the United States Capitol on Wednesday night as a mob of men and women marching behind it smashed through windows, assaulted police officers, and terrorised members of Congress in hopes
Biden had a chance to talk about guns in good faith. He failed
The horror of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have led to calls for more gun control legislation. And while most of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have mentioned such legislation in passing up into this point, former vice president Joe Biden has upped the ante with an op-ed in the New York Times.
America has emphatically shown the world 'who we are'
"This is not who we are!" It's a cry that reverberates around America with every Trump malfeasance, with his every flash of the white power symbol. It's the plaintive chorus of decent Americans: heartfelt, genuine and utterly deluded. America has always shown the world exactly "who we are". The only ones who


TEL AVIV, Israel — The entire country watched live Thursday as Israel's first lunar mission, Beresheet ("Genesis"), prepared to land.
With 13,000 meters to go, halfway through descent, the control room lost contact with the little spacecraft. It rebooted the ship and restarting the main engine, prompting cheers.
But it was too late; the main engine had failed to fire for long enough to control the descend. Beresheet landed too quickly; in other words, it crashed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, newly-re-elected to an unprecedented fifth term, was in the audience. He was asked to say a few words — an almost impossible task. No politician wants to speak at a crash, to be linked somehow with a failure.
Yet Netanyahu took the microphone. He turned to the audience, shrugged, and said: "If at first you don't succeed, try again." He vowed that Israel would return to the moon in two to three years, and complete the mission.
Netanyahu's perfect, off-the-cuff response shows why he was re-elected, defying the media, the "deep state," and the exit polls. He is able to connect the aspirations of Israelis to a broader mission, to the world in general and beyond. In Netanyahu's own resilience — his comeback from political defeat in the 1990s, his stand against Barack Obama's hostile administration, his fight against spurious corruption charges — he embodies something of the Israeli character.
The Israeli moon mission was the result of a largely private sector-driven initiative, and partnerships with American companies like SpaceX. Netanyahu is the champion of both elements. More than any other Israeli leader, he has been responsible for the long-term reform of Israel's economy away from statism and toward free-market innovation. And more than any statesman in Israel's history, he has reached out to the U.S., speaking directly to the American people.
There will be howls of protest from those who claim that the Trump administration's decision to keep Barghouti out of the country is an assault on free speech and academic freedom.
How ironic: the radicals who want to exclude Israelis from trade, from academia, and even from competitive sports demand now find that they themselves are boycotted. It is the perfect response to a campaign that does not actually seek to help Palestinians, but merely to damage Israel.
For nearly two decades, ever since the disastrous United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, Barghouti and others have tried to cast Israel as an "apartheid" state, encouraging the "boycott, divestment, sanctions" (BDS) movement to isolate and perhaps destroy it.
And yet Israel has survived — and thrived. The key has been innovation: a new security barrier (or "wall") that uses high-tech sensors to keep suicide bombers out of Israeli cities; the Iron Dome missile defense system — another joint Israeli-American partnership — to stop Palestinian rockets from hitting Israeli civilians; and new space technology that has catapulted this tiny nation of some seven million people into the forefront of human ingenuity and exploration.
Israel's opponents console themselves with political victories. The election of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), the latter Palestinian-American, has brought a new cohort of anti-Israel left-wingers into the halls of the U.S. Congress. Omar, a BDS supporter, has also secured a place on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the Democrats' emerging ideological leader, empathizes strongly with their cause.
The radical campaign against Israel has come with a rise in antisemitism against Jewish students, almost all of it driven by the left.
These are real threats to the long-term U.S.-Israel alliance, whose results will be evident the next time a Democratic administration takes office in the White House. The current field of Democratic presidential candidates almost seem to be competing with each other to offer anti-Israel statements and to condemn the Netanyahu government for existing.
And yet Israel thrives. While its enemies aim rockets at Israeli cities, Israel rides rockets to the moon.
Long ago, Israelis decided not to let their fate or well-being be determined by their enemies — or their own failures. There is a lesson in that for Americans — and for the whole world, especially for people with histories of persecution. In that, Israel's lunar mission, while unsuccessful, is not just an achievement for the Jewish state, but all of humanity.


Situated at the heart of Puerto del Carmen, Rocas Blancas Apartments offer family-friendly accommodation at a budget. Facing the beautiful Mediterranean, the apartments are a step away from a host of shops, bars and restaurants, thereby providing you with ample leisure and entertainment opportunities. Comprised of one and two bedroom apartments, some of which face the sea, the hotel offers comfortable accommodation without costing you a fortune. The apartments also come with an a-la-carte restaurant, a solarium, private terraces and a year-round swimming pool. Guests can hire car and go on excursions and day trips to explore the beautiful island of Lanzarote. This apartment complex is the perfect choice for travellers who like to design their own holiday rather than spend hard-earned money on expensive curated holidays.
Just a short distance away from the beach and the promenade, this apartment complex is located at the heart of Puerto del Carmen. The nearest airport is Lanzarote International Airport, which is situated at a distance of 8.7 km from the beach resort.
The apartment complex consists of one- and two-bedroom accommodations. The apartments are quite large and airy with splendid sea views. The consist of bedrooms, en-suite bathrooms and well-equipped kitchen spaces, where you can cook your own meals. You have your own private terrace to enjoy the summer sun and gaze at the expansive sea outside. Each apartment comes with plasma TVs and in-room safes.
There is an a-la-carte restaurant in the complex, which takes care of your culinary needs. You can also rustle up tasty dishes in your own kitchen or go out for dinner at the nearby restaurants, followed by drinks.
The apartment complex is the perfect place for a fun-filled family adventure. A short walk will take you to the beach, where you can spend the whole day lounging under the summer sun. There is an outdoor pool open year round within the complex. For serious golfing enthusiasts, the nearest golf course is only 10 km from the hotel.


It's no secret that starting and maintaining a business takes a lot of courage, foresight and resilience. Being an entrepreneur isn't for the faint of heart. Yet, the opportunity still calls to many of us, and we continue to answer that call. Why?
For some, it's the chance to create something of our own, for others, it's the promise of time, location and financial freedom. Whatever the case, it's important for each of us to know our "Why." The Why will keep us inspired and motivated when things are less than ideal, and when quitting seems to be the best idea.
As I've stated before, your business and your brand are about more than selling products and services to the public. It's a reflection of who you are, what you believe and how you want to show up in the world. After all, people don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. Your business is your hopes and dreams manifested, your imprint, your legacy. It's inextricably tied to the real you, and as you pour your soul into building this legacy, you know this to be true: your business can't grow if you don't. The path of the entrepreneur is one of adventure, discovery and mastery. But it's also one of self-awareness and self-actualization. And so, because you are the foundation of your business, you must put self care first. It's non-negotiable.
How are you treating yourself? With patience, kindness and compassion, or a lack thereof? I guarantee, however you feel about you, will manifest itself and show up in your business. Not fully embracing your body shape? That photo shoot for your rebranding may not radiate the confidence you were hoping. Not sure you can speak your truth (about your journey, products, etc.) because there may be some naysayers out there? Then your video may not have the high vibe, inspirational tone you intended. Had one misstep with handling a customer service matter that you can't forgive yourself for? Then other customers may take advantage of you in the future.
When we don't treat ourselves well, I believe this is for one reason: we've forgotten how amazing we truly are, with or without the entrepreneur label. Yes, we're all badasses! We're walking miracles with a bad case of amnesia. I found a very effective, and timely, reminder in Jen Sincero's book, "You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Live an Awesome Life." It's an incredible book full of humor, truth and light to show the way back to the authentic You. Click here to watch today's Youtube video, and see why I highly recommend this book.


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Insecurity has got the best of me
As a performer, I've recently been exploring stand-up. This is in large part due to Chicago and a class called the Feminine Comique. I discovered this all female class through a Reader article on local stand-up and Fem Com creator, Cameron Esposito. Now taught by the hilarious Kelsie Huff, this class is amazing.
My graduation show was awesome. My set received a lot of laughs and an audience full of friends supported me. A handful of positive open mic's later and my long dormant creativity was back and ready to find its next manifestation.
I want to write and perform a solo show; I want to collaborate; I want to do a web series; I want to produce a show to showcase other female talent.
I'M SO FUCKING INSPIRED!
Then I went to Cole's and bombed. In front of Cameron and all the other cool lady comics I want to like me.
Comedy Sportz – same. This time in front of Kelsie and Kristin Clifford.
My set at The Kate's was well received but sloppy…erratic…
That was January 28 and I haven't performed since.
What am I so afraid of that I don't even want to walk into the room? Why do I all of a sudden feel like I am the new girl in the cafeteria with no one to sit with?
I'm too normal. I'm not interesting enough. I'm too pretty. My hair is too long. I'm just another straight girl whining about boys. I'm not as cool as the gay girls with their side mullets and leather jackets. The girls who I long to be accepted or at least respected by. I'm too old. I don't want to spend all night at the bar hanging with 23 year olds who I can't help but be jealous of because they've already figured it out where as I am just discovering this part of myself. This part of myself that, at 33, feels like it's too late. And, I don't want to make jokes or try to make you laugh. I want to make you think. I want to talk about shit that pisses me off. I want to call your attention to stuff that is idiotic, annoying, or just plain fucked up. Sometimes it's funny; sometimes it's not.
Because, the truth is, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm just trying to be real.
And, that shit is scary as hell.
February 20, 2012 February 20, 2012 by popgoesalicia Categories: UncategorizedTags: chicago, FemLab, ladies i love, stand-up	3 Comments
Reimagining Girlhood
"We seek to go beyond 'girl power' as a marketing slogan and to engage in discourses that allow girls, scholars, and activists to become allies in creating a world that is respectful of female youth." Letter to Participants, Reimagining Girlhood: Communities, Identities, Self-Portrayals, SUNY- Cortland, 2010
This weekend on the campus of SUNY Cortland scholars, activists, authors, and artists from a diverse range of disciplines and representing 14 countries, gathered to participate in the Reimagining Girlhood Conference. SUNY colleagues Caroline Kaltefleiter, a former Riot Grrrl and current Girlhood scholar, and Colleen Kattau, organized the three day event with the goal of "initiating innovative directions in Girls' Studies and to encourage collaborative work across non-profit agencies, activist groups, and academic institutions." Highlights included panels such as "Girls, Violence and Peace: Global and Local Perspectives," "Fine Tuning the Politics of Girls Rock Camp," "Re-signifying Girl On and Off the Web," artistic performances and interactive workshops, and a dialogue fueled presentation by Keynote Speaker, Sharon Mazzarella.
Girlhood Studies is a relatively new discourse within academia but for those of us in the field it is a site of exploration deeply entrenched in our personal and political self-narratives. I began researching girlhood out of a personal desire to more clearly understand my own experiences and how they were relevant to my participation in the world. For me, academia has always served as a site for biographical exploration – theory doesn't mean much without practice. I clearly remember the moments in my life when it became apparent to me that I was a girl; socially coded and culturally expected to perform gender appropriate behaviors regardless of my personal desire to express myself. For the past ten years, both in and out of the academic realm, I have struggled to legitimize my research, my values, and my experience of being "girl." This is why it was so invigorating to enter a space where I was not only validated but also recognized, supported and encouraged.
As Mazzarella eloquently articulated, there is a significant difference between Girlhood Studies and the more traditional studies of girls. The latter, rooted in a traditional research process, pathologizes girlhood and "constructs girls only as vulnerable and only as needing adult intervention." In contrast, Girlhood Studies posits girls as active agents of their own accord and provides a space for researchers, activists and allies to engage a dialogue about the diverse experience of girlhoods via real girls' lived experience. It is inclusive, malleable and specific to the female embodiment of youth and its multiple expressions. Director of The School of Communication Studies at James Madison University and one of the most prolific voices in the Girlhood Studies community, Mazzarella's address offered a reminder of how the term "girl power," originally coined by the Riot Grrrl movement, has been co-opted as a marketing tool to lure a young generation of female consumers. In order to evolve this work both in and out of the academy, Mazzarella encouraged the audience to resurrect girl power in a way that is "true and authentic to the experience of all girls."
Indeed, the most uniquely signifying element of Girlhood Studies is the inclusion of girl's voices – in the dialogue, in the research and, most importantly, in the development of action. A primary example of this inclusion was enacted during the conference by Mary Celeste Kearny and Cynthia Sarver who hosted a Participatory Media Workshop inviting local middle and high school aged girls to work together creating original films. Kearney, well-known for her groundbreaking research "Girls Make Media," and Sarver, an English Literacy professor, are grad school buddies re-united by their shared passion to encourage girls' activity behind the camera while providing an innovative model for collaboration. Mission accomplished. After being interviewed by one group whose film was entitled "Inner Beauty," I asked one of the girls how it was going. "Great!" she exclaimed, "We're like a little family."
There is a tangible energy that radiates in a room full of women inspired by memories of their own girlhood and connected by the desire to manifest their experiences and understanding into support for the next generation of women. Introducing the filmmaker's final project, a teary –eyed Sarver cited her friendship with Kearney as a site where scholarship and real life connect. Admitting that she was reluctant to attend due to the overwhelming responsibilities of her administrative position, Mazzarella turned to me over dinner Saturday night and lamented, "Now I don't want to go home."
October 23, 2010 November 1, 2010 by popgoesalicia Categories: UncategorizedTags: FemLab	1 Comment


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imc around the world: Why personal encounters and intercultural exchange are crucial for new work
A very special journey on the occasion of our 25-year anniversary
Rewriting the way we learn for 25 years – A milestone in the history of imc and a reason to celebrate properly. However, we wanted to celebrate more than just our success. We wanted to leverage this occasion to unite our team across the world. Realising our new work model, what we care about the most is our employees.
Bringing the positive brand vibes from our headquarters to all our locations and bringing our employees together is not an easy feat, given that some teams are thousands of miles apart. We still embarked on this journey regardless and realised one thing above all: personal encounters, positive feelings and emotions are crucial for New Work.
Come and experience some of the highlights with us! Join our journey from Saarbrücken through Australia to Singapore.
Remote work is not the be all and end all
"100% flexible but not 100% remote." We declared this our motto at the beginning of the year when our hybrid model was launched. While we pride ourselves in the flexibility we offer to work from home, we still value the connection to the office and to our company highly. Thus, the invitation to our company's anniversary is a welcome occasion to look back at these past 25 years together and celebrate them.
For our European teams, our headquarters in Saarbrücken were an ideal destination, offering a perfect place for exchange, networking and celebrations. Especially after the corona pandemic, we wanted to seize this opportunity to bring many of our teams together again. For many employees, it was the first time they met (again) after more than two years.
They were beyond excited. Being able to meet colleagues from other locations in person literally caused euphoria. "What a party!" Alison West, Strategic Pre-Sales Consultant, exclaimed. "We were looking forward to this event, and it did not disappoint. Being able to put a face to the names we were very familiar with lifted the atmosphere to new heights. It was very noticeable how much everyone appreciated the opportunity to spend time together. I'm already looking forward to the next event."
At the end of the day, the overriding conclusion was: Remote work makes many things easier, but personal encounters are invaluable.
Good vibes only – Welcome down under
During our visit of our Melbourne location, we could not help but acknowledge just how important it is to come together on site, spend breaks together and hold in-person meetings in the conference room. Sven R. Becker, Member of the Executive Board, and Kerstin Steffen, Director Brand Strategy, personally embarked on a journey down under with the mission to spark intercultural exchange. The result? Two weeks packed with a wealth of experiences: personal encounters, inspiring discussions, intercultural exchange, workshops and team building.
With so many positives, it was not easy picking out the highlights. While the office redesign was incredibly exciting, the Team Day created around the company anniversary lifted spirits to new heights.
Jordan Wolley, Pre-Sales Consultant, shares the team's take on the visit: "Sven and Kerstin joining our team in Australia gave us a huge energy boost! Taking on board the knowledge and the experiences they shared, we are determined to show the world what imc Australia is all about and the role we play in bringing the best learning technologies in the world to our market. I can't wait for our next opportunity to work together!"
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Intercultural exchange is crucial for new work
Overflowing with positive energy and inspired by new ideas and learning experiences, Kerstin and Sven left for the next stop of their journey: Singapore. At our Asian location, the visit focused on branding, team building, networking and cultural exchange.
After the visit, Sven R. Becker concluded: "While travelling to the different locations we were reminded that maintaining intercultural contacts is of great importance to us as an international organisation. When it comes down to it, that's exactly what we are: we share the same desires and goals."
Kerstin Steffen adds with emphasis: "Organisational development and especially new work also require intercultural skills, as well as respect for people and their culture. That is why the exchange between our countries was particularly important. It is fundamental for our business success. We must leverage our diversity and find common ground to achieve the best results possible."
Now, the success story does not end there. Further activities have already been planned in Singapore to enable even more successful collaboration as a team. We can't wait to tell you more about it!
Our conclusion: Personal encounters and positive emotions are invaluable
Our visit to Singapore marks the end of our tour of the imc locations for this year. What did we get out of it? We utilised these past weeks and months to go beyond celebrating our 25-year company history with our teams across the world – we built bridges together.
The insights we gained will be collated and analysed to help us realise positive changes. "From a personal and cultural perspective, this journey was immensely enriching," Kerstin Steffen sums up the visits to Melbourne and Singapore. "Digitalisation is a great enabler for many things in our global environment. It virtually removes boundaries between countries and time zones. Yet, when changes are implemented – as is the case with new work – personal encounters, positive feelings and emotions are crucial for active change design. This is why I am extremely grateful that the local teams were open to this exchange. We learned a lot from each other."
Yet, when changes are implemented – as is the case with new work – personal encounters, positive feelings and emotions are crucial for active change design.
Kerstin Steffen
Director Brand Strategy
While imc is looking back on a fabulous and exciting journey, there is still a lot to do. We are now embarking on the next 25 years of our success story with great inspiration, new ideas and huge motivation.
New work at imc: Shaping the work culture of tomorrow
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Choosing Where We Work: More Space for Creativity with New Work
We are asking: After eight months of hybrid working, we wanted to know how New Work has changed the everyday working lives of our employees.
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I' ve been working as a permanent member of the imc Marketing & Communication Team since 2021. The mix of creative content creation, social media and online marketing activities excites me the most about my job.
My goal is to inspire people with creative and innovative content and to make the imc brand more tangible.
My passion besides my job? Travelling a lot and discovering the world. I am always happy to receive feedback or suggestions at Doreen.Hartmann@im-c.de!
Doreen Hartmann
Junior Marketing and Communication Manager
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A Whole Month Dedicated to Health
Preventive Wellbeing for a Healthy Workplace
imc Cares: Health Awareness Month at imc
Time to talk about health! Here at imc, August was all about preventive wellbeing and mindfulness. We all know the importance of mental and physical health, but that doesn't seem to stop us from losing sight of what's truly good for us and forgetting to look after ourselves. So, we decided it was time to try something different.
Everyone at imc was invited to spend a month exploring various options and offerings for staying active and looking after their own (mental) health and wellbeing. These included a wide range of inspiring talks as well as various activities that promote active and healthy lifestyles. It was an amazing month, so we've put together this recap of the main highlights and feedback.
Good health in the workplace is more than just a nice-to-have
Health and wellbeing are about our mental state – how we're feeling, and how well we are able to cope with our working day. That's why we believe it's important to work on our mental health and wellbeing in the workplace on a regular basis – and not just when we're having problems. So important, in fact, that in August we launched a comprehensive health awareness initiative. That's in addition to the recently introduced online platforms voiio and My Seven Steps and regular health tips and recommendations.
imc HR manager Sarah Pitzius explains why this month meant so much to us: "My colleagues and I in HR felt it was important to put the spotlight on the health of our employees and health in general. The idea of having a wide range of formats was so that each employee could select live sessions with external providers of their own choosing and hence find out about the kinds of services available, so that they could take advantage of helpful offerings like yoga sessions or workshops and talk with other employees about health issues."
Short and sweet: Ideas and tips from experts from around the globe
To focus in greater detail on topics like work-life balance, stress management and dealing with challenges, we invited both external speakers and members of our ambassador crew to give virtual live presentations. These experts from around the globe shared their knowledge and spoke from personal experience in a series of brief online sessions, giving the participants handy hints and ideas to try out for themselves.
Tyson Priddle was among the participating brand ambassadors. He explains why mental health is something worth investing in: "Thanks to my own personal experience and many conversations I've had with friends and acquaintances, I'm passionate about (mental) health. I believe that education and fostering open and honest dialogue about mental and emotional wellbeing are essential to maintaining good health." And on the subject of health at work: "Given that we spend such a lot of time at work, we really need to get better at supporting each other and looking out for early signs that team members or colleagues might be experiencing difficulties."
One of the external speakers said something highly memorable that sums this up rather well. He said we should all have the courage to ask our colleagues: "How are you? How are you, really?".
How are you? How are you, really?
Stay fit! Keeping fit and active at work
We all find it a struggle at times to fit regular exercise into our daily routine, so the addition of voiio to our employee benefits programme here at imc several months ago has been a big help. For August, we instituted a shared active lunchbreak to raise awareness of this platform's benefits and many offerings. These include brief active movement sessions, which is how we all came to spend 15 minutes of our lunchbreaks doing neck and back exercises.
Also beneficial to our health are the "Flow & Focus" yoga sessions run by sales consultant Katharina Kunz. These sessions are held at regular intervals throughout the year, but in August Katharina delivered them every Wednesday – an employee coaching employees. "Sometimes we forget how beneficial a few minutes of controlled breathing and mindful movement can be when we are feeling stressed and unfocused," Katharina says. "My aim with the 'Flow & Focus' sessions is to help my colleagues with this and enable them to consciously build this important time out into their schedules."
There was also a mini smoothie bar, organised by one of our employees. Our lunchtimes were all the better for her homemade rock melon-and-pineapple and spinach-and-celery smoothies. Delicious and bursting with goodness.
Collective help through local initiatives
While it's important to look after our own health, we also need to be prepared for situations where bad things happen, causing others to become dependent on us for help.
One such situation, which may be thrust upon any one of us at any time, is when we are called on to provide first aid. Here, proper training is key to being able to respond swiftly in a medical emergency. That's why we organised a first aid course at our headquarters – so that anyone who wanted to could brush up on their skills.
Sometimes saving a life is a collective effort. Donating blood is a case in point, and so, in Melbourne and on the other side of the planet in Saarbrücken, our teams made time in their schedules to attend one of the blood donation slots on offer.
And the verdict? Let's do it again!
For HR manager Jennifer Wilhelm, Health Awareness Month was a resounding success: "Our efforts have borne fruit. We have seen a marked increase in user numbers on voiio. And the feedback from the teams has been very positive, particularly the feedback on the workshop formats, so we will definitely be organising these sorts of special events again."
Our aim going forward is to keep health and preventive wellbeing on the agenda. This won't be a one-off campaign. We want to keep these important issues at front of mind with our employees, and to that end we plan to initiate various campaigns in the future. We are working towards this awareness goal with our Inspire sessions and with various infographics containing useful tips and recommendations. We are also looking at new leadership programmes to get our leadership personnel on board and help make them more mindful of these important issues.
And the feedback from the teams has been very positive, particularly the feedback on the workshop formats, so we will definitely be organising these sorts of special events again.
Jennifer Wilhelm
New initiatives for (Mental) Health and Happiness at imc
Mental health is more important than ever: we show what new approaches we are adopting to promote contentment and health at imc.
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Is New Work Working?
How our employees' daily routines have changed after eight months of hybrid work
Home office or co-working space? Early riser or late sleeper? Lunchtime workout or more family time? New work has given us a lot of choice about how we structure our working day, with flexibility increasingly becoming the new normal.
Our experience here at imc is that people need a work environment that motivates, inspires, and enables them to perform to their best. They need a place of work that allows free rein for creativity and space for new ideas. Everyone has different needs, so work routines need to allow flexibility.
Enter hybrid work. Having launched our hybrid work model at the start of the year and given our employees flexibility in their location and hours of work, we thought now would be a good time to pause, take stock and find out what's changed. Are our employees benefiting from the new work model? What work locations do they find best for creativity? What other changes would they like to see? In our quest to find answers we asked four of our employees about their experience of hybrid work so far.
Suwhathi Sutheswaran
Job | Hosting Engineer
Works in | Saarbrücken
With imc since | 2021
Suwhathi Sutheswaran: Setting each day up for success with positive morning rituals
How has your working day changed since the introduction of hybrid work?
Since the introduction of hybrid work, we've had the freedom each day to choose our location of work, which I really like. We no longer have to go in to the office every day, or for that matter, work from home all the time.
Your preferred work location is ...
At home, definitely. I like working from home because I live almost 35 km from our office in Saarbrücken. It means I don't have to get up early to catch a bus and train to work.
What's your secret to productivity and creativity in the new work model?
My secret is to set each day up for success with positive morning rituals. Plan you day, be smart and set yourself deadlines that you can actually keep. Take regular breaks and be sure to reward yourself for what you have achieved.
What would you like to see happen going forward?
I'd like for the new work model to continue as it is, with the option at some point, perhaps, of working a four-day week.
Adam van Winden
Job | Graphic Designer
Works in | Melbourne
Adam van Winden: Little things that add up to a big improvement
Has there been any change to your working day since the introduction of hybrid work?
Yes, my stress levels are down. There's a whole lot of seemingly little things that all add up to a big improvement in quality of life. Things like reduced travel time, not always having to make my lunch for the next day, and just the ability to attend to personal matters during working hours. They all make a big difference. I now feel happier and more relaxed thanks to the reduced logistical run-around and the ability to work stress-free from home and structure my working day in a way that works for me.
Home. I'm much more relaxed at home. I can have music playing while I work, and I like taking short yoga breaks throughout the day and having fresh air and natural light. I don't really like the air-conditioning and artificial light at the office.
And what's your secret to productivity and creativity in the new work model?
For me, it's important to reward myself with breaks during the day and spend time outdoors. That helps hugely with my productivity and creativity. This ability to tailor my work routine to my needs means I'm much happier and more relaxed.
Hand on heart now, what do you like best about the new work model?
The ability to sleep later in the morning.
Jessica Kliesch
Job | Instructional Designer
Works in | Freiburg
Jessica Kliesch: How planting virtual trees can help you stay focused in your work
In what way has the introduction of hybrid work changed your working day?
Hybrid working simply wasn't an option in my last job, so it's been a completely new experience for me. I've noticed that I feel more motivated about my work and more relaxed.
What is your preferred work location?
That depends on the kind of work I'm doing. If I'm just writing concepts or copy, looking for ideas, or setting up appointments with customers, then home, definitely. But if I have meetings, or need to finalise projects or meet deadlines, then I prefer to go to the office.
Do you have any tips for increased productivity and creativity in the new work model?
I find the app "Forest" great for motivation and focus. You can plant cute little trees, but they only thrive so long as you resist the urge to check your phone. I also recommend always keeping a notepad handy so you can jot down ideas whenever they occur to you (even if you don't actually need them right there and then). And if you're working from home, you should make time to chat to a colleague at least once a day!
For me, one benefit of working from home is that I can pace back and forth through around apartment when I'm solo brainstorming. I could do that at the office too, I suppose, but at least here I'm not disturbing anyone.
Is there anything we could improve? Anything else you would like to see going forward?
I'd like to see the hybrid work model stay. The positives outweigh the negatives, in my view, and my sense is that imc is moving with the times.
Eric André
Job | Software Architect Web Applications
Eric André: Working exclusively from home? No thanks!
Eric, what has changed in your working day since the introduction of hybrid work?
Not a lot, actually, because in my last job I lived so far away from the office that I worked from home exclusively. Having said that, the imc hybrid model works better for me in one key respect: where online meetings were once the only option for direct social contact with colleagues, the introduction of the new work model means I can now meet up with colleagues onsite whenever I want to or whenever it makes sense to do so. In hindsight, I would even go so far as to say that working from home exclusively soon loses its appeal. There's no social contact and no spontaneous interaction – unless you set up meetings specially to make it happen.
Your preferred work location is...
My patio, where I can look out into the garden.
What ways have you found to improve your productivity and creativity? Has the hybrid model helped with this?
I've always done best when I follow set routines in my working day, and that's especially the case when working from home. I need movement and fresh air in order to think clearly. One thing that's definitely helped with my productivity and creativity is the freedom to follow my own biorhythm: I work when my mind is fresh. When I start to feel drained, I can recharge my batteries by going for a walk in nature or just taking a short break and relaxing. I didn't have this kind of autonomy in my previous nine-to-five office jobs. I would even say the change to hybrid working has made me more productive.
What do you like most about the new work model?
I really appreciate the trust that imc is showing in all its employees by offering such a model. I've also noticed that mental health means a lot more than just initiatives and seminars – I like the fact that it's actively supported here.
Thank you all for your candour and for sharing your insights!
Mental health is more important than ever: we show what new approaches we are taking to promote contentment and health at imc.
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In-House Events and Corporate Learning: A Winning Combination?
Corporate learning and fun events don't go together, right? Wrong! We have summarised the most inspiring formats with added value for the learning culture.
Learning Together, Sharing the Moment
Rethinking our in-house events in the age of hybrid work
Corporate learning and fun events don't go together, right? Wrong! They absolutely do, because learning with and from one another is the most natural way of acquiring new knowledge. Add a little entertainment to the mix, and you're learning without even knowing it.
With the adoption of our hybrid work model, it was time to think up new ways of making our events truly global and bringing teams together across national borders. The new event formats had to be interactive, entertaining and capable of being held physically, remotely or in hybrid form. We wanted new paradigms that would allow us to get together for shared occasions, unconstrained by national borders. Mission accomplished! We succeeded in creating new events that are huge fun and allow us to learn without feeling like we're learning.
What follows is a round-up of our favourites – formats that enhance our learning culture while being immensely entertaining.
The imc Learning Festival: From Spanish courses to learning with GIFs
One format we're especially proud of is our hybrid Learning Festival. Our employees set the programme themselves – in much the same way as a BarCamp. Anyone can give a presentation on a favourite topic, and the attendees are free to pick and choose which sessions to join. Streamed and moderated from our headquarters, the individual sessions run on Microsoft Teams so that employees from across various locations can get together, share ideas and learn from one another. The point is that the members of a team don't necessarily all have to be physically at the same location in order to meet up. The flexibility provided by the hybrid work model means employees are free to decide whether they want to organize a get-together at a particular location or hold the event in entirely virtual form.
While a colleague hosted an innovative session on 'Learning with GIFs', Senior business consultant Natalia Gonzalez, offered an interactive online Spanish session that yielded valuable cultural insights, not to mention a few handy Spanish phrases that employees can use on their next holiday abroad. "I love being able to share a little about my Mexican culture, and it was great to see how interested my colleagues were in learning something about other cultures – and how much fun they had doing it", she says. "I'm already really looking forward to the next Learning Festival."
This new format is all about sharing knowledge and learning together. It sheds light on new possibilities for informal, festival-style learning.
Breakfast, lunch or after-work party? Social learning with a new twist
Living and discussing diversity and inclusion in our company is the right thing to do and is extremely important. A few years ago, we started running various special events to mark Diversity Day and raise awareness of these important issues. This year, the organising team went a step further and came up with something extra-special for our Diversity & Inclusion Week. In an event themed 'imc goes around the world', each of our offices organised its own unique style of local get-together.
In Freiburg, for example, the team organised a belated traditional 'May Day hike', while the London office held a shared breakfast. "Each team member brought along a culinary specialty typical of their national cuisine", says Ramona Lennerhed, a senior consultant in our London office. "During the meal, each person provided a little background about the dish they had brought along. It was a wonderful opportunity to broaden our understanding of cultural differences and learn about the different personal experiences of our colleagues."
Our colleagues in Switzerland organized a physical gathering, too, opting for a team lunch. The team in Sibiu, meanwhile, gathered for a shared evening meal, enjoying great food and great company late into the night.
Team Wallisellen
Team Sibiu
Team London
At imc headquarters in Saarbrücken, the crew organised an after-work party, where everyone was invited to bring along culinary delights from different countries. "Even though I'm not actually based in Saarbrücken, I felt right at home and enjoyed the opportunity to catch up with colleagues I wouldn't normally see in person. And to top it all off, we had all this amazing food. I'd definitely be up for a repeat performance", says Franziska Filser, an instructional designer from our Freiburg office who happened to be in Saarbrücken at the time.
This week of special events was a resounding success, as Julia Heib, an event manager and a member of the organising team, confirms: "The feedback from everyone has been overwhelmingly positive, and it was very obvious during the week that everybody around the globe was getting into the spirit of these events, despite the hybrid model. Every year, more and more colleagues are getting excited about and looking forward to imc's Diversity & Inclusion programme."
Our week of special events was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about the cultural identities of our people – as a by-product of getting together and having fun. Eating together is, after all, one of the most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.
Learning Days: The perfect mix of upskilling and teambuilding
Here's another prime example of how corporate learning can be integrated into a team event: the Learning Days run by our marketing and newsroom team in Saarbrücken. Themed 'YouLearn', the Learning Days are where the members of the team undertake professional development on a self-selected topic and then share their learnings with the whole team. This sharing takes place in a fun, informal setting, both during a shared office lunch and at after-work drinks. "As well as professional development on self-selected topics, our Learning Days are a welcome opportunity to get the whole team together at the office", says Kerstin Steffen, Director Brand Strategy. It's all about learning together and spending time together.
Short and sweet: Our espresso sessions
We also have something for all those of us who prefer virtual events: our imcINSPIRE sessions, aka 'espresso webinars'. These brief morning sessions offer a daily infusion of new ideas on a whole range of topics, all served up by top-notch speakers. So far, we've raised a cup to all kinds of topics – everything from diversity and health management to teambuilding. And like a good espresso, these sessions provide a big hit for minimal input. They are another great example of packaging knowledge transfer in an inspiring event format to create a fun shared learning experience.
Mission accomplished: Teambuilding and learning in one
So, what's the verdict? In short: fun, entertaining events and corporate learning are not mutually exclusive. Quite the contrary, in fact. Our mission was to find event formats that enable us to learn with and from one another in a way that is rich in entertainment. Learning should not feel like learning, and we believe our new event formats deliver on this. Even so, we will continue to try out and test various formats, to see which ones we should take further, and what improvements are required. Exciting times! Where will our journey take us next?
Communication and collaboration at imc
Hybrid working requires new forms of collaboration. We show what communication and collaboration at imc now looks like.
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Improving the Wellbeing of Our Employees
Because if you don't have your health, you don't have anything
The Roman poet Juvenal had it right with "mens sana in corpore sano", a proverb commonly translated as "a healthy mind in a healthy body". In other words: our mental wellbeing and physical health are closely intertwined. And these days, both are sorely tested as we strive to reconcile the chaos and competing demands of our professional and personal lives. Increasingly, stress and overload seem to be baked in, and our health is the poorer for it.
Here at imc, we believe this needs to change. As part of our transition to hybrid working, we decided we wanted to offer support to all employees when they need it. We wanted to tilt the overall balance more towards health.
So, what tools did we come across in our mission to improve the health of our employees? And what other offerings did we choose in order to further enhance employee wellbeing and satisfaction? Read on and find out in this, our latest move! article.
"Everything alright?" Why the wellbeing of our employees is so important
Whether it's hectic schedules, demanding work commitments, or social crises, there are many sources of stress and strain in our personal and professional lives. And everyone responds differently. While some of us cope with – or even thrive on – these demands, others can feel overwhelmed.
"Not that it took a pandemic for us to know that the wellbeing of our employees is very important to us, but now, with the introduction of our hybrid work model, everyone has the ability to structure their working day around their personal needs and commitment,"' says HR manager Jennifer Wilhelm. "The aim of this newly won flexibility is to help improve work-life balance and reduce stress levels."
But we're not content to stop just there. We want to take it a step further and offer a range of health benefits that actively promote job satisfaction, motivation, and mental health here at imc. In doing this, what we want is for our employees to enjoy working at imc and be able to achieve their potential, both professionally and personally, without it costing them their wellbeing.
Supporting mental health within the company
Promoting health is an important part of the imc culture and is something the company's Executive Board takes very seriously, as board member Dr. Wolfram Jost explains: "For all of us here, the last few years have posed new challenges for our health generally, and in many cases, for our mental health in particular. We want to do all we can to support our imc family, so we decided to add voiio and My7Steps to our package of employee benefits."
We want to do all we can to support our imc family, so we decided to add voiio and My7Steps to our package of employee benefits.
Dr. Wolfram Jost
imc AG
My7Steps is for anyone who needs short-term support for difficult life situations or personal crises. It puts people in need of help in touch with qualified psychological counsellors.
The second platform, voiio, gives employees access to online support for all life situations and phases. Its comprehensive offering deals with self-care, pregnancy and childbirth, relationships, jobs, caring for family members, finance, and much more, so people looking for help are sure to find what they need.
That all sounds good in theory, but what do imc's employees think of these offerings, and are they even using them? We asked around, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
Zrinka Prša, a junior software developer at imc, had this to say about her initial experience of the courses offered by voiio: "When I found out about it, I was particularly taken with the mindfulness courses. Most of them are held early in the morning or later in the evening, which is great because they don't take up much time, and I can try them before or after work. I can use them for an early-morning energy boost to start my day feeling focused, and at the end of the day I can use them to de-stress and unwind."
Communications manager Nadine Kreutz is also a voiio fan. She uses it to help build a little physical movement into her day. "Like a lot of people, probably, I don't get as much exercise as I should, particularly exercise for strengthening and mobilising my back. And I have zero interest in pre-recorded workouts of the kind found on YouTube, etc. So, I jumped at the chance to sign up for a few online back exercise programs on voiio, where the trainers model the exercises live and can even provide personal feedback on your technique, if you want. The sessions are only 15 minutes long, so you can easily fit them into your routine, whether you're in the office or at home."
The sessions are only 15 minutes long, so you can easily fit them into your routine, whether you're in the office or at home.
Communication Manager
imc employees as champions of improved health and wellbeing
The increasing focus on mental health at imc is also due in no small measure to the efforts of our employees themselves. Within our organisation, there has sprung up a small grassroots movement of individuals who are proactively championing and re-imagining health and wellbeing and helping to develop creative new approaches. Learning strategy consultant Katharina Kunz, for example, offers regular mini yoga sessions that have been very well received by her colleagues.
"I think we sometimes forget how beneficial a few minutes of calm breathing and conscious movement can be when we are feeling stressed and unfocused", Katharina says. "That's why I offer my Focus&Flow sessions. They don't require any equipment, and they provide regular opportunities for fellow imc employees to consciously take time out to work on their health. And, of course, yoga is more fun in a group."
The importance of mental health and work-life balance has also been highlighted in team-specific sessions. Product marketing manager Carlotta Pudelek welcomes this development. "I'm very pleased to see that imc is discussing this subject so openly and encouraging employees in need to accept help. In work contexts in particular, many people are reluctant to talk about mental health. And yet issues with mental health are so common, and talking about them in the open can be such a big help to those affected."
All these initiatives are supported by our brand ambassador programme, where members are invited to get involved and promote employee health in the new "imc Care" pillar.
Watch this space: Health Weeks
Because health is paramount at imc, we want to go further than these two offerings and proactively raise awareness of (mental) health. We don't want to give too much away just yet, but it's safe to say there will be an imc Health Week featuring various special formats dedicated to health and wellbeing.
The line-up includes everything from keynote addresses to sports sessions, to information resources featuring all manner of practical tips, so there's plenty for all of us to look forward to. We sincerely hope everyone will get on board with this and invest in their long-term wellbeing.
And on that note: take care of yourselves and stay healthy!
Welcome on board – the new imc onboarding journey
In the move! interview, we show what New Work looks like at imc and how a shared working environment is designed with the best possible results for everyone.
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It's all about Communication & Collaboration
New Work: Communication and Collaboration as Keys to Success
Why internal communication is fast becoming a core element of our hybrid work model here at imc
Hybrid working has transformed how people at imc interact with one another. While some employees prefer to work in the office on certain days, others prefer to work remotely from home – in some cases from a different country or even a different time zone. And as people head out the office door, those chance encounters at the water cooler and shared coffee breaks start to fall by the wayside. We still want to share and connect with one another of course – we just need new ways of making that happen.
High time, then, to put in place some global communication and collaboration standards to ensure that the collaboration continues to work successfully. This latest move! article presents the formats we've come up for this and outlines the specials that the individual locations have already developed.
The golden rules for successful communication and collaboration
Our task was to review existing strategies and create new interaction formats to put our hybrid work model on a global and more professional footing while preserving our open corporate culture.
It was clear that the success of the hybrid work model hinged in part on the introduction of harmonised (quality) standards as the basis for day-to-day communication and collaboration.
We set to work developing global standards that would facilitate further creative forms of collaboration and hence opportunities for sharing and exchange. The result? Our Communication & Collaboration Guidelines. The guidelines contain ground rules for communication, hints on meeting netiquette, social media playbooks and recommended best practices. Their purpose is to guide us in our day-to-day shared work and dealings with one another. The guidelines also set globally applicable quantitative and qualitative standards for communication and collaboration at imc.
Inspirational speakers discuss hot topics: Our imcINSPIRE sessions
As well as standards, we wanted to create formats that both bring imc employees together and create real added value.
And so were born our imcINSPIRE sessions – short, punchy learning nuggets that employees can do in the time it takes to have a coffee. The sessions cover a wide range of fascinating topics, so there's something for every imc employee. So far, we've had nuggets by the internal IT people on the proper use of commonly used collaboration tools like MS Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, plus all manner of sessions on subjects ranging from diversity and personal branding to effective time management to team building. Based on the positive feedback from our colleagues, we will definitely continue to use and develop these sorts of formats.
Welcome to imcUNITE
The standards and guidelines were all well and good, but there was something else that no effective internal collaboration system can be without: an informal communication channel for all employees. We had already set up a channel for this purpose, but hardly anyone knew about it, let alone used it, so we gave it a complete revamp and breathed new life into it. The result is imcUNITE.
Our aim with this internal MS Teams channel is to bolster informal communication at imc so as to break up team silos and build an active imc community where everyone supports each other. The idea is that it should be quick and easy for all imc employees to keep up to date with current internal news and developments. Of course, the channel needs to be fun, too, which is why the relevant community managers regularly run a range of engaging formats and interactive specials, such as Christmas quizzes and GIF challenges.
Team Switzerland: When office day becomes a major highlight
Our colleagues in Zurich head into the office every Tuesday in a shining example of how "office day" can go from a normal working day to the highlight of the week. Being on site offers valuable opportunities for informal chats with workmates during breaks. On office days, employees are encouraged to keep off-site meetings to a minimum so that they can benefit from on-site exchange and team building.
The icing on the cake is the shared team lunch, which, at the express wish of the team, is always held at a nearby restaurant. "Working at the office, you're much more in tune with what's going on than if you're at home," says Vildan Ljatifi, a sales consultant in the Zurich office. "Everyone looks forward to office day because it's the perfect antidote to working from home."
Kaffeeklatsch Ausssie-style
What better way to spend your lunchbreak on a fine day than indulging in coffee and cake with your colleagues at your favourite local cafe? This quintessentially German of pastimes has, it seems, caught on with our Australian team, who have instituted regular Coffee & Cake Meetings.
The idea of these outings is that getting together in a relaxed setting over coffee and tasty treats from the desserts cabinet is a great way to foster informal interaction and dialogue outside of work. "Obviously, it's also a way of connecting with our company's German heritage and its 'coffee and cake' tradition," says Tyson Priddle, Director Digital Learning, Australia.
Upskilling and team building with learning days
Team spirit and collaboration are also the name of the game at our headquarters in Saarbrücken. The marketing & newsroom team, for example, holds regular "Youlearn" learning days that provide professional development on self-selected topics. They are also a welcome opportunity to get the whole team together at the office. With everyone in one place, it's so much easier to disseminate new knowledge – and chat over a shared lunch.
More soon – stay tuned!
As you can see, people at all our individual locations have been working hard to create more opportunities for face-to-face collaboration and interaction. There's a lot more to be done of course, and we're pleased to say other teams have already signalled plans to institute their own little rituals and head back into the office more regularly, COVID restrictions permitting. We can't wait to see what amazing ideas and creative forms of collaboration will take root to keep our imc sense of togetherness alive despite the distance that separates us. Stay tuned!
Welcome on board - the new imc onboarding journey
No more boring onboarding processes! We show how we at imc will also create a new welcome culture in the future with New Work.
Turning onboarding into an experience
How imc is leveraging new work to create a new culture for welcoming new team members
No more boring onboarding processes! The pandemic has left its mark, and we embarked on a holistic new work approach. Now, it's time to rethink our onboarding journey as well.
As a digital learning provider committed to creating digital learning experiences, this was a challenge: We had to set a high standard. While we already proved ourselves in many (onboarding) projects,we now had to design and implement a successful process at imc.
Challenge accepted. Hybrid, global and unique – these characteristics were a must for the onboarding journey we wanted to create while integrating gamification elements and, of course, our Learning Suite.
Well, and it should be fun. Quite the wish list.
At the same time, we wanted to move away from pathetic handbooks, boring guidelines, and isolated solutions for individual locations. Having an onboarding journey that inspires and motivates while turning our brand and our brand values into an experience to complement our global processes was important to us.
In our latest move! article, we took a look behind the scenes of the new onboarding programme and present several exclusive highlights.
A different take on onboarding
We all know that exhilarating joy we feel when signing a new employment contract. The days leading up to that first day of work are usually marked by anticipation and excitement.
We were determined to hold onto these positive vibes. Using a hybrid approach was also a key factor. "While the imc team loves digitisation, we strongly believe in human communication. Thus, the journey should not be exclusively digital," says Kerstin Steffen, Director Brand Strategy at imc.
Claire Raistrick, HR Manager and member of the Onboarding Project Team even goes a step further and sums up the grand objectives: "At imc, we believe that onboarding is an art. Each new employee contributes their uniqueness, as well as huge potential for performance and success. At imc, we create an environment that allows employees to reach their potential. Loosing the energy of a productive employee is a lost opportunity. Loosing a new employee through poor onboarding is criminal."
Loosing the energy of a productive employee is a lost opportunity. Loosing a new employee through poor onboarding is criminal.
Claire Raistrick
imc information multimedia communication AG
Seizing the new opportunity: Welcome to imc!
What exactly can our new recruits expect? "Today, this super-sweet – and personal – welcome message from my team arrived in the post. What a fantastic gesture! Thank you!" Vanessa Steinmann had left this comment on LinkedIn. It is but one of many examples.
At imc, we are confident that welcoming new team members already starts with pre-boarding. That is why we post out a personal greeting and invite our new recruits to our brand-new pre-boarding cockpit. A win-win situation: The new recruit can get a feel for our Learning Suite and start exploring everything they need for a successful start – from welcome videos to our cultural playbook. In addition, our BizQuiz is great fun while playfully offering valuable introductory information on all aspects of imc. Of course, Onboarding Buddy Smarty is always on hand to support the onboarding mission.
Time for surprises
We came up with a number of specials to ensure that everything goes smooth in the first few days and weeks. The custom-created Welcome Boxes unleashed waves of enthusiasm, delighting both our existing and new team members. Jan Stauder, IT Engineer at imc, claims that everyone loved the fruit-jelly foxes resembling the "smart fox", a popular German cartoon character. When Claudia Michels started her new role as Corporate Designer, she was over the moon to receive the imc coffee mug and clover seeds with the message stating, "We grow together."
Our new brand training is yet another highlight in our onboarding programme. We already created this for several customers. Now, it has become a key component for our own journey. The objective: Going beyond understanding the corporate brand and diving into a full experience. In this gamified course, our mascot Smarty takes the new colleague by the hand to discover imc brand identity together.
Entertainment and networking: Our Welcome Days
How do you beat this? We went another step further with our hybrid Welcome Days. Our Welcome Days are THE networking events for all new imc team members. For two days, everyone seizes the opportunity to meet imc leadership personalities, and gain insights into the product portfolio.
"We wanted to make sure that entertainment and networking are not neglected," says Desiree Stroh, HR Manager and Welcome Days Host. "You can participate in activities like bingo, quizzes or the virtual photo box, that provide technical content while also offering variety and fun. These onboarding moments should make new colleagues feel that they made the right choice in joining imc and giving them memories of their first steps they can look back on with a smile." Jennifer Wilhelm, HR Manager and Welcome Days Organiser, emphasises just how important it is to get newbies on board, create memories and form connections with them that will stay with them for a long time on their journey with imc.
Orientation phase: Check!
We wanted our onboarding journey to continue beyond the first few weeks after welcoming our new imc family members. "Work in progress" is the motto under which we are still developing additional creative ideas to turn this phase into yet another experience.
Mission completed
After six months, it's "mission completed". A reason to celebrate. For all of us. And best of all: The journey continues. A range of events and campaigns like our brand ambassador programme or our diversity and inclusion initiative encourage employees to get involved and network, even when working in a hybrid system.
Are we proud of our new onboarding journey? Absolutely! Is it perfect? No. That's why we are aiming for continuous improvement. Leveraging our employees' help to shape things is one of the fundamental principles of our new work model. That is why we are inviting our team leaders and colleagues to get involved and help shape these new processes.
We must say though: After two months, the feedback we received makes it clear that it is all worth it – and that is great encouragement for us to step it up a bit more. Let us surprise you!
Backstage at imc
What the development of a shared working world with the best possible outcomes for employees, customers and the organisation looks like
New work is in. Everyone's talking about it. There are discussions about flexible working hours, new office concepts or even the 4-day week. All these models focus on one thing: companies want to put employees in the focus and create a working environment in which creativity, self-determination and flexibility are lived.
This change is also actively driven forward at imc. We therefore spoke with a New Work pioneer, who is helping to manage the process. In the move! interview, Kerstin Steffen reveals what is meant by performance culture instead of attendance culture, why imc decided against a total change to home office work and what role managers play in all this.
Director Brand Strategy and New Work Pioneer
Hello Kerstin! Thank you for making time. imc has recognised that a new work culture is needed and started the New Work Initiative. When did you start the "transformation phase" and why did you take this step?
Kerstin Steffen: We were tied to our home offices for almost two years because of the corona situation. That already gave us many opportunities for development. Before we embarked on the actual transformation, we were facing the question: "Is it actually reasonable to take a step back, or should we continue pressing ahead?" We made the decision to move to a "100% flexible but not 100% remote" model. The transformation phase serves to smooth the transition to the new official, hybrid work model we will adopt in 2022. We want to offer the teams the opportunity to try out and test things, and to incorporate their experiences into the new work culture.
The model we believe in is 100% flexible but not 100% remote.
100% flexible but not 100% remote – What exactly does that mean?
Kerstin Steffen: Simply put, it means that our activities are no longer tied to the office as a matter of principle, but the company affords us the flexibility to decide whether we want to work from home or from the office. You could also describe it as performance over attendance culture. We have no fixed attendance quota, but time in the office should be agreed with the team and the manager, and flexibility must not compromise organisational objectives.
While we firmly believe in flexibility, we clearly decided against moving all work to the home office. The relationship and commitment to the company remains very important to us. We want our offices to remain a place of communication and interaction – and that applies to official team meetings as much as personal discussions over a coffee.
You established a New Work Pioneers team. Which departments do the team members come from? How do you collaborate?
Kerstin Steffen: The core team of the New Work Pioneers is based at the headquarters in Saarbrücken where the decision to embark on the New Work Initiative was made. We selected the team based on competences and included members from Internal IT, HR as well as Communications. That allows us to bring together the core competences to support process changes within the pillars of people, technology and spaces. Of course, we can add members that contribute other skills as and when we need them.
We hold regular meetings at least once a week, where we discuss and prioritise all the topics in our target plan, as well as any issues that arise. At times, the core team is split into smaller project teams. For instance, we maintain regular feedback loops with the managers of our different offices to get everyone involved. It also helps us see where improvements are needed and highlight how we might provide support from the headquarters.
Can you summarise the objectives of the imc New Work Initiative in one sentence?
Kerstin Steffen: The overarching goal is to develop a working world together that generates the best possible outcomes for us as employees, our organisation as well as our customers in the given context and situation. In other words: We love being flexible, but this is tied to the condition that the corporate objectives are met and performance is maintained.
Would you say this mindset is what makes new work at imc so special? What is the difference between your approach and the total switch to home office work other companies have realised?
Kerstin Steffen: We are a digital brand and stand for learning. Naturally, we want to understand modern formats and establish ourselves as a pioneer. Yet, compared to the key players in the market, we still have some catching up to do. Nevertheless, I would like to emphasise that this was a fantastic step for imc, and that our colleagues and applicants already consider it an absolute benefit. Working together to drive and shape cultural change is also a huge opportunity – and I invite everyone to seize it. We can be fairly sure that this is not a universal prospect offered by all companies, which makes it a USP for us.
Personally, I really want to see every single person benefitting from it. That means we also need to be open to constructive criticism and listen to concerns, no matter how excited we are about our ideas and progress.
We are all learning together throughout this change process, and our success is dependent on wide-spread acceptance.
What role does remote or virtual (team) leadership play in this transformation?
Kerstin Steffen: It is very much a matter of mindset. We know that team leaders and managers play a key role, because they represent the corporate values and culture to a great extent and infuse the company with these. We adapted the leadership model and developed three new pillars or principles: Lead, Coach and Care. Our managers receive targeted training to develop and enable them to realise these principles and respond to the new circumstances. Based on my experience, I would say traditional management elements should be combined with agile methods. While I'm a huge fan of digitisation, I believe that digital tools are no substitute for personal contact. We consider hybrid formats a great opportunity, but gradual development is key. We are already holding intensive talks and testing various formats.
Managers also need to learn to place more trust in their employees and to be more organised themselves. Flexibility also involves walking away from rigid principles and allowing new things. It is important that managers adjust their mindset to support this.
What were the biggest challenges? How did you respond to them?
Kerstin Steffen: We are facing challenges every day, and I'm sure that will still be the case after the transformation. We are really looking at an agile learning process – for our leadership as well as things like our hardware, office equipment or seating arrangements. Being spread out across different locations on different continents doesn't exactly make it easier, but we are welcoming that challenge. We might not be 100% perfect, but we genuinely try to create a new work culture step by step. We are all highly motivated and rather proud to see our first successes taking shape.
Internal Communications and HR contribute a lot of the support for the measures. It is important to us that the changes are transparent and successes are visible.
How was the transformation phase communicated to the employees? How can you avoid unsettling employees?
Kerstin Steffen: Communication in itself is always important! Once the decision had been made, we first informed the team leaders and asked them to talk to their teams and relay any unanswered questions to us. We then made a global announcement through the official executive channel in the form of a virtual event and sent out an info email with a recording of the official announcement. In addition, we created points of contact in the intranet where information can be obtained, and key questions are answered. New formats were introduced to provide information as well as encourage employees to participate in the dialogue. Of course, the Transformation Team is always available to answer any questions.
Beyond our efforts to inform, each team is invited to help shape the transformation and to identify what is important for the team. We created a global framework. It is now up to each team where they go with that and how they develop it.
What is the employees' response to the initial changes? Have you received positive or negative feedback yet?
Kerstin Steffen: The feedback we received was mostly positive, which motivates us to drive the transformation. Naturally, concerns and worries were voiced, but that is to be expected in any change process. It is important to take that seriously and actively offer support. It is easy to get carried away, and we must remind ourselves that it is not only a major change in the organisation, but also a cultural shift. That demands sensitive and responsible support.
You still want to trial and test various things. What can we look forward to at imc? What else have you planned?
Kerstin Steffen: First of all, we improved our internal communication channels and created new channels to strengthen team spirit. For instance, we started a newsletter that plays a key role in actively providing information and highlight success stories. We want to make small steps visible, initial successes tangible and let employees share in the experience.
The new formats we created aim to enhance collaboration and communication. The offer will gradually grow: We will create global guidelines, hold workshops and include smaller learning nuggets.
We will also incorporate formats such as social learning, informal learning and user generated content. Our brand ambassadors are also actively helping to shape the transformation. Measures like our BarCamp, Espresso Webinars and Flow & Focus sessions are already well-established and successful. Of course, we will develop these further and make them more professional. As to the strategic aspects, the adaptation of our leadership programme will be crucial, and we are professionalising our operational model.
Thank you for your time, Kerstin! We are excited to see what you have in store for us.
Shaping New Work together at imc
Take a look behind the scenes with move!
Flexible working models, flat organisational structures and new office concepts - this is already what the new working life looks like in many companies in times of New Work. We at imc have also recognised that it is worth trying out new ways of working. We want to use the opportunities of the modern working world and create something new.
In our background report "move!" we therefore take you exclusively behind the scenes at imc. Our goal is to establish a new working culture that focuses on the self-determination and flexibility of our employees. Join us on our journey towards a new working culture and experience the opportunities, challenges and successes from the classic working world to the "new working" of the future.
In exciting background articles, event reports and photo galleries, we show what modern working at imc means from now on.
MOVE! – THE NEW WORK REPORT
Experiencing change together
What does New Work really mean?
The modern work of tomorrow means first of all initiating and fostering change.
We are in a transformation of the working world in which new professions are emerging, rigid hierarchical management styles are being dissolved and a human-centred way of working is being emphasised.
New Work describes this transformation of the working world, which focuses on self-determination and agility.
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