The business:
Great organizations have clear business Goals fitted in a Purpose that gives direction. Based on Values which create a clear culture with clear boundaries.
The environment:
Great organizations understand their environment, in which they are operating. They are aware of the local and international legal and moral laws. They are aware of the impact they have and they value a sustainable way of working.
Teams:
Great organizations actively create and maintain healthy teams. Healthy teams have clear goals, healthy teams are valued in the organization. Healthy teams do have the authority to operate. Healthy teams do have two or more people in it who take responsibility and are committed to work together to achieve the team goals.
People as resources:
Great organizations work with skilled empowered people who are aware of their value for the team and their position in the orgaization. They take responsibility for their behavior and are willing to learn and improve. They add value
People as human beings:
Great organizations understand that people are more than resources. They invest in the personal wellbeing of all their staff, within the boundaries of healthy business.
Leadership:
Leadership is the art of directing yourself and or others to take action towards the chosen goals. Including the responsibility for the offers you ask and the risk in not achieving the goals.
Knowledge:
We believe in the power of knowledge. So being aware of what you know and what you dont know is important. Speak up if you know, be modest if you dont know, invest in studying and research.
Skills:
We believe in the power and the value of skills. Invest in upgrading your skills. Real power is in being honest in valuing skills separate from valuing people.
We separate interpersonal skills from technical skills.
Wisdom:
Wisdom is knowing when to take action and when to let go, based on knowledge, skills, intuition and leadership.
Communication:
People often think they know what others mean when they say or do something.
Curiosity to really understand the other is key.
The essential values and goals need to be defined clearly so no misunderstanding is possible.
Problem, situation and dilemma:
We can solve a problem, we can handle a situation and we can discuss a dilemma.
If we organise our actions be clear if it is a problem, a situation or a dilemma and act accordingly.
Judgement:
To judge you need clear goals, values and rules.
The way they are defined is based on the “chosen” systems in, and around the organization.
Teamwork across generations:
There are big differences between generations and their environments. The life problems of our grandparents were completely different than the life problems of the youngest generation that is entering the companies now. Different values, different needs. Mutual understanding creates more value.
Teamwork across cultures:
Teams with a diversity of cultures are able to achieve more than teams with a monoculture. Especially when it creativity is needed in a changing environment.
Teamwork and neurodiversity:
ADHD, Dyslexia, High Sensitivity, Autism, Gifted…. and so on. We are all different. Working with all these differences givers great opportunities for growth. It also challenges teams, misunderstanding can easily result in disrespect.
Basic knowledge of a TrueCompass guide
- The Past, The Now, Tomorrow, The Future , The End
- Me You We Them
- Body Mind Soul
- Facts and feelings
- Systems and positions
- Perception
- Capabilities
- Energy and motion
- Values and drives
- Purpose and mission
- Playfulness and serious stuff
- One person – a team – an organization
- From strategy to delivery
Leading principles
- My world does only exist in my perspective
- Your world only exist in your perspective
- Our world is a combination of history, visions, judgements, agreements, and laws
- Our behavior effects our environment
- Human beings are imperfect
- Change is permanent
- Learning is of great value
- Think universal act local
- Value creation is fullfilling
- Getting less than we need is as unhealthy as consuming more than we need
- I am because we are
- Honesty connects better than comfort
- Separate emotions and facts for analysis
- Combine emotions and facts for decisions
- Understand that, what we consider as facts is based on the knowledge we have build up until now
- We can not change the past, our perception of the past will always change
- We can not predict the future
- Everything we create will be forgotten in time
- We are not important in the universe
- Being ourselves is the most important thing in our own lives
- Understanding our fears and desires gives us the possibility to act responsible
- Focussing on clear goals is key for aligned action and teamwork
- Trust is an attitude that leads to connection
- Distrust is an attitude that helps to set and protect boundaries
- We believe that value creation based on universal love is the most fulfilling we can do
- We believe that teams are able to achieve team goals together
- We believe that people develop within relationships with others, either upwards or downward
- Teams involve multiple interactive relationships
The main fundaments of our framework:
Prof Carl Jung; Psychological types, Archetypes and colecive uncounscious
Prof William Moulton Marston; Behavior of Normal people
Prof Claire W Graves, Don Edward Beck, Christopher C. Cowan; Spiral Dynamics
Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur; Business Model Generation Canvas
Fredrick W Taylor Henry L. Grant and Frank & Lilian Gilbreth Scientific management theory
Henri Fayol; Clasical organization theory
Mc Gregor X & Y theory
Stephen Covey; 7 habits of highly effective people, the speed of trust
Patrick Lencioni; five dysfunctions of a team, the ideal teamplayer
Simon Sinec; Start with why, The infinitive game
George Kohlrieser; Secure base leadership
Daniel Kahneman; Thinking, fast and slow
Abraham Maslow; Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Dave Logan; Tribal leadership
Mungi Ngomane; Everyday Ubuntu
William Reich; Character Analysis
Bert Hellinger; Systemic leadership
Edith Eger; The Choice
And many others..
Guided by Insight, Grounded in Awareness:
We draw from thinkers who opened new doors in understanding human behavior. Many offered insights that still help us see patterns, dynamics, and possibilities more clearly. At the same time, several of these figures were not without controversy, and some crossed boundaries that we do not ignore.
We take what is valuable from their work while staying aware that these ideas are not scientific truths. They are perspectives that invite reflection, not facts to be followed. We use them with care: grounded in context, aware of their limits, and always in service of the people we work with.