Learn from the 2023 Special Awards winners: Bewire - Co-Creation
Great Place to Work examines a company’s ability to develop inclusive leaders, tap into their people’s innovative contributions, and define values that guide how people work together. In 2023, we granted 3 special awards to organisations that excel in inclusive leadership, co-creation, and value-driven strategy. We’re happy to shed the light on some of the best employers in Belgium!
Our analysis focuses on the Trust Index™ survey data, which tell us how employees evaluate their organisation on these different aspects. To round out our analysis, we ask companies to tell us what they have done to create an intentional structure and strategy for inclusive leadership, co-creation and a value-based strategy. This is measured by means of the Culture Audit™, a management questionnaire that helps us understand what programmes and practices drive the employee experience.
Co-creation is what happens when all employees are encouraged, empowered, and recognised for trying new and better ways of doing things, regardless of who they are and what they do for the business. This is a win-win for the employees and for the business, driving revenue growth and powerfully better workplace experiences. Co-creation is an employee experience that taps into the intelligence, skills, and passion of everyone in the organisation. Companies that invest in co-creation generate more high-quality ideas and implement them more quickly and can quickly adapt to new and complex realities. Co-creation at work is the process of having employees contribute to designing and creating things that affect them.
In a co-creating environment, management genuinely seeks and responds to ideas and suggestions, shows appreciation, involves people in decisions that affect their jobs or work environment, and recognises honest mistakes as part of doing business. In addition, they celebrate people who try new and better ways of doing things, regardless of the outcome. In turn, the employees quickly adapt to changes needed for the organisation's success.
Average scores of the Best Workplaces 2023 on the Trust Index statements that belong to Co-creation.
The Special Award Co-creation goes to the organisation that has created an intentional structure and strategy of co-creation and where employees are encouraged, empowered, and recognised for trying new and better ways of doing things, regardless of who they are and what they do for the business.
Bewire
Winner of the 2023 special award Co-Creation
B-Labs: By thinking about the challenges within digitalisation ourselves and coming up with solutions that are out-of-the-box and innovative, we encourage our employees through B-Labs to actively participate in innovation, and we also encourage them to work with that mindset on both larger and smaller projects. Anyone in Bewire can launch research questions to be solved in the form of Lab trajectories together with other colleagues. For example, Lab tracks can be based on certain problems experienced in Bewire, teasing out new technologies or improving the onboarding process.
B-Inspired: This is an event that has now taken place 7 times. Our own employees volunteer to speak in front of the entire company on a topic that inspires them. The speakers are coached for a month, and they receive feedback on the structure and content of their presentation. After the dress rehearsal, they are fully ready to speak in front of a full house about their passion.
Bewire Roots: By appreciating every idea, big or small, and seeing its potential, we ensure that employees enthusiastically further develop their idea into a real business plan, from which even their own brand or partial company can grow.