The Corporate Spring Model™

– for Thriving, High-Performing Team Cultures

After nearly 20 years of studying, testing, practicing and achieving extraordinary results in some of the world’s most successful companies; we have developed The Corporate Spring Model to help our clients deliberately, strategically and continuously work with the principles we know lead to thriving, high performing team cultures.

The approach is founded in science with a holistic perspective on human behavior, organizational psychology and group dynamics.

The Corporate Spring Model helps leaders work strategically and methodically with something that may feel intangible but that leads to very tangible results.

The core premise of the model is that it is not one thing that matters the most. It is many things that matter together.

By paying attention to one part of the model, you influence the whole. Just as in organizational life, things are dynamic and ever changing. Many variables are coming to play simultaneously and the way you work with your organizational culture needs to reflect that.

This dynamism is captured in The Corporate Spring Model, which is one of the reasons why it is so impactful in strengthening existing cultures and creating effective culture change.

Research from Gallup shows that highly engaged teams, who are passionate and enjoy their jobs, are more creative and innovative, their organizations are more profitable – and they deliver up to 50% better performance than those who are less engaged!

The Corporate Spring Model shows you how to get there.

The Corporate Spring Model, and the people behind, puts deep knowledge, structure and processes into the not-so-tangible process of building, and continuously evolving, a corporate culture. Without constantly securing those building blocks, a company will not survive long in today´s fast-changing value-driven world. We are privileged and grateful for the opportunity to be guided by Corporate Spring on this exciting journey to form a culture where people can thrive and thereby deliver on our purpose back to society; we are following the process mindfully and can clearly experience the impact in the organization.

Camilla Nilsson, CEO Kyoto Group

The 5 foundational building blocks

Purpose

Being aligned around a team purpose, a “why”, a reason for existing. Having an environment of inspiration, pride and feeling of meaningful work.
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Identity

A shared understanding of what makes the team unique. Agreements on how to work together. Having a sense of “belongingness”.

Trust

A psychologically safe environment where everyone can be themselves, be honest and make mistakes without fear of retribution. Feeling that someone has one’s back.
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Growth Mindsets

Understanding the power of the mind, that mindset is a choice, change is the only constant and that skills, talents and abilities constantly can be developed.

Passion & Joy

Having an inspiring and energetic work environment where people enjoy themselves, feel passionate about what they do and have fun doing great work together.
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Why are inspired team cultures good for business?

79% of the global workforce say they are not engaged in their jobs.

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Only 21% of the global workforce say they are engaged in their jobs.

Research from Gallup shows that powerful, thriving & highly engaged teams not only are more creative, innovative, agile and have a much lower attrition, they also outperform the less engaged teams by up to 50%.

Regretfully, only a minority of the workforce say they are engaged in their jobs, which costs US businesses alone more than $750 billion USD per year in unused potential.

Lack of leadership is given a lot of blame for the lack of employee engagement in most workplaces. In our experience this has a lot to do with leaders lack of knowledge and experience in how to create engaged, inspired teams and organization.

We want to help change that. The Corporate Spring Model is designed to help leaders understand what they can focus on and actually do, in order to create more engaged, inspired, high performing team cultures in the new world of work.

Do you want to build inspired, high-performing team cultures?

The Corporate Spring Model is grounded in science and practical experience and has been tested on thousands of leaders and teams for nearly 20 years and has led to highly engaged organizations, world-leading innovation, Best Places to Work Awards and extraordinary business results.

In an ever-changing, increasingly complex world, The Corporate Spring Model is a holistic, simplified and practical approach in how to build strong and engaged team cultures that will thrive and deliver great performance in the new world of work.

Do you want to learn how to put The Corporate Spring Model into practice?

Testimonials

Jason Angelus

Head of Global Demo Engineering, Cisco

Having worked with the Corporate Spring team over the last years, I have first-hand experienced the amazing effect of what they do and how they do it. By combining theory, experience and neuroscience with excellent facilitation skills, they have trained, inspired and provided tremendous value to our 350 people global team. Their work has led to higher levels of belonging, trust and engagement, more innovation, collaboration and better performance across the team. The return of this investment has been phenomenal.

Camilla Nilsson

CEO, Kyoto Group

Ingrid Woodhouse

VP People Development, Pexip

Corporate Spring was instrumental in our process of defining a common culture and values for the combined company this spring and help us focus on what matters the most in order to create a high performing global team. The presentation Annicken R. Day and Mikael Hansson held on our kick-off, about the importance of corporate culture, was extremely well received and created a lot of excitement and enthusiasm. We are really grateful for the excellent work and can highly recommend Corporate Spring for this type of work.

Mike Baird

Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Avizia

Corporate Spring’s inspiration and insights have driven us to a greater level. We are proud to be one of the most admired companies in our sector with employee ratings that are off the charts. Thank you for all you have done to improve corporate culture around the world!

Martin Falch

CEO, 360Leaders

You want your coaches to make an immediate impact on you and your team, and no one does this more than Annicken. She is by far the best “culture expert” I have ever come across both as a subject matter expert and her ability to facilitate implementation. Her impressive background, combined with her uniquely energetic personality and “no b.s” attitude, was the reason we chose to engage Corporate Spring to work on our own organization, and now gladly recommended them to all of our clients.

Karianne Melbye

CEO Open Bank, DNB

The effect of the work Corporate Spring did with the digital business unit at DNB has by far exceeded our expectations. The digital teams work more effectively together, are more inspired and energized than ever, and demonstrate greater flexibility and willingness to change. We would never have achieved this level of engagement and shift in mindsets and motivation without the help of Corporate Spring.