Netexplorateur 2010 // Gavin SYMANOWITZ, Heart to heart

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my name is Gavin samovitz and I'm the founder of gag grade.com it is a web company which brings great bosses and great employees together uh and increases uh or shows company how to bring transparency in the workplace in a responsible way the internet nowadays has brought transparency into the companies and it's very scary because companies used to control the message and now not anymore and they don't

know quite how how to react what we do is we allow companies to showcase the positive aspects and in particular the management style of their bses so if they've got good management uh we showcase those managers and then we actually allow companies to link uh good manager reviews to job ads and vacancies that they're trying to fill what it does do is it allows good managers to

celebrate their management excellence and showcase it to the rest of the world you know managers need proper feedback in order to improve now we hope that managers will have an open door policy and people can walk into their boss's office and have a real H to- heart conversation about uh the issues that they have and how they would like their boss to improve the reality is that

people can't it's very difficult to have those face-to-face conversations and to tell the boss what he really needs to hear people can't do it it's too risky they don't know how the boss is going to react uh and it could threaten their own job security so what we do is we enable those difficult face-to-face conversations to take place so um what happens is the the employees will

provide feedback back to the manager and when the manager reads that feedback it's all Anonymous so he doesn't know who spoke what but he can actually follow up on those conversations by having a private online chat conversation with that particular employee who remains Anonymous so it it what we're doing is we putting the internet as an interface between the manager and his employee to enable those conversations

that otherwise would never happen face to face what we found is good bosses want that feedback to improve even better um and so what our system enables them to do is firstly to get the feedback to to to improve their management style and then to take it to another level to say okay you've been told that you're a great manager now let's actually let you use that

for your own benefit let's use it to attract talent to come and work for you and to boost your own career by linking it to your CV or resume what we're hoping is that if enough great managers um go through the process that will provide them significant competitive Advantage advantages and weak managers will then feel the pressure in order to improve so the Grand Vision is that

this ultimately improves the the quality of management uh across the world I think the whole Paradigm of going for a job interview uh taking a job at a company changing companies every few years and then retiring at age 65 I think that's going to change completely uh people are going to have more and more control over who are the people that they work for who are the

people that they work with and the type of work that they do I think uh the the name of the company that they work for is going to become less and less important um and even interchangeable and transient I think the whole job interview concept is going to disappear I think the employment contract is going to disappear and the concept of retirement is going to disappear I

think it's a a very exciting future world of work that we can look forward to get a great boss.com