Prologis Industry Movers

Podcast: Industry Movers On Unpacking Prologis Europe’s People & Culture philosophy

What happens when you move past traditional prescriptive behaviours, requirements and company policies and focus on building trust instead?

In this Industry Movers podcast, Virginia Colurcio (VP People & Culture Europe), Simone Pereira (Talent Acquisition) and Olympia Barysz (Director, HR Business Partner) unveil what’s behind Prologis Europe’s philosophy towards Prologis’ People & Culture.

Co-Creation
“When you build an exception to the rule you make a new rule and where does that end?” - Virginia Colurcio.

Our philosophy builds on a commitment to move away from traditional prescriptive behaviours, requirements and company policies, to individual accountability and co-creation at all levels of the organization. Aims focus on inspiring to lead through example and to help people reach their full potential.

“There is so much a company can do. For example, when someone asks: can you just send an email around saying that people shouldn’t book meetings after six o’clock? We give people the flexibility and freedom to decide when and where they work. With that freedom comes responsibility. Declining those meetings and being clear about it is an act of selfcare, which we expect from you. This is the level of leadership we are working on every day.” - Virginia Colurcio

Leadership
With change comes an understanding that leadership evolution is necessary to answer the challenges of the future. Within People & Culture sits a leadership philosophy that takes on coaching as a way to help people ask the right questions instead of providing them with standard answers. Giving and receiving open feedback is part of this, and key to keep listening, learning and getting better.

Psychological Wellbeing
Essential to our philosophy is honouring trustworthy and safe environments where free and honest conversation can take place. By creating opportunities for people to speak up, we are engaging in active inclusion practices while walking the talk.

"We are a part of this huge organization and team and, of course, offer custom trainings and programmes. However, what really helps shift the culture is to open up, learn about others, how they feel and look at certain things. So, what we have done over the past year especially, is opening up such conversations. This has proved decisive.” - Olympia Barysz

There is a real need to move away from the culture “handbook” and to be more open to co-creating meaningful relationships at work. Prologis People & Culture is mapping the way to empower employees with the trust they deserve, enabling them to experiment, to become and own the culture they want to be part of.

Listen to the new edition of Industry Movers to find out what’s behind Prologis Europe’s philosophy towards Prologis’ People & Culture:

Podcast: Industry Movers On Purpose Driven Innovation, Failing Fast and Customer Centricity

Driving Innovation in Europe

What happens when you actively invest in new ideas, provide room for experimentation and motivate your employees to think differently?

In this episode of Industry Movers, Robbert Heekelaar (VP IT, Architecture & Emerging Technologies), Roderik Thush (VP Customer Experience) and Sander Griffioen (Project Manager, Benelux) talk shop about purpose driven innovation and the great shift from responsiveness to readiness. At the heart of this sits customer centricity and a true mindset to deliver ahead of what’s next in all areas.

This podcast looks end to end along the ideation cycle at how engagement and a constructive space to cultivate ideas leads to a continuous flow of development; how creating the environment to be able to fail fast and move on allows for more creative thinking, higher standards and more targeted solutions to evolving customer needs.

Key to any successful innovations strategy though are the people who make growth possible. Globally, our Prologis Labs and network of Innovations Groups pave the way for solutions development and adoption, however it’s our local colleagues who connect the dots.

“It’s all about customer experience. We listen to our customers and make sure that we know what’s out there to provide ahead of what’s next solutions. We innovate to make the lives of our customers easier. We always build for the long-term, so it’s important that when a customer moves in our building meet and exceed their needs, not only for year one but also year ten,” – said Robbert Heekelaar.

Listen to the new edition of Industry Movers to find out what innovation is coming out of the ground in Europe here: