Our Mission - What do we stand for?
People are rarely the main focus of organisations, which means that work related stress and pressure predominate, leading to dissatisfied employees and weak organisational performance. Our mission at DSG is to encourage engaged, honest and realistic leadership focused on the employees’ well-being, what will consequently reflect on the organisational health. Attention to human needs is an important factor in the success of any organisations. We believe that a happy colleague is a productive colleague.
DSG aims to use the diverse disciplines and experiences within this platform to connect, support and inspire leaders and also each other, offering colleagues and organisations an approach towards committed, honest and realistic leadership.
Our Vision - What are we aiming for?
Our dream is that leaders of organisations worldwide inherently link the success of the organisation to the well-being and dedication[1] of employees: people first. Engaged and connected leaders, who inspire and support their team, ensure a safe working environment[2] where employees grow, flourish and thrive. Leadership can also be a human process where both managers and employees have a continuous personal development and are able to succeed in their working and personal lives.
How does DSG do this?
Based on our core values and with insight and reflection, we establish a dialogue with leaders, listening and offering a feedback on what can be improved to have employees’ well-being figuring on the priorities list of organisations to obtain good results.
When are we successful?
We are already successful. The snowball effect aiming involved, honest and realistic leadership has already started within the DSG platform. The bigger the snowball effect, the more successful we are.
At DSG, we don't necessarily have to be unique or distinctive. The most important is that more people and organisations spread the DSG philosophy, which focus on vitality and well-being.
[1] Schaufeli – Research 2015 – ‘Engaged leadership’
[2] The integrated approach to employment concerns terms of employment, job content, working conditions and employment relationships: the four A's. We go for the 5 A's plus Attention.
Our core values
Our core values are our fundamental beliefs and ideals that we want to diffuse. They are the core of what we strive for and the base on which we shape our own behaviour.
How do the core values hold up in the heat of battle? Mainly by opening a dialogue and pointing out what is not going well. Being clear to each other. This is how we want to interact with each other within the DGS platform.
We define our core values as follows:
Concern
Connection with fellow human beings/colleagues and the organisations in order to achieve goals based on joint responsibility, whereby everyone is acknowledged based on attention and empathy.
Sincerity
Honest. Reliable, sincere, pure and transparent actions and, above all, clear.
Realism
Maintaining balance between the needs and well-being of employees and organisation results.
Security
An open environment where people can express themselves based on respect and trust and where people remain connected to themselves and dare to be vulnerable. Mistakes are allowed!
Equality
An environment in which everyone is respected as a person - free of ego - and matters at every level within the organisation.