Esseco Group: the Cascading Values project continues and events come back to life!

On September 9 and 10, the Esseco Group launched the cascading process for the group’s values with the newcomer Addcon, as it had already done with all its other subsidiaries.

The meeting was held at the Hotel Castello di Casiglio, a few kilometers from Como, in a historic, recently restored manor house surrounded by a magnificent centuries-old park.

The workshop aimed to engage the top managers of Addcon, a company that joined the Group in 2019 and which, due to the limitations imposed by the pandemic, had not had the opportunity to learn about the Group’s values. Addcon has facilities in Germany and Norway and specializes in so-called “Green Chemistry” products, particularly in the feed and food sectors.

During the first afternoon of work, we led a discussion on the group’s mission, vision, and values, interviewing Piero and Francesco Nulli—representing the owners—and other top managers of the group. Together, they explained how passion, responsibility, and openness (the group’s three key values) are values that are lived out every day in the company’s various operational areas.

The dinner in the garden provided an opportunity to share stories and experiences in the stimulating and informal atmosphere promoted by the Esseco Group.

The following morning, participants were divided into working groups, where they explored the group’s values and discussed opportunities and ways to convey the key messages of the meeting to all their colleagues.

The main phases into which the various actions were divided were two: the understanding of the values and the ways of transmitting them. Thanks to teamwork and the completion of stimulating questionnaires, each participant was first able to recognize the values within their own professional daily life and then describe how and with which means they would transmit them to the individual operational units.

Our facilitation intervention of the activities gave us, first of all, a lot of good energy, but it was above all a moment of strong momentum for the company Addcon and for its effective integration into the Esseco Group. The expressions on the faces and the atmosphere that was established are signs of the fact that we have once again hit the mark!

Article by: Alessandro Rosti, Partner, Marketing & Digital solutions