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Divante is a Software House from Europe, headquartered in Poland and employing about 150 people. We always stress the development of our employee’s abilities. That’s why we took the opportunity to find new ways of knowledge sharing while designing the new office. Maybe some of this ideas will inspire you.

Bookcrossing

The idea is quite simple — share a book. All of us have good books in our libraries lying around and collecting dust. Through bookcrossing, we give them the opportunity of a second life. It was extremely easy to bring this idea to life.

All we needed was to buy a bookshelf, put it into our “chill room” and write an email to everyone at the company. Any employee can bring as many books as they want, not only about eCommerce. As a result, we gathered a considerable number of books — there are so many of them, that the shelf became overcrowded almost instantly, and we were forced to commandeer a window sill for overflow.

Bookcrossing Bookshelf

Inspiration

We also have a multiple walls displaying our recommended “must reads” books. We use QRCodes and NFC labels to take our employees and our guests directly to the Amazon page of the specific book 🙂

must reads

TED

We all know TED talks. And we all know how inspiring they can be. At Divante, there’s a constant flow of emails recommending newly discovered TED talks.

That’s why we decided to choose the most inspiring ones and add them in as murals throughout the office. Now, every time you go to the kitchen to make your morning coffee or have a break waiting for another meeting, you can find some inspiration in a golden thought from a TED talk on the wall right next to you.

Shut up and listen TED 🙂

EDU Hours

We’ve managed to organize many interesting EDU Hours since 2013 when our HR department initiated the idea. They observed that as our company grows, individuals and entire departments have fewer interactions between one another.

The goal of this series is to animate the flow of knowledge throughout the office. It’s a series of mini-prelections (each of them takes 1 hour), led every Thursday by one of Divante’s employees. Since its origin, we’ve managed to organize many interesting EDU hours that included topics on marketing, technology, soft skills, project management and more.

Now, in the new office we are able to refine this idea and make it even easier to share people’s expertise with others thanks to conference rooms that are adapted for such events.

Future Tech Hours

The world of technology is changing constantly. As an IT company, we need to be up-to-date with all the nuances of the industry.

That’s why the idea of Future Tech Hour came up — to share knowledge about the newest solutions and inspire our employees. Every time we invite a prelegent from outside of our company — sometimes, that’s our employees that suggest us, who to invite.

We have managed to organize meetings about: big data, beacons, blockchain, vr, ai, gamification, and.. cosmos exploration 🙂

The meetings in the office are only for Divante employees but we livestream these prelections as well.

Newsletters — you can try this now

Thanks to Revue, personal newsletters are hot again. Every week we send an internal newsletter that contains several articles worth reading.

What is more important: every 2 weeks we send a technical newsletter — this is a much longer piece of content. Every Tribe share their ideas, modules and worth-reading articles. Every Tribe write very personal content and then we combine this all together to create a newsletter. I think that this personal approach is crucial.

It’s common that people spend 2+h studying this newsletter.

ps. If you like reading, you will love our Knowledge Center at Divante.co

Knowledge Center at Divante.co

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Author of the original blog post: Agata Mlodawska.

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