Enterprise Facilitators and Listening to Local communities with Dr. Ernesto Sirolli

Dr. Ernesto Sirolli, the CEO of Sirolli Institute, visits The Future of Teamwork podcast to talk with host Dane Groeneveld about Enterprise Facilitators and how listening to guidance and knowledge from local communities is paramount for building successful businesses as outsiders. Ernesto talks about the origin of his idea to create the enterprise facilitator role and his trinity of management methodologies. The two discuss the success of these initiatives and how effects ripple into wider successes that benefit local economies, and how this could be the cheapest possible corporate social responsibility strategy.

Topics of conversation:

• [0:24] Ernesto's personal and business background
• [1:37] The enterprise facilitator
• [5:45] The trinity of management methodology
• [10:01] Ernesto talks about his early life in the field of development in Africa
• [14:42] Why tell the boss they had it wrong when you're getting the paycheck
• [18:30] Listening to local people, that's what's fashionable now
• [21:21] Looking for gold in communities, hiring for passion intelligence belief purpose and heart
• [23:32] The team at an ethanol plant
• [27:20] The first enterprise facilitator in Minnesota, and the potential for this methodology with governments and corporations
• [31:09] A ripple becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
• [35:10] Working with these groups to talk about education and outreach
• [39:39] Embracing the future of work and looking at parallel economies
• [45:43] The cheapest possible corporate social responsibility strategy