KPN Reviews

Pros

abundant growth opportunities
Strong clarity of purpose in business issues
Fast acting
Not afraid to enact unpopular stances or decisions

Cons

Quite introverted at the top
Much politics at the top
Not very good at incorporating New entries into the Company culture

Advice to Senior Management

Whilst retaining your very imoressive hands on management, become much more sensitive on how to energize and mobilize human talent

Pros

compensation
corporate culture
vision behind sales
performance bonus

Cons

demanding
not a lot of room for initiative

Advice to Senior Management

Search for recommendations from front line sales people and try to incorporate these in corporate policies more.

Pros

good benefits. nice colleagues, easy to reach. central.

Cons

boring. political. big. the hours.

Advice to Senior Management

be fairer

Pros

Innovative, Flexible, Freedom to take on challenges as you see fit

Cons

Not as internationally oriented as it could be

Advice to Senior Management

More involvement

Pros

The cameraderie between people on the workfloor is pretty strong, and internal education programmes are quite good. If the company sees you as a person with high potential, they will give you the oppertunity to educate yourself, and to gain experience.

Cons

senior management does not know where to go with the business. Everyone is just "doing something", and there is no strong leadership that points out where we should go. There are a lot of rules and regulations, written and non-written, that make things slow or sluggish.

Advice to Senior Management

listen to the people on the workfloor, and don't try to hide in your ivory towers whenever things go wrong. Get a sense of direction, choose a course, and stick to it!

Pros

Relatively easy to be a good to excellend performer. There are still a lot of old-school semi governmental employees left, so outperforming those will be easy. As it is a leader in telecoms it is also possible to generate substantial revenues when you have great business sense. Work/life balance is nice as people are not really pushed in general to perform outside of your own job/40 hour work week

Cons

average skill level of employees is low, you are not really challenged

Advice to Senior Management

engage with and challenge the top performing employees