Index Team Retreat 2022

Everyone is a leader, and everyone is a follower.

Last week the entire Index team gathered in Turkey for our Annual Team Retreat.

As most of our team works remotely, we had the time to reconnect in person, work together for 4 days, have fun, share learnings, and see the company's culture come to life. ???

The name of the retreat was the "Vision of 1000 devs - i1000". During this time, we were able to strengthen our values and shape our strategy for 2025. The retreat brought us together around some squad-gluing and strategy-defining activities. We planned the way to the future of work through intense workshops, as well as explored a team-building safari with jeeps, spent time by the sea, and reconnected with our colleagues.

Safari on the Jeeps with the team

Each of us has the power to contribute and shape the future of Index. It all starts with “I”.

Something that I learned early in my founding career is that culture is the offspring of the actions and behaviors of the leadership team. This means that it all starts with “I” - the founder, CEO, VP, and employee.

• If a leader is carrying, the company and the employees will be more carrying.???
• If a founder is humble, the company will tend to establish trust and respect, as the main values.???
• If a leader is innovative, the employees will facilitate a culture that moves quickly and brings new ideas to life.

Index Team Workshop on VMV (Vision, Mission, Values) and Strategy to win

Values are not just culture to us.

The second thing I have learned is that culture isn’t static and is constantly evolving as more people join the team and bring their own views and values.?

Values help us hire the best people, take risks, learn from mistakes and reach beyond boundaries. They are what differentiates us from others and help us create a high-performance working environment where people feel proud to work.?

“If you have talented individuals on the team who want to make a difference, believe in the mission of your company, and express gratitude, don’t hold them back.”

Our culture consists of the 3P model. We call it the Play, Purpose, Potential mindset to all our employees, as a way to promote learning, improve leadership traits of new and existing team members, and maintain a fast-growing work environment. The biggest shift I’ve seen since implementing this mindset was a change for the better in our culture, values, and vision.?

Working on Index strategy for 2025

We leverage our values as a guiding force

Our values are R E M O T E

Respect people's emotions, backgrounds, and points of view. Acting from our hearts we seek to understand how we can best support each other. Be humble and ready to help.?

Extra Mile. We always exceed others' high expectations. We do our work beyond what is possible, we make more effort than is expected.?

Move quickly. At an exponentially-scaling startup, time gained or lost has compounding effects. Try to get the results as fast as possible, but without compromising our other values.

Olways Learner. Be open to learning something new every day. Ask the question - What coaching do you have for me? What can I do better? What is the learning here?

Team Player. We hire A-players and Team players, we empower our developers, employees, and vendors to embrace the principle of high-standard and teamwork.

Extra Smile. We look to the positive side in every situation. We give honest feedback and always look for the bright side.

We leverage our values as a guiding force and made collaboration an ongoing mission, which helped us build a vision with our employees coming from different backgrounds. Everyone had the opportunity to speak their minds and provide honest feedback on what can we improve for our clients and developers and how we should work together as a team.?

Gala night to celebrate our Top-Performers.

We're on a Mission ??

We help every organization on the planet realize its potential by providing outstanding talent.

When we are at our Best, the World gets better because our Talent builds amazing products from anywhere for our clients and this way makes the world better.

We are building a global platform of remote engineers that can improve the chance of competing and building software products for many businesses, limited otherwise by in-country recruiting.

We are contributing to advancements in technology by supporting remote work, creating a more distributed world.

Thank you, everyone, for being an ambassador of our values.?

Big up to the entire leadership crew for this great event! ???

Part of Index Leadership team

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