About
Michaël Ben-Yosseph
When I graduated from college my career was lined up to become a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). I was trying to follow my path by promotions and in the mean time study to become a CPA in the Netherlands. Trying to do the best by working hard and showing to be a team player.
Over the years I continued to do my very best. The choices I made were going from an accountant into becoming more and more a man of the business which fascinated me, especially manufacturing businesses. How organizations would do their effort in making business work and trying actually to survive, although their strategy was always about growth and expansion.
I saw that working hard wasn't the recipe for success in business, doing the right thing and motivate people was. As I was working close to the board of directors and saw what the directors wanted or the ideas they had and how the management needed to execute this in the field. Sometimes I watch them misinterpreted the strategy and who decisions were made which weren't always good for the company. After I had finished my education to become a CPA, I continued my education studies in the fields of operational excellence, effective working, change management and in general how to run a business. Along the line I understood more and more what made people happy, what their struggles were and how to fulfil ones happiness.
I made it my job to get things right. I did this by talking to the director to understand their goal, which in fact wasn't always clear in the first place nor for them. I made it my job to get this as clear as possible, this by trying to ask the right questions. The clearer things became the better I understood what needed to be done. Different kind of projects in the area of purchasing, sales or operation developments were put on my desk in order to proceed in a more effective way with limited resources and maximum output. From implementing ERP and CRM systems in companies, to getting productions to world class manufacturing, getting sales teams lined up for new business developments or coordinating in the company’s health and safety program I was always helping out in some way.
Also trying to listen to the organisation was my objective. People sometimes know very well what needs to be done in order to be more effective. To put this into a project, change procedures and way of thinking was more complex for those people to execute. This is when I came in and helped them out to change in the way they imagined it.
In the mean time I am a teacher for college students. This ability gave me the sense on how to teach and mentor. I learned how to assist students and help them for their exams or pass their final essay in their last years before their carriers begin.
By then the Effectivity Expert forum was created.