Sustainable, high-impact growth is rarely a strategy problem—it is a leadership one. Recently, Hive17, led by Tim Wieringa, partnered with Sika Vietnam to design and deliver a two-day leadership retreat focused on strengthening collective leadership and building an amazing workplace. At the core of the experience was MIRAI: Building Amazing Workplaces, an immersive business simulation designed to help leaders navigate complexity while balancing performance, people, and long-term sustainability.
As Sika Vietnam enters its next phase of expansion, leadership complexity increases—not only in scale, but in expectations. Leaders are required to deliver results today while safeguarding wellbeing, engagement, and organisational resilience for tomorrow.
Hive17 designed the retreat to address this reality head-on. Rather than focusing solely on frameworks or best practices, the program centred on how leaders make decisions under pressure—how they balance short-term business priorities with long-term people and culture outcomes, and how leadership ownership must extend beyond functional accountability to collective responsibility for the whole system.
A defining element of the retreat was MIRAI: Building Amazing Workplaces, an immersive business simulation co-created with Michael Jenkins and grounded in his work, including Toxic Humans. The simulation created a realistic, pressure-tested environment where leaders experienced firsthand how everyday leadership choices shape wellbeing, trust, performance, and long-term organisational health.
Throughout the simulation, leaders were challenged to navigate competing priorities—delivering results while protecting team energy, responding to immediate operational demands while investing in future capability, and making decisions that balanced business outcomes with human impact. These trade-offs surfaced the true tensions leaders face daily and made visible the consequences of over-indexing on short-term performance at the expense of long-term sustainability.
MIRAI also reinforced the concept of leadership ownership. Rather than delegating responsibility “downwards” or isolating issues within functions, leaders experienced the need to collectively own culture, ways of working, and decision quality. Wellbeing was explored not as an HR initiative, but as a direct outcome of leadership behaviours, clarity, trust, and how work gets prioritised and executed.
By placing leaders inside these systemic dynamics, the simulation enabled deep conversations about what it means to build a future-fit organisation—one where people can perform, adapt, and thrive over time.
The experience created strong alignment within the management team around their shared role and responsibility. Leaders moved beyond functional viewpoints to a holistic understanding of how their decisions impact not only results, but also engagement, resilience, and collaboration across the organisation.
The team collectively defined clear ways of working grounded in transparency, collaboration, and trust. They committed to practical changes such as improving active listening, applying feedback more intentionally, and redesigning management meetings to include reflection on successes and failures—reinforcing learning rather than blame.
Critically, the team also committed to jointly shaping and clearly communicating the country vision and strategy, while establishing a robust decision-making framework that strengthens ownership, accountability, and execution at all levels.
This MIRAI-enabled retreat marked a powerful starting point—not an endpoint—in Sika Vietnam’s leadership journey. With continued execution sessions and group and individual coaching, the organisation is ensuring that insights translate into sustained behavioural change.
By investing in this future-fit leadership experience with Hive17, Sika Vietnam is actively balancing people and performance, short-term delivery and long-term impact. The result is a stronger, more connected leadership collective—capable of building an amazing workplace and driving sustainable growth in an increasingly complex environment.
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