Organisational Development

Resilience and Adaptability - Strengthening the Synergy

Organisational Design

Developing a robust organisatonal design means aligning goals, structures and management practices with strategic foresight. In our organizational development processes, we help you anchor key change objectives in your organizational design while at the same time preserving the functionality of what already exists. With an optimal fit between strategy, structure and management practices, you increase the performance and innovative capacity of your entire organization.

Successful Change Requires Change Intelligence

Our Consulting Philosophy
Change Management

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Professional Change Expertise

Organizations are complex systems. Only if this complexity is taken into account can change measures have a deep and lasting impact. That is why we never view your change objectives as isolated goals, but rather with a professional understanding of the relevant contextual factors. This includes, for example, interdependencies between structures, management practices and cooperation and conflict patterns. As experts in organizational systems, we have many years of vocational training in identifying these interdependencies. In turn, our clients always bring a great deal of strategic and operational expertise concerning their developmental objectives and organisational challnges. For us, professional consulting means using these perspectives as a valuable resource in order to develop measures together that are precisely tailored to the specific situation of our customers.

As least as important for realising your change objectives is the factoring in the psychosocial dynamics of change processes. For us, professional organisation developement also means designing transformation processes as a collabortive journey in which your leaders and employees are not viewed as subjects but rather as valued participants. 

There are no simple if-then rules in change processes. Successful change processes therefore thrive on a balance between stringency and adaptability. This is why we apply a great deal of constructive energy and, if necessary, a pinch of persistence to ensure that the change measures are consistently implemented and regularly evaluated. Real and lasting change always entails embarking on a collaborative learning journey and making important adjustments when necessary.

We accompany you through all phases of your all phases of your organizational development - as trusted consultants, process facilitators and sparring partners.

Agile Practices and Structures

In a dynamic market environment, you need teams that face challenges proactively and developing innovative solutions when necessary. With the right agile practices, you can increase the self-organization capability and flexibility of your teams. At least as important as the right practices is, however, the attitude with which these practices are applied. We help you integrate agile principles into your corporate culture and thus strengthening the solution orientation and adaptability of your entire company.

Konstruktive Führungskultur entwickeln

Developing Your Leadership Culture

There is hardly any area of cooperation that remains untouched by a company's leadership culture. Developing your company's leadership culture therefore means harnessing the power of a constructive leadership culture to unleash your company's full potential.

Trying to change a management culture by decree, however, is doomed to failure from the outset. So what viable alternative is there? How can you succeed in developing your company's leadership culture?

Successfully developing your leadership culture requires an attractive mission statement. Left to its own devices, however, a mission statement quickly runs the risk of degenerating into mere lip service. In order to enable real change , leadership practices need to be alignedwith the new mission statement. A decisive aspect of successful leadership culture development is therefore the synchronization of the leadership mission statement and leadership practices.

Aligning leadership practices with your mission statement is a good start. It is,however, also crucial to take the next step. Why? Because real change inevitably results in a discrepancy between wanting to and being able to. Real change therefore requires both leadership development measures and collaborative spaces in which goals and development paths are regularly evaluated.

Together we develop a road map for establishing a leadership culture in sync with both your goals and values and the operational challenges of your company.

Feedback Culture

Feedback Culture

An open and constructive feedback culture is based on both mutual appreciation and the open and constructive discussion of challenges and opportunities for improvement. Instituionalizing a constructive feedback cultur is not just a question of individual empowerment. It is also a question of the right feedback formats.

Strategic Positioning

Strategic Positioning

In a dynamic market environment, you need clear strategic goals. With the right level of detail, they act as guard rails and provide orientation. Implementating strategic goals, however, inevitably entails dealing with complex interdependencies. In order to manage this complexity effectively we recommend a participative and iterative approach.

Intercultural Cooperation

Intercultural Cooperation

In our globalised world intercultural contexts permeate many aspects of our working lives. Working in an intercultural context bears both chances and risks. We help you establish a common understanding of shared values and professional norms, while discovering the benefits intercultural differences.

Meeting Management

Meeting Management

In an increasingly complex working world, well-coordinated meeting structures are essential. We help you to reduce your coordination costs through efficient coordination formats and decision-making processes.

Interface Management

Interface Management

Smooth processes at the interfaces between teams and company divisions are crucial for successful collaboration. Together, we identify areas of tension, create clarity in roles and responsibilities and develop practical solutions for complex interdependencies.

Conflict Management

Conflict Management

The longer a conflict remains unresolved the more entangled, messy and taxing it becomes. We help you understanding the underlying issues and find lasting solutions.

Strategic Positioning

In a fast paced competitive environment, companies need clear strategic goals to succeed. Implementing strategies is, however, always a complex process. Using the expertise of all relevant stakeholders in an integrative strategy development process is key to managing this complexity. Use our expertise in strategic positioning to accelerate your success.

Feedback Culture

Building a constructive feedback culture is a matter of combining a climate of recognition and mutual appreciation with a clear and actionable evaluation of performance. We help establish constructive feedback practices as an integral part of your company culture.

Intercultural Cooperation

In our globalised world intercultural contexts permeate many aspects of our working lives. Working in an intercultural context bears both chances and risks. We help you understand intercultural differences, explore opportunities for collaboration and establish a common understanding of shared values and professional norms.

Meeting Management

An increasingly complex and dynamic market environment requires well-tuned meeting structures. We help you reduce coordination costs and establish effective decision making processes.

Team Development

Establishing a cooperative, trust based working climate in your teams improves employee satisfaction and lays the groundwork for a healthy organisational culture.

Conflict Management

The longer a conflict remains unresolved the more entangled, messy and taxing it becomes. We help you understanding the underlying issues and find lasting solutions.

Success is less and less an accomplishment of lonely heros. In an increasingly complex and dynamic world companies need the collaborative ressources of well functioning teams.

Team Development

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Creating a Healthy Team Environment

With the increasing complexity and volatility of today's market dynamics, companies can rely less and less on the performance of outstanding individuals. In order to remain competitive, the resources, expertise and cooperation of entire teams are required. Cooperative teamwork with a strong commitment to the overarching team goals, independent action and solution-oriented thinking - this is the goal and aspiration of most team leaders, and often of most team members too.

Teamwork, however, doesn’t always meet the desired and necessary standards. Never ending discussions with ambiguous results, unclear responsibilities, an ineffective workflow – stress factors that have high costs. Among the most typical costs are bottle necks, high mistake margins and frequent team conflicts.

With the right teambuilding measures, you promote a results-oriented cooperation in which your team can develop its full potential. Together we develop team building measures tailored to your specific team history, team composition and your concrete development goals. These often include the following: 
 
  • defining team goals
  • identifying dysfunctional team patterns
  • activating team resources
  • defining rolls and
    responsibilities
  • optimizing team coordination 
  • establishing a constructive feedback culture