Bernd Peters – Consultant. Trainer. Coach.

Management development

Management often entails juggling seemingly opposed factors.

• Corporate goals vs employee interests
• Alignment with dynamic markets and customer requirements
vs stable processes and cost reduction

The following principles apply:
Resources need to be allocated. This task represents a daily challenge for managers, since “only what cannot instantly be decided requires decision-making” (Professor Rudi Wimmer).

Is it possible to learn how to manage such apparent contradictions? Yes, it is.

Everything centres on the decision-maker, who is faced with finding a solution to apparently opposing demands. What counts is their perception of reality, which is driven by what they consider to be true, and their approach in general. All these aspects influence performance, job commitment, results and the working environment. It is a fact that the better managers know themselves, the easier they will find it to take targeted and effective action.

Learning about their own strengths and weaknesses in management helps less experienced managers to become effective more quickly and avoid disappointment. At the same time, highly experienced managers could do worse than make a pit stop from time to time to question tried and tested methods, as this will only enhance their own management performance.

Both experienced managers and those new to the job have the opportunity to try out different behaviour in a training scenario. In addition, practising on the job should include a pause now and then to reconsider and make a fresh start if necessary.

Range of services
Developing, implementing and organising tailor-made Management development programmes, including:

In-house qualifications for
• new managers
• experienced executives
• those who manage experts/knowledge workers and
• integration with existing talent management systems, as well as optimisation and further development