Work with me – solutions for individuals and organizations
I am happy to accompany you through your decisions or transformation journey, build up your „change muscles“ , help shed light on some complex questions keeping you busy on a daily basis, or check the basic wiring of your structures and processes for efficiency and effectiveness. Solutions will always be tailor-made. However, here are some general ideas:
Solutions for individuals
The Decision Walker
Are you stuck in a decision? Again? Or just this once? Inspite of all the books you read and all the seminars you took on decision making – all of them valuable – here you go again. Stuck.
These are the situations where you might want to give me a call and ask me to walk with you. To get unstuck. When I walk with you through your decision making process, I listen in a different way. The words and phrases you use and how you use them tell me an entire story. They tell me, for instance, which decision making instance – your gut, heart or brain -is in the drivers seat in that particular context and which instance might not get a say. And how the dynamics of this inner dialogue is affected by and affects your interactions with others.
On the basis of what I hear, I will ask you specific questions that shed light on these dynamics, and provide specific advice (if wanted and warranted). This can support the translation process between those decision making instances, so that they can learn to cooperate better and with more ease – inside of you and with others.
Over time, this will help you understand your very own decision making process better. Once you deeply understand this process, taking decisions get’s easier – step by step. Until you can walk entirely on your own. This is the ultimate aim of my work – to walk away, eventually, because you no longer need me. Just one word of caution: What I will not do, is steer you in any direction or take decisions for you. Because all we do is about your process to unfold.
The Sounding Board
You could use a sparring partner? A sounding board who asks you unusual questions so you can develop an entirely new perspective on things? Someone who is able to hold the space you need in order to think things to the end, and who is courageous enough to challenge you in that space? Sounding Board solutions can be scaled ad lib and might be a perfect start for whatever comes next.
They go beyond immediate and current daily decision making and are rather about the long-term strategic. We will do some decision walking together, but we will also sit together, staring into the fire.
Solutions for organizations
The Cooperation Pilot
Is there a project that got stuck or go haywire because somehow things got “lost in translation” between different silos? Did you want to introduce a global policy and somehow cultures clash over this and all hell brakes loose? Do you dream about up-/down- and cross-selling specific products or services between different businesses and yet, somehow things don’t really flow?
Cooperation hiccups and inefficiencies can have many symptoms, but they all have one underlying cause – an ineffective flow of communication. The reasons for this are manifold. They can be stuctural or situational, or both. I will thus navigate along with your teams through their relevant processes, structures and interaction practices to find the knots and help to untangle them. So that things can flow and stuff gets done.
The Analyst
Do you see a recurring pattern of projects getting stuck or going haywire, cultures clashing, things being „mistranslated“ along the daisy chains of escalation and reporting lines, and other such things?
Sounds like you need someone to check the general wiring of your place, i. e. processes, structures, reporting lines, systems and all that operational stuff that affects the flow of communication and energy in your company. Someone who walks through your organisation, listens and looks into the real, deep-rooted root causes of things that went wrong and helps to fix them. Who adds an entirely new dimension to risk management, prevention and decison making ability.
Analyst assignments can be a postmortem exercise, shedding light on your past and present, or a design exercise, shining the light ahead from the present into your future. Or both. They can also be the result of some cooperation piloting that revealed structural issues. One word of caution: You will not always like what I find. Because had it been a popular topic to address, it would have been solved a long time ago. So this is a service for intrepid clients only.
The Speaker
You are looking for someone to spark or kindle a meaningful discussion on things that matter? On a specific, burning topic chosen by you, or a more general topic that is „somehow in the air“? On something that will benefit from being seen in a different light? Speaking engagements can be embedded into various formats, such as fireside chats or panels. They can also be the result of some piloting or analyzing.