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Growth & Digitalization Strategies
Digital strategy and operational excellence for automotive Tier1 supplier
Developed digital strategy and target status, supported by multiple (remote) transformation workshops to align client’s leadership team to collaboratively create the future
Transformation Workshops
Transformation workshop for mining company, middle East
Planned, created and conducted 2-day off-site kick-off to enable the new CEO to open major transformation project with his leadership team (100ppl); collection of pains, gains and insights across 5 major transformation topics as well as accomplished alignment and full buy-in of whole leadership team
Executive Coachings
Consulted a variety of people: line workers (e.g., Audi), managers in large start-ups, and self-employed entrepreneurs up to CEOs of multibillion-dollar companies.
Collaborative development of the business units’ digitalization strategy in 12 weeks for an automotive supplier
Situation
A business unit of a German automotive Tier1 supplier, traditional component producer, needed to act and investigate the potential of digitalization as costs, but not revenue, were increasing. A new business unit head took over and related units were one step ahead in digitalization.
Activities
- Analyzed value chain, including competitive and disruptive action in the market
- Interviewed senior leadership to identify pains, gains and white spots
- Developed digital strategy and target status, supported by multiple (remote) transformation workshops to align client’s leadership team to collaboratively create the future
- Educated teams on digitalization, digitization and modern collaboration tools
- 12-week project
Results
- High-level market/ competitor analysis and value chain analysis Scenario planning
- Target picture development with scenario planning approach (vision, mission, ambition as well as new digital business models)
- Alignment of leadership team on digitalization efforts (and need to act fast)
2-day off-site leadership workshop to kick-off company’s biggest transformation project ever (industrial company Middle East)
Situation
A regional industrial company, with stable and growing sales over the last 20 years, built its vision: To continue the success story and grow 10 times more within the next 20 years. The CEO, who had recently started, wanted to gain insights and buy-in of his leadership team. For that, a transformative, inspirational, fun and memorable transformation workshop was needed.
Activities
- Planned program for an active, informative and collaborative 2-day workshop (pains, gains collection)
- Prepared presentation such as the CEO’s communication, as well as a fun, but fact-based, introduction to move the team to think outside the box / the comfort-zone
- On-boarded and trained 10 young talents to facilitate 10 parallel booths for 5 core topics across the business
- Conducted 2-day workshop, including energizers
- Extracted key insights from over 100 people in 50 discussion rounds
Results
- Enabled CEO and team to kick-off transformation project with 3 major decisions on day 2, based on insights from day 1
- Highly motivated leadership team to get things moving
Executive Coaching (CEO, multi-billion $ company) – renewal of mindset to build the leaders of tomorrow
Situation
An industrial company, being on the path of change form the old paradigm to anew one. Having – as many other companies – issues to attract and in particular to retain talent, where identify it’s also about the peoples, aka. managers, ability to lead others. To break that old paradigm, it needs starts from the top – and that was what the CEO did: he started with his mindset and understanding of leadership – welcoming CheerLeadership as a new inspiriting style.
Activities
- 1:1 coaching session to challenge his existing habits, routines, and in particular ways of working like how he does work and how he leads other people, understanding that – in the pressurable situations – you lead other not better than you lead yourself
- Working through the elements “From manager to leader“ and „inspired actions“
- Creating an action plan how to make shifts permanent in the organization, i.p. direct reports
Results
- Enabled CEO to move forward in a new way of Leadership – to lead himself and others by inspired path and cheering along that
Growth Strategies
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New business model development & corporate strategy (retail, e-commerce): Developed (Amazon-like) marketplace from scratch in the SEE region, including a TV-sales channel across functions such as strategy (USP, mission), assortment, partners, marketing and operations
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Growth strategy (TMT, mgmt. consultancy/ cyber security): Developed long-term strategic plan for regional expansion, incl. business cases in EMEA
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Growth strategy and operational excellence (consumer goods, MLM): Developed strategic growth plan (mission, values, regions) and digitalization plan for the sales taskforce (100k+ ppl) to transform “producer only” to a service provider too
Transformation Workshops
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Retail, e-commerce: Project “New business model development in the SEE region”, was supported by two 2-day transformation workshops across all 7 major business topics; first conducted before project start to accelerate knowledge sharing and decision making (5 major decision to set the direction); second conducted before last quarter of project timeline to decide on a business scenario, release investments and set the target for the next phase
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CPG: Conducted stand-alone 2-day workshop to review strategic direction (mission, old & new revenue streams), create new business opportunities, incl. t-shirt sizing, to find growth opportunities.
Executive Coaching
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Coaching is not about the hierarchy level, it’s about the Coaches’ ability and capability to quickly get the gist of it, read between the lines, to spot unspoken but important messages, to see patterns, which are so familiar or subtle that the person itself cannot see it, and to see the persons’ full potential which the person itself may not see or believe – yet.
