There is no standard answer to this question. Every company has to find its own way when it comes to reconciling the organization’s goals with the skills and needs of its employees in turbulent times.
As consultants and coaches, we develop such paths with managers at all levels. In our training sessions, employees learn how to deal constructively with themselves and their environment within the company and thus grow together.
Integrated media is revolutionizing the media world. The new magic words are web, videos on YouTube, articles on Facebook, news on Twitter and Whatsapp, virtual reality, apps, paid content and digital streaming on mobile devices. Gemählich sees itself as a psychological companion for these media adaptation processes. We develop, train and coach managers and employees in daily newspapers, magazine publishers, publishing houses and TV and radio broadcasters.
As much as developments in IT have radically reshaped working environments, the industry itself has not been spared. Mergers every few months were and are not uncommon. Short development cycles for software and hardware and emerging aspects such as the human-machine interface demand a continuously high degree of flexibility from IT staff. Gemählich – die beratergruppe helps to shape change and maintain health and motivation by means of compensation strategies.
Global networking is changing logistics. The logistics industry is reinventing itself. Global mergers and acquisitions to form ever more efficient units and the development of new integrated and highly specialized services are shaping this adaptation process. Gemählich sees itself as a psychological companion for change management and a trainer of attitudes and behaviour in highly flexible, digitalized companies.
Constantly changing and expanding, yet always a cultural asset with changing significance: from the papyrus scroll to the codex, the products of the Gutenberg press, later supplemented by prints and digital printing between gigantic print runs and the solitary book-on-demand, the book must assert itself in competition with the Internet and the e-book. Gemählich – die beratergruppe moderates, sorts and proactively shapes the electronic revolution, which is realigning the book trade not only formally but also in terms of content.
Where the proportion of turnover spent on research and development exceeds 3.5%, we are talking about high-quality technology, and over 8.0% about cutting-edge technology. The safest way to retain experience and know-how in a company is with an intact social working environment. Where a change in management and communication culture can contribute to this, Gemählich – die beratergruppe has its strengths. We move people – including those who shape tomorrow’s technology.
When consumers are supplied with useful energy using grid-based energy sources such as electricity, district gas and district heating and fossil or renewable energy sources or nuclear fission are used, many interests have to be taken into account, from the utilization of the energy source to the individual user. Gemählich – die beratergruppe brings together specialists for these multiple contexts and ensures that this know-how is retained by the companies.
Where today’s entrepreneurial goals include not only profitability and liquidity but also security and the preservation of entrepreneurial independence, teams of bankers work in successful financial services institutions under the supervision of BaFin to optimize the client’s financial framework with tailor-made trading systems, investments, financial portfolios and much more. Gemählich – die beratergruppe enables the quick start of such teams and their long-term viability.
The acquisition of third-party funding, higher education laws, Federalism Reform II: the cultivation of science through research and teaching, as well as professional training and further education, also has a changing framework that university management and administration, together with professors, must face in order to assert themselves with their university in the increasingly competitive higher education landscape. Gemählich – die beratergruppe helps universities to move from competition between departments/deaneries to a joint, strong presence.