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Obituary Dieter Strametz

We bid farewell to our company founder and shareholder Dieter Strametz, who passed away quite suddenly and unexpectedly on March 11 of this year at the age of 78.

Trust in virtual teams

Virtual teams are becoming increasingly popular, and not just since the restrictions enforced by COVID-19. But are virtual teams also efficient? What makes them efficient? The answer to this question begins with the key to successful cooperation: trust.

So, why exactly do we need trust in virtual teams? In our series of articles, we show you 5 success factors why trust is the key to effective collaboration.

Innovative potential and competence management with the affinity profile

Last year, the book “Innovative Potential and Competence Management” by Manuel Schuchna was published. It addresses a newly designed model for sound topic- and subject-specific personnel and aptitude diagnostics and provides the basis for personnel decisions based on affinity profiles.

We asked the author how he came up with the idea for this novel concept and why it has great significance for the field of diagnostics.

Whitepaper: Making better use of potential

Potentials are composed of several aspects such as basic skills, motives, orientations, values and affinities. They measure characteristics that are more fundamental than competencies and therefore have an effect throughout a person’s entire professional life.

Our new whitepaper shows how profound potential diagnostics can help with your personnel development and lead to the right personnel decisions.

Shaping sustainable transformations in companies

Crises usually reveal how sustainable motivation, cohesion, flexibility, customer orientation, creativity, etc. are or are not present in a culture. A crisis also reveals the need for change, which is often ignored in good times. “The good has always been the enemy of the better,” Voltaire already knew in the 18th century. Now, however, all entrepreneurs, decision-makers and responsible persons in the organizations have been shaken up.

5 Competencies for the future

What does current research say about future competencies? What skills will employees and managers need in the future?

Eight studies with a combined total of more than 3,000 respondents were included in our metastudy. Overall, 64 competencies emerged as particularly important in the studies. We give you an overview and focus on the 5 most important future competencies.

Study of the month: August

What does the future of organizations and work environments look like? Is the current Corona crisis an inhibiting or driving factor for the issues of leadership and structure? What will it be like, the Next Normal?

These are the questions that the current study “The Next Normal – Perspectives on the Future of Organizing”, which was produced in cooperation between the organizational consultancy Metaplan and Haufe, attempts to get to the bottom of. It is based on 100 qualitative expert interviews with managers from the DACH region.