Expertise and experience

Karl’s experience is focussed around the development and implementation of change, leadership and organisational concepts. The mastery of these intricate processes requires a firm hand and an interdisciplinary knowledge base that goes beyond many companies’ immediate area of speciality, and this is precisely what Karl has to offer. In addition, he has a background in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, trade, management, banking, insurance, consultancy, high-tech, telecoms and New Economy businesses.

Approach

Karl’s management consulting enhances and modifies the behaviour of people in organisations. His work leverages the latest research results and consulting methodologies by applying the principles of performance management. He involves employees across hierarchies by treating them as individual personalities: their self-image, their values, their goals and their habits; all these features are actively enlisted in the work at hand. He uses both individual and group dynamics together with performance management techniques to quantify and strategically enhance an organisation’s total performance.
Karl’s ability to combine soft and hard data quickly, in practical, client-focussed ways, and his skills at deploying this information to create synergies, can make all the difference to the success of your company.

Services

Karl’s expertise and experience are in strategic re-orientation, restructuring and HR development. All of his services have stood the test of time, and all have proved successful again and again. Consulting services are delivered in English, German and French.

• Change Management and organisational development for a fast and effective change process
• Integration support and re-organisation before and after mergers or spin-offs
• Development and implementation of strategies for the implementation of core values
• Preparation for privatising public or semi-public enterprises
• Development of management tools to implement changes across hierarchies, and cultures
• Development of global management cultures and processes
• Team-building and leadership enhancement for top management
• Training in self-management techniques
• Help for self-help in complex situations: intervention and confrontation via coaching and counselling
• Crisis intervention
• Evolution and deployment of communication culture
• Integration of distinct corporate cultures
  

Principles and methodology

The following scientific principles and methodology are the basis of Karl’s consulting work:

• Personality theory and organisational psychology in leadership and behaviour
• Industrial psychology and engineering for organisational optimisation
• Behavioural, performance and leadership-potential assessment
• Personality and personal-behaviour models (such as LIFO, BELBIN)
• Motivational theories and approaches
• Gestalt psychology as a means to comprehensive behavioural modification
• Transactional analysis by Eric Berne and related conflict-solving and communications processes
• Humanistic psychology such as Theme-Centred Interaction by Ruth Cohn and integrative methodologies by Hilarion Petzold
• Group-dynamics approaches to the management of group processes
• Coaching and personal consulting for interventions in the interest of behavioural modification and development of leadership potential
• Analysis and development of management team performance - Management Team Review and HR Portfolio
• Situational Leadership according to Kenneth Blanchard
• Change Management: systematic support for a rapid and effective implementation of change processes in organisations
• Strategic dialogue for strategy-development, decision-making and deployment in management teams
  

Network

Karl’s professional community is an international network of successful consultants in England, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland. If needed, teams of experienced consultants are formed within this network to deliver maximum expertise and impact for the client company’s benefit.