Great success brings challenges
Of course, employers benefit from excellent self-organization on the part of employees.
But: The flatter corporate hierarchies are designed, the more important a professional and well organised staff is. The question of a suitable balance between freedom for self-determined, autonomous cooperation and control by executives is of great relevance especially for fast-growing companies due to the immense increase in personnel and performance.
In the present case of a company founded just ten years ago with considerable annual growth rates, these challenges were met by rapid success. The staff was well trained, but had a low average age and largely hired directly after graduation, which limits previous experience.
The corporate management is also young, as is usual with start-ups.
With the mandate to steer the existing innovative power in the right direction in a structured way and to positively influence the company's rise to become a leading global player, they turned to KERN AG Training.
Fast and sustainable measures
KERN AG Training then designed competence training as an initial project in close cooperation with the customer in order to curb the dangers of excessive workloads through more effective self-organization and to provide employees with various skills for more efficient day-to-day management.
The initial workshops were divided into three phases and aimed at an international working team: In addition to theoretical approaches, practical examples for everyday use followed in the multimedia training. For this purpose, the participants were able to include the calendars or to-do lists used in everyday life into the measures, so that recommendations could be geared directly to the individual needs of the participants and rapid implementation in the professional life was made possible. With detailed questionnaires for individual evaluation, the successes achieved were quantified in the third step and prepared for corporate management.
The eight-hour courses each consisted of a wide range of practice-oriented group work, targeted individual training measures and general training. The change in pace and style had a positive effect on the learning experience of the participants, who gave positive feedback to KERN AG Training following the measures. As personal working methods and habits of the participants are critically analysed during time and self-management measures, experience has shown that particularly long-lasting learning effects can be guaranteed, so that the trained employees have clearly improved routines.
One partner, many solutions
In the final joint evaluation of the measures, further cooperation on a monthly basis was agreed upon the basis of conclusive participant feedback in order to achieve a company-wide increase in competence of all teams.
The customer also uses KERN AG Training's extensive range of training courses to provide language training to specialized teams - in addition to courses in English, courses in Portuguese are now being pursued, and other languages are also planned. The ability to draw on a highly qualified, international repertoire of trainers is a clear advantage, especially for globally active clients.
The highly successful cooperation on this example shows how modern companies with the right partner can develop completely convincing solutions for both themselves and their employees and continue to benefit from them. KERN AG Training, as a long-term provider of continuing education services, has the experience, the network and the know-how to be able to support customers in an uncomplicated, bespoke and needs-based manner.