IDEAS X SKILLS Dr. Silvie Klein

"In order to not destroy the future,
the present wisely bases its actions on the past." Tizian

Business Activities

Ideas X Skills conveys up-to-date knowledge and basic competences, supports the analysis of individual and group resources as well as the conception of change-oriented steps. Ideas X Skills acts as a catalyst and accompanies transformation processes on all organizational levels

management consulting services | professional development and individual coaching

Management consulting services

Ideas X Skills supports organizations striving towards sustainability in every respect. We advance their employees’ diversity and inclusion as strategic goals for both their innovation and knowledge management and their human resource development. Emphasis is always on improving the organization’s international performance as well as their sustainability and resilience in the context of strongest competitiveness. We also work with companies intending to introduce diversity management into their organizational culture in order to utilize so far unrecognized opportunities for generating new ideas and innovation.

Our services include

Assessment whether and how the organizational conditions support development towards sustainability innovation
Analysis of the actually effective organizational culture and leadership Developing need-driven transformations for innovation-friendly structures supporting the creation of an inspiring working atmosphere
Training programs for specialists, managers and disseminators Among other things, such programs provide the chance to concretely grasp and experience the opportunities of diversity as strategic orientation
Re-adjustment of the organizational mission statement by including the orientation towards innovation, resilience and sustainability diversity and inclusion.
Moderation of change processes and of team development which constructively advance from existing diversity for the realization of ideas
Consultancy on staff development and staff selection against the background of innovation management, diversity and utilization of knowledge implicitly available within the organization
Participatory knowledge sharing and productively drawing on ideas and concerns from differing directions in order to generate innovation and proactively cope with complexity and change dynamics
Expert’s reports on selected topics and issues

A sustainable, future-oriented organization relies on a productive balance between homo- and heterogeneity in and between teams and work groups. Such a balance is backed up by learnable social competences, knowledge and an awareness of these requirements on all organizational levels.

Improvement can start from diversity already existing within the organization. What is needed, however, is an appropriate framework for diversity to unfold and become visible and to not inhibit processes. Management must be able to realize potential lines of conflict. Moreover, they must have the capability not only of mainstreaming, but also of productively utilizing the crossfire of diversity for generating ideas and solving problems.

Appreciating diversity and utilizing it in innovative ways calls for fundamental changes of our organizational cultures. This requires strategic conviction and adequate attitudes on the executive level and an active role on the part of human resource management in the implementation of this orientation.

Key aspects of activity will be determined in coordination with the organization’s goals and tasks.

Professional development and individual coaching

We focus on advancing social and individual management competences. Formats include training courses, open seminars, in-house-seminars and consultations (including an online consulting service) for specialists, executive staff and graduates.

Individual consulting services

for job applications: application process; self-marketing; analysis of potential, occupational orientation, re-entry into professional life
career advice: preparation for agreement on objectives; coaching for junior management; mentoring programs; programs for working in tandems
preparation for expatriate assignments, relocation and work in international teams
work-life integration

Individual gains of professional career advice: increased self-confidence; improved job performance; competent accomplishment of foreign assignments; increased interest in education, less abandonment of educational endeavors; better motivation for search for employment with less temporal investment into this search.

Organizational gains of professional career advice: more productivity; cost reductions with regard to personnel recruitment, outsourcing, abandoned foreign assignments; employee turnover related to foreign assignments; increased flexibility; improved preconditions for the introduction of new processes and international cooperation (Studies by OECD, EU, World Bank, World Economic Forum).