Enabling sustainable growth

Effective start-up support

Surprised by your own success? Still no plan for the next growth step? Or are you unsure how to lay the foundations for sustainable business management?

As the founder of two of my own companies and with permanent positions in large companies, I know the start-up spirit just as well as the air of a large corporation. Together with me, you will lay the foundation for sustainable growth, an increasing professionalization of corporate management while at the same time maintaining an innovative corporate culture.

Individual steps of start-up support

    • Get to know the reaons support is needed.

    • Gather expectations around the focus of support.

    • Provide an sense of possible approaches.

    • Decide together whether a collaboration would make a meaningful impact.

    • Discuss the proposal for support and refine it collaboratively.

    • Prepare the necessary support measures, be they workshops, coaching, or something else altogether and handle logistics (e.g. invite participants to preview the content, create material, etc.).

    • Implement concrete measures.

    • Ensure transfer of new skills into everyday life.

    • Collect and incorporate feedback on an ongoing basis.

    • Review the impact of changes.

    • Identify and address any remaining needs or celebrate achievements.

Do you wish to prepare your start-up for the next phase of growth?

Take the first step now and get in touch with me!

Examples of past support for start-up

Short webinars for start-up founders

Prompt: Raising awareness among startup founders with respect to topics dealing with organisational development and human resources

 

Contents of the short webinars

  • Methods for finding and anchoring a purpose.

  • Strategies to connect values and leadership.

  • Input on salary models.

Review of readiness for the next growth steps

Prompt: Rapid growth as a company, which pushes structures and processes to their limits.

 

Contents of the support

  • Initial meeting with the startup founders to define the focus.

  • First workshop with core team to identify where action was needed in terms of organisational structure and roles, cultural work and employee empowerment as well as strategy focus.

  • Subsequent workshops to target these identified topics with subsequent support to implement specific points of action.

  • Final discussion with startup founders to review effect of implemented changes.

Leadership development for startup founders as part of a CAS

Prompt: Empowerment of startup founders around leadership topics

 

Contents of the workshops

  • 1 day on leadership: Clarification of how to understand leadership and the resulting tasks, introduction to leadership styles and hands-on experience with practical examples, presentation of leadership tools with discussion of their application, discussion of psychological safety and its importance for teams.

  • 1 day on leadership communication: Introduction to communication with a focus on persuasiveness and negotiation tactics, in-depth study of communication in the context of recruitment interviews and dealing with conflicts.

  • 1 day on self-management: Clarification of this key concept followed by immersion in topics such as dealing with stress, time management and prioritisation, establishing a work-life balance and strengthening one’s own resilience.