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"When the storm comes, some build walls and others build windmills". Windmills represent movement instead of paralysis, progress instead of stagnancy. Use the learning opportunities presented by the storm to motivate and commit your own management talents and experts, to develop innovative products and services for tomorrow, to reassess and further develop existing strategies, procedures and structures, with the overarching goal of making your company more competitive in the upswing to follow.
Yours, Volker Maschmeyer
phone: 0049 511 9 69 68 21, mail: v.maschmeyer@contur-online.de
Topics of this Newsletter:
- What to do in the event of budget cuts?
- Focusing – use limited resources intelligently
- Article series "Cooperation and communication as the basis of culture"
What to do in the event of budget cuts?
Our answer: project portfolio management
Managing projects in times of restricted budgets is not an unusual challenge; on the contrary: it is the rule rather than the exception.
Limited resources and thinking in projects are inseparable. What companies have to learn now is not project management per se, but how to manage their project portfolio. This is where the greatest potential is to be found. The aim is to have an overview of all projects and to control the portfolio in a systematic way. Project portfolio management is more than just a set of evaluation tools; it is an integrated approach that interlinks objectives, integration, evaluation and communication. The synergies inherent in this procedure far exceed the synergies in a simple list of reductions. And they have a long-lasting effect. more...
Dr Peter Belker
phone: 0049 69 7890 19 67, mail: p.belker@contur-online.de
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Focusing – use limited resources intelligently
These days we are seeing many managers and employees stunned into paralysis. We are convinced that, even when cash is scarce, investing in personnel and organizational development is essential to a business's success, because it makes it possible to revitalize the people involved and support a targeted (re)alignment of the business. Three questions are decisive here:
1. How can I hold on to good people?
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Involve them in strategically important projects. more...
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Provide them with a mentor for their further development. more...
2. How can I learn and experience leadership?
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Motivate yourself and your employees. more...
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Steer your team as a whole, across boundaries. more...
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Reflect on what you've achieved so far (e.g. after 100 days). more...
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Learn from other managers by exchanging knowledge. more...
3. How can I balance strategic goals with reorganization that is needed in the short term?
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Do not lose sight of your goal on the horizon. more...
Günther Wittig
phone: 0049 941 297979 82, mail: g.wittig@contur-online.de
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Article series "Cooperation and communication as the basis of culture"
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CONTUR GmbH Training, Coaching & Consulting
Hannover, Frankfurt, Regensburg, Sibiu, Timisoara
phone 0049 511 9 69 68 0
fax 0049 511 9 69 68 50
mail: mail@contur-online.de
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| Training recommendation for Project Management
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Successfully Negotiating and argueing within Project Work
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Techniques for Working and Self Management for successful Project Work
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Critical Situations within Projects
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Business Administration and Cost Effect Analysis for Project Managers
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Leading and Cooperation for Project Managers: a simulation game in the product life cycle
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CONTUR's open leadership program
Our personnel development program strengthens and enhances practical leadership expertise, creates a space for cooperative reflection on your own leadership behavior, and promotes the transfer of what you learned to your daily management tasks. Starting in fall 2009 it is open to participants from various companies. It includes compulsory training modules, individually selectable incentive courses and study groups. more...
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It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.
Oscar Wilde
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