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Eigenmarketing im Interim Management – DDIM Award 2019
\“Finden Sie Ihren USP und vermarkten Sie ihn!\“ – So die klare Botschaft von Kerstin Beyreis und Klara Sachse beim AIMP bootcamp \“USP und Vertrieb\“. Ich bin sehr dankbar, bereits sehr früh im Rahmen dieses 2,5-tägigen Workshops aus erster Hand die Erfolgsfaktoren der Branche erfahren zu haben.
Gute Arbeit ist Voraussetzung für den Erfolg im Interim Management, reicht aber nicht aus, wenn dies nur wenige mitbekommen.
Preisverleihung beim DDIM Kongress
Interview für den DDIM Newsletter
Als überzeugter Netzwerker mit hohem professionellem Anspruch hatte ich mich frühzeitig für eine Aufnahme in die Dachgesellschaft Deutsches Interim Management beworben und bin seit 2015 Mitglied, seit 2019 auch in der Fachgruppe HR.

Arbeiten 4.0
#Arbeiten 4.0: Eine Frage der Perspektive! Wer treibt, wer profitiert und wer bremst? Lest hier den neuen Diskussionsimpuls von @HeuerKatharina und @CLO78 buff.ly/2oJ9gvK
Mein Kommentar:
Der Artikel sortiert und entmystifiziert das durch Buzzwords durchsetzte Thema. Auch die „old economy“ muss die vielfältigen Veränderungen der Arbeitswelt frühzeitig erkennen und aktiv in das eigene Umfeld übersetzen.

HR vacancy bridging with blind spot detection
A vacancy of the HR Manager role is a chance to upgrade the HR function. In this article I am advocating to secure and boost those chances by assigning an experienced HR interim manager (HRIM) to actively bridge the vacancy period.
While the risks are apparent and of both short and long term nature, the chances of an HR management change are less concrete and materialize in the future only. It takes time to find the right person, and even more time till he or she has the organizational savvy and standing to really make a difference. A permanent new hire needs to act carefully, needs to establish trust and relationships first, before being able to make a difference. This takes time and still bears the risk to not be successful at the end.
The HRIM, however, can act immediately, there is no need for politics: I am measured against the operational project tasks and the organization is aware of the focused and temporary scope.
The “blind-spot detection” is a build-in feature you’ll get with the HRIM approach.
As a natural side effect, clients get an organizational assessment of their HR function, its processes, structure and staff. Not from an outside consultant’s perspective, but from a practical inside perspective. The results can then be used to either implement immediate improvements, to initiate smaller projects, or to be addressed early on by the new hire.
Examples of such add-ons during my assignments (in Germany and abroad) were related to organizational aspects (business partnering), HR controlling tools and processes, recruiting and induction for engineers as well as for blue collar workers, social media supported recruiting, and labor cost containment. They span a large spectrum of the HR work and were typically not part of the initial briefings.
The natural and on-the-job mentoring and coaching helped to stabilize and further develop the HR teams in the transition period.
It was striking that these add-on benefits were perceived even more valuable than the smooth continuation of the operation by itself. The benefits of an HRIM approach became quickly visible and brought along further longer-term chances.
These add-ons made the vacancy bridging approach a good investment, beyond the risk mitigation aspect. The waiting time for the newcomer was not lost, but actively used for improvements. The ground was well prepared for the handover to the permanent successor.

How to lead self-managing teams? – Review
How to lead-self managing teams? – A Business Novel
More and more organizations introduce self-managing teams. Managers need to initiate and guide that transformation, although it’s often unclear what their roles will be afterwards. And if a manager does not change with it, they could become an obstacle instead of a motivating factor. This book tells you the story of Mark, an executive in a large organization that has introduced self-management. During a short holiday, Mark visited his grandfather who told him how he had switched careers from being a shepherd to a beekeeper and what he had learned along the way. These lessons applied to Mark’s situation surprisingly well. The chat helped Mark make a list of the things he needed to change and implement. The key lesson is to ‘un-manage’ and unlearn old habits. This book explains how.
Rini van @Solingen’s allegory on the #beekeeper is fun and quick to read and gives a basic insight into #scrum and #selfdirectedteams. The friends of „melting icebergs“ and „moving cheese“ will like this story as well.

PRINCE2 Practioner Zertifizierung
Das erste vom DDIM unterstützte PRINCE2-Komplett-Seminar fand an
3 Wochenenden im Kloster Wennigsen bei Hannover statt.
(www.ddim.de/events/prince2-komplett-seminar-2)
Das Training profitierte vom Praxisbezug und den Erfahrungen der Interim Manager und der Trainerin Silke Astroth, die sich auf diese besondere Zielgruppe sehr gut und flexibel einstellte. PRINCE2 überzeugte alle als Projektmanagementmethodik, die klare und transparente Strukturen bietet und flexibel an unterschiedliche Projektumgebungen anpassbar ist.
Vielen Dank an (von links nach rechts) Maren Petersen, Angelika Hesse, Detlef Much, Frank Brod, Steffen Wuth und Silke Astroth für ein rundes, gemeinsames Lernerlebnis, inkl. „Prüfungsstress“ und erfolgreicher Zertifizierung. Folgetermine werden geplant.
Welche Brücken wollen Sie bauen?
Ich freue mich auf Ihren Anruf!
Dr. Werner Loose
Internationales HR Interim Management
Widerscheinstraße 24
D – 73660 Urbach
Tel.: +49 7181 6693519
Mobil: +49 1573 9307942
Mail: info [at] building-hr-bridges.com
