Your Key Challenges

In order to appropriately address your key challenges, we listen carefully and build on our multifold experience. We work with companies in successful partnerships to create high-impactlearning that is tailored to the company's special needs. Some of the main business challenges we frequently address are:

• Positioning business for growth

• Increasing organizational flexibility

• Driving innovation

• Dealing with ambiguity and uncertainty

• Sustainable restructuring

• Providing inspirational leadership

• Empowering middle management

• Understanding new markets

• Creating a customer-focused organization

• Implementing and executing strategy

Our Focus on the Customer

It is our strong conviction that a high degree of customization substantially increases the value of a program for the client. The participants' ability to link their learning to their daily challenges is just as important as and is facilitated by a thorough preparation and follow-up process.

Our ability to implement truly customized programs that add significant value is based upon the interconnection of the following elements:

• Our faculty continuously interacts with the business world and has entrepreneurial experience as well as a deep understanding of clients' problems based on its vast experience from working on past projects.

• Program directors have a proven business track record and understand clients' challenges.

• We spend a significant amount of time with clients.

• We follow a thorough and clearly defined five-step design process

Furthermore, the University's Center for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) provides us with up-to-date and proven learning techniques, hence foestering our customized approach.

Five-step-learning Cycle

All our custom programs are highly focused on impact to create growth and value for the individual and your company. In order to reach this goal, we consistently put our clients - with their individual challenges and objectives - at the center of our work. We collaborate closely with you to identify and analyze your needs and to define the resources, processes, and methods that generate value. A thorough preparation and follow-up process further assists our participants in the process of linking their studies to their daily tasks and activities and thus create sustainable value.

Each customized program is built upon a five-step-learning cycle, which clearly exceeds classroom training:

In the design phase, goals are defined, analysis is carried out as necessary, target groups, methods, resources, support, and coordination are defined.

In the preparation phase, participants receive relevant materials such as briefings, cases, E-modules, etc. to prepare for the on-campus-learning-experience.

During the on-campus-training, participants acquire new knowledge and skills, and develop new perspectives.

We highly value the execution phase of the process which follows the program. Different mechanisms can be applied to improve this transfer.

To close the learning cycle, evaluation may take place on different levels (reaction, learning, behavior, results). The results of the evaluation then feed back into the next learning cycle starting with the design phase.