“Mr. Schmidt has seniority combined with tranquillity and a clear overview. He manages to get organizations to align themselves with him from the board to the working level.”
Thomas Böck
CEO, CLAAS KGaA mbH (Germany)
A crisis reinforces our negative behavior. Negative behavior inevitably leads to continuous failures. We get stuck. Which of your patterns slows you down over and over again?
Ask yourself and you will get the answer in 4 minutes.> Self-check
We adapt to different customer expectations
and develop the best solution for our customers.
In the past following customers have trusted in our competence:
„I simply want to extend a sincere ‚Thank You‘ for the tremendous contribution you made to our project success. You joined the project team at time of great difficulty that also coincided with a significant restructuring within our Organisation.
I very much appreciated your ability to quickly grasp the big picture, our complex technical environment and processes, on the one hand, while simultaneously building strong and trustful relationships with all necessary stakeholders internally at all levels in our company and with the end Customer.
Your experience, credibility, personal maturity and operating style fitted very well to the specific needs we had. Throughout your assignment, despite many challenges and setbacks, you remained patiently focused on the end goal, exhibiting a high octane energy and performance level and an infectious motivational can do attitude that built team confidence, trust and loyalty.
We are all personally and professionally stronger having had the opportunity to work with you.
I do hope we collaborate again.”
Peter Reilly
Product Line Projects Director, Valeo Ireland
„With his structured approach, Thomas recognized and eliminated the real problems of the product and the project environment in a very short time and thus set standards.
His human skills led to the fact that the teams in different locations and countries, which had previously been at odds with each other, once again worked together constructively and with pleasure in development and production.
This success has restored our reputation with our customer Ford and helped us to win the next generation follow-up order.“
Joe Fadool
President and GM Torque Transfer Systems, Borg Warner Inc. USA
Trust, Clarity
and Transparency
“Unstoppable
Momentum”
Customer and Stakeholder
are satisfied
Quickly grasping the big picture,
complex technical environment and processes.
Building strong and trustful relationships
with all necessary stakeholders combined with an infectious motivational can do attitude that builts team confidence, trust and loyalty.
High octane energy
and performance level focussing patiently on the end goal.
In a crisis less is more. Proven in more than 25 years of project business, the following 5 success factors are. We combine the craftsmanship of a turnaround or change project with adaptive leadership. This is how sustainable success is created – to the satisfaction of all.
A vision (lat. visio for “sight, appearance”) is more than just a picture or an idea of the future. It represents a state which our brain understands as an orientation, as a point of reference and thus as a basis for thinking, deciding and acting.
A vision in a company or even in a crisis provides clarity, calm and determination. The clearer and more complete a vision is, the fewer questions and doubts arise in the course of a crisis. This is the key to a determined leader and a focused team.
If you have provided clarity with a vision, you now need energy to overcome a crisis. In a crisis project, a lot of energy is used to hold on to old routines and to resist change and unpleasant decisions. Imagine this energy becoming free and available for change and the progress of the project.
In an internal combustion engine the existing energy must be ignited by a spark, again and again. If you want to release energy in a person or in a team, a spark is also needed there – an inspiration. These recurring inspirations help you to create an “Unstoppable Momentum”. You will succeed in surviving a deep, long-lasting crisis not only unscathed but also strengthened.
Our brain generates a structure and order through circuits in order to be able to decide quickly for what is necessary and against what is superfluous.
These structures and order must be created in the project and thus direct the energy gained into the right channels.
We concentrate on the most important KPIs in line with the goal, increase efficiency and use existing resources responsibly.
Projects, spread across locations and time zones, have been our daily business not only since Covid-19. In the international environment of automotive engineering this has been part of everyday life for many decades.
Networks compensate the distance and ensure that competencies are bundled. The right choice of communication channel, whether classic or modern. It depends on what is to be achieved, in any case quickly and efficiently.
But communication means much more than just the exchange of information. Communication is leadership. Communication reflects the status of the project. Communication is motivation and fascination.
A crisis reinforces our negative behavior. Negative behavior inevitably leads to continuous failures. We get stuck. Which of your patterns slows you down over and over again?
Ask yourself and you will get the answer in 4 minutes. > Self-check
We adapt to different customer expectations
and develop the best solution for our customers.
In the past following customers have trusted in our competence:
„I simply want to extend a sincere ‚Thank You‘ for the tremendous contribution you made to our project success. You joined the project team at time of great difficulty that also coincided with a significant restructuring within our Organisation.
I very much appreciated your ability to quickly grasp the big picture, our complex technical environment and processes, on the one hand, while simultaneously building strong and trustful relationships with all necessary stakeholders internally at all levels in our company and with the end Customer.
Your experience, credibility, personal maturity and operating style fitted very well to the specific needs we had. Throughout your assignment, despite many challenges and setbacks, you remained patiently focused on the end goal, exhibiting a high octane energy and performance level and an infectious motivational can do attitude that built team confidence, trust and loyalty.
We are all personally and professionally stronger having had the opportunity to work with you.
I do hope we collaborate again.”
Peter Reilly
Product Line Projects Director, Valeo Ireland
„With his structured approach, Thomas recognized and eliminated the real problems of the product and the project environment in a very short time and thus set standards.
His human skills led to the fact that the teams in different locations and countries, which had previously been at odds with each other, once again worked together constructively and with pleasure in development and production.
This success has restored our reputation with our customer Ford and helped us to win the next generation follow-up order.“
Joe Fadool
President and GM Torque Transfer Systems, Borg Warner Inc. USA
Trust, Clarity
and Transparency
“Unstoppable
Momentum”
Customer and Stakeholder
are satisfied
Quickly grasping the big picture,
complex technical environment and processes.
Building strong and trustful relationships
with all necessary stakeholders combined with an infectious motivational can do attitude that builts team confidence, trust and loyalty.
High octane energy
and performance level focussing patiently on the end goal.
In a crisis less is more. Proven in more than 25 years of project business, the following 5 success factors are. We combine the craftsmanship of a turnaround or change project with adaptive leadership. This is how sustainable success is created – to the satisfaction of all.
A vision (lat. visio for “sight, appearance”) is more than just a picture or an idea of the future. It represents a state which our brain understands as an orientation, as a point of reference and thus as a basis for thinking, deciding and acting.
A vision in a company or even in a crisis provides clarity, calm and determination. The clearer and more complete a vision is, the fewer questions and doubts arise in the course of a crisis. This is the key to a determined leader and a focused team.
If you have provided clarity with a vision, you now need energy to overcome a crisis. In a crisis project, a lot of energy is used to hold on to old routines and to resist change and unpleasant decisions. Imagine this energy becoming free and available for change and the progress of the project.
In an internal combustion engine the existing energy must be ignited by a spark, again and again. If you want to release energy in a person or in a team, a spark is also needed there – an inspiration. These recurring inspirations help you to create an “Unstoppable Momentum”. You will succeed in surviving a deep, long-lasting crisis not only unscathed but also strengthened.
Our brain generates a structure and order through circuits in order to be able to decide quickly for what is necessary and against what is superfluous.
These structures and order must be created in the project and thus direct the energy gained into the right channels.
We concentrate on the most important KPIs in line with the goal, increase efficiency and use existing resources responsibly.
Projects, spread across locations and time zones, have been our daily business not only since Covid-19. In the international environment of automotive engineering this has been part of everyday life for many decades.
Networks compensate the distance and ensure that competencies are bundled. The right choice of communication channel, whether classic or modern. It depends on what is to be achieved, in any case quickly and efficiently.
But communication means much more than just the exchange of information. Communication is leadership. Communication reflects the status of the project. Communication is motivation and fascination.