In a market environment in which demand for top profiles exceeds the supply of mobile talent willing to change jobs, identifying and acquiring managers / top specialists has become a decisive competitive factor for success.

Due to its federal structure, the German labour market is fundamentally different from those in other countries in Europe. Added to this, since Covid the challenge of acquiring top profiles for your own company has become even greater. Almost every candidate expects a contemporary “New Work” concept from their future employer.

Identifying suitable candidates and moderating the different expectations of clients and candidates is an important aspect of our searches.

In the past few years, searching for qualified advisory board members or non-executive directors has become steadily more important. Nowadays, family-owned companies in particular rely increasingly on advisory board members with specific expertise. Owners and management want advisory board members as sparring partners, who can contribute sound know-how on key issues. Searching for advisory board members with proven expertise in digital transformation or sustainability/CSR is currently a focal point of our search assignments.

Other skills in demand are: IPO experience / M&A expertise / multichannel know-how / global supply chain understanding / brand building / internationalization experience / generational change moderation

We also fill interim CEO and CFO positions from our candidate network. The generational change in family businesses can often be effectively accompanied by the temporary support of an experienced CEO.

The filling of strategic key positions can now be supported in a targeted manner by various supplementary initiatives and tools.

A leadership assessment will help decision makers to better assess the leadership qualities and future potential of a candidate. The increasing heterogeneity of teams requires a modified, modern understanding of management. This is the only way to actually leverage the potential in a team.

Christoph Kleinen and Dr. Hans-Joachim Strüven can look back on many years of expertise in conducting individual assessments and assessments of entire leadership teams. Our team of consultants, mostly certified, is accompanied by experienced experts. For complex, specific issues, such as optimal cooperation between generations, we cooperate with the company WiseForce Advisors, a leading provider in this field (www.wiseforceadvisors.com).

We offer our customers the opportunity to access experienced coaches who have been certified by KLEINEN ADVISORS.

We cooperate exclusively with business coaches we know from many years of collaboration and who we are convinced have an excellent reputation. Finding out which coach will fit which client and for which task is a basic pre-condition for later success.

Examples of accompanied coaching projects include:

Team Effectiveness –
collaboration in the leadership team

A new CEO, or also the period after a merger, can cause the make-up and management culture of a leadership team to completely change. We will support our clients to enable their management team to work optimally together in the shortest amount of time and to achieve the best-possible performance.

Onboarding Coaching –
new company, new culture, new role

Onboarding coaching minimises the risk of not finding your feet or not doing so quickly enough in a new company and within a new corporate culture. It is equally decisive for the company and the manager to actively accompany this process from Day 1 in order to allow the new employee to integrate as well as possible.

StepUp Coaching –
from a colleague to a manager

The first C-level role. How do I conduct myself in this new role now as the manager of my former colleagues? This step is a very special challenge for many internally developed candidates.

Digital Transformation –
a complex, company-wide project

Companies cannot transform themselves into digital players overnight or just by establishing a CDO.

Transforming an organisation is a complex process. It mostly begins with the leadership team and then has to be consistently accompanied across all levels of the company. The CHRO and their team play the decisive role here.

We will be pleased to support you here and will place senior HR leaders with transformation experience from our network. They will be able to accompany this process, including on an interim or project basis. Conceiving a project and consistently accompanying the implementation phase can make an essential contribution to a successful and sustainable digital transformation.

We offer our customers the opportunity to access experienced coaches who have been certified by KLEINEN ADVISORS.

We cooperate exclusively with business coaches we know from many years of collaboration and who we are convinced have an excellent reputation. Finding out which coach will fit which client and for which task is a basic pre-condition for later success.

Examples of accompanied coaching projects include:

Team Effectiveness –
collaboration in the leadership team

A new CEO, or also the period after a merger, can cause the make-up and management culture of a leadership team to completely change. We will support our clients to enable their management team to work optimally together in the shortest amount of time and to achieve the best-possible performance.

Onboarding Coaching –
new company, new culture, new role

Onboarding coaching minimises the risk of not finding your feet or not doing so quickly enough in a new company and within a new corporate culture. It is equally decisive for the company and the manager to actively accompany this process from Day 1 in order to allow the new employee to integrate as well as possible.

StepUp Coaching –
from a colleague to a manager

The first C-level role. How do I conduct myself in this new role now as the manager of my former colleagues? This step is a very special challenge for many internally developed candidates.

Digital Transformation –
a complex, company-wide project

Companies cannot transform themselves into digital players overnight or just by establishing a CDO.

Transforming an organisation is a complex process. It mostly begins with the leadership team and then has to be consistently accompanied across all levels of the company. The CHRO and their team play the decisive role here.

We will be pleased to support you here and will place senior HR leaders with transformation experience from our network. They will be able to accompany this process, including on an interim or project basis. Conceiving a project and consistently accompanying the implementation phase can make an essential contribution to a successful and sustainable digital transformation.