About Me

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Overarching Approach

My work is organized across three levels of expanding reach — Self-Leadership → Leading Others → Team/Organizational Leadership — built on a core premise:

“Whether it’s processes, values, or organization — in the end, it always comes down to people.”

The methodological throughline is “Inspire – Design – Transform”: first clarify values and motivation, then shape collaboration, then achieve change through integration rather than pressure.

Two scientifically grounded diagnostic instruments run through all three levels:

  • TMS (Team Management Systems) – preference and role profiles for individuals and teams, originally developed at Hewlett Packard, available in 12 languages.
  • VMI (Hall/Tonna Values Management Inventory) – values profiles for individuals, teams, and entire organizations; measures value priorities and their stages of development.

Formats used throughout: individual coaching (online/in-person), topic-specific group coaching (max. 6 participants, weekly online sessions), training/workshops, keynote talks, and multi-month to multi-year Leadership Excellence programs.

1. Self-Leadership

Three progressive stages:

  • Time management – the foundation: daily planning, setting priorities, efficiency vs. effectiveness.
  • Self-management – an extension: finding goals, managing role demands and life balance.
  • Self-leadership – recognizing your “own internal operating system,” using value priorities (VMI values profile), knowing your strengths and weaknesses.

Additional offerings at this level:

  • Individual coaching for managers (initial contact via introductory call)
  • Group coaching on self-management/self-leadership
  • Leadership Excellence Program, Module 2 (Self-Leadership) and Module 5 (Values)
  • TMS preference profile and VMI individual profile (starter package incl. consultation)

2. Leading Others

Central themes: hybrid leadership (distance/proximity), goal alignment instead of goal assignment, inspiration/motivation, agility, performance through proper delegation, employee retention, sustainability (reflection/learning), resilience. Guiding model: MbO (Management by Objectives) combined with Management by Exception and a situational/collaborative leadership style.

Specific offerings:

  • “Developing and agreeing on goals” – a 3-module program
  • Performance conversations / “perspective conversations” (instead of classic annual reviews)
  • Delegating properly and developing employees (maturity model)
  • Understanding and strengthening motivation
  • Leadership Practice “Pit Stop” (2×1-day compact format)
  • 270+90-degree feedback for team leaders (TMS Linking Skills model)
  • TMS and VMI team profiles
  • Group coaching on “Leading Others”
  • Individual manager coaching
  • Leadership Excellence Program, Module 3 (Leading Others)
  • “Leading with Resilience” (in cooperation with an external resilience program)

3. Team/Organizational Leadership

Themes: leading teams (understanding and steering group dynamics), minimizing misunderstandings through a shared understanding of leadership, agility, values as an anchor of stability.

Specific offerings:

  • Leading teams (training incl. personal TMS profile)
  • Team Performance Plus – external support for forming new teams, troubleshooting, or re-teaming
  • Keynote talks/short workshops on topics such as “Good to Great,” error culture, values, transformational leadership
  • Team development with TMS (team forming, fast-teaming)
  • 270+90-degree feedback for team leaders
  • Group coaching on team leadership
  • Organizational development/transformation: consistent leadership understanding during post-merger integration, business transformation model
  • Industry 4.0 / digitalization: guiding employee and leadership attitudes ahead of introducing technical change — “This is our specialty: involving people in the change process before the technology arrives.”
  • Values-based leadership/transformation: values analysis at the organizational level (incl. document analysis), based on two proprietary studies (“Missing Link,” “Connecting the Links”)
  • Leadership coaching for executives/C-suite
  • Leadership Excellence Program, Modules 1 and 4 (Leadership Challenge, Leading Change)

A complete inventory of all major projects (competency profile) is available on request.

You will find a complete overview of my previous trainings, seminars and team development work on my former website: coaching-team-training.e-schoelzel.de ↗

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