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Develop Your Strengths!

Today I attended the Management Lab for the first time. This program is intended to support employees at my employer Policen Direkt who want to improve their understanding and approach to management. The focus here is on how your own scope for action and cooperation can be designed positively and productively.

Good management is essential for successful companies. But not everyone explains to you exactly what that means and what you have to do or be able to do personally. The Policen Direkt Management Lab offers just that, with concrete exercises, tools and practices that should help motivate teams, increase productivity and develop innovation throughout the company.

Insights into Modern Management Approaches

The training series for interested employees takes place on a voluntary basis every 6 weeks after the end of work. Prerequisites for participation are in particular willingness to work on topics and projects beyond the regular working hours and to complete the program duration of approx. 18 months. Various Policen Direkt executives and external coaches will speak during the mentoring program.

Process and Goals

It is not a coincidence that the Policen Direkt Management Lab contains the word “laboratory”. In this program, management exercises and tools are tested, checked and then evaluated in the individual field of action of the participants. At the same time, the exchange with the other participants and regular self-reflection should support the identification and further training of personal strengths.

Through learning formats such as workshops, coaching, lunch’n learn, exploration days, standup pitches and corporate huddles, the participants should be made aware of the requirements for the work of the future. The time in between is then used to test the learning material in everyday work.

The Launch Event was a Great Success

Around 15 employees of the Policen Direkt Group attended the kick-off workshop on February 12, 2020. HR manager Samira Arrami led the event and gave more than three hours of lectures on how the world of work has changed and will continue to change in the years to come.

The first workshop focused on discovering your own strengths. The Gallup system was used to explain the different personal strengths and everyone can determine them for themselves. Self-assessments were discussed in groups of two, followed by lively discussions about adapting what was learned.

Outlook

Ms. Arrami handed out the book “Entwickle Deine Stärken” (Develop your strengths, by Tom Rath, Redline Verlag) to everyone. Every individual can now dive deeper into determining his/her own strenghts. The book also includes a coupon code that you can use to complete a StrengthsFinder test online to check your own strengths according to the Gallup principle. The results of this will then be discussed within the group in April.

Everyone is responsible for success and satisfaction in the company. Better management means both motivating people to improve the entire organization and increasing customer benefits. For most, however, these principles are not enough. You need concrete practices or in other words: regular training and exchange.

, Policen Direkt