Complementary advice

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Complementary consulting is the targeted combination of two different work approaches in management consulting: The (classic) professionally oriented management consulting with a focus on strategy , organization , technology, sales , IT (in short: hard factors) is combined with the psychologically oriented personnel and management development with focus on experience , behavior , attitude , motivation , leadership (in short: soft factors).

The added value of this integrative, holistic approach should, for example, lie in the lower-friction process of change projects: The HR -oriented consultants therefore assume a mediating role, through which the need for change identified by the strategic consultants is conveyed in an acceptable manner to the people employed in the company. Supporting the practical implementation of changes is also part of the complementary approach.

Even if newer book publications proclaim this for themselves, the principle and the term of complementary consulting are not new: In the 1980s Germany had the first experience with the combination of classic (strategic) management consulting and management development.

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  1. ↑ U. Böning, F. Fritschle: Change management on the test stand: an interim balance sheet from corporate practice. Haufe, Freiburg i.Br. 1997, p. 241ff.
  2. ↑ U. Böning, F. Fritschle: Change management on the test stand: an interim balance sheet from corporate practice. Haufe, Freiburg i.Br. 1997, p. 253.
  3. ↑ cf. R. Königswieser, E. Sonuc, J. Gebhardt (Eds.): Complementary advice . The interaction of technical and process know-how. Velcro-Cotta, 2006.
  4. ↑ cf. U. Böning, F. Fritschle: Change management on the test bench: an interim balance sheet from corporate practice. Haufe, Freiburg i.Br. 1997, pp. 239-266.

literature

  • U. Böning, F. Fritschle: Change management on the test bench: an interim balance sheet from corporate practice. Haufe, Freiburg i.Br. 1997.
  • R. Königswieser, E. Sonuc, J. Gebhardt (Eds.): Complementary advice . The interaction of technical and process know-how. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2006.
  • U. Böning: Perspectives: Complementary Consulting - Quantum Leap or Transitional Phenomenon? In: organizational development. 02/2009, pp. 94-95.

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