Metaplan

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Metaplan
legal form GmbH
founding 1959; since 1972 "Metaplan"
Seat Quickborn near Hamburg
Number of employees approx. 60
Branch Business consulting
Website www.metaplan.com

Metaplan is an international management consultancy with headquarters in Quickborn near Hamburg .

The enterprise

The company was founded in 1959 . 1972 is specialized Wolfgang Schnelle and Eberhard Schnelle at decision-making training and presentation management. Since then, the company has been trading under the name Metaplan.

Today the management consultancy has branches in Quickborn , Zurich , Versailles , Princeton , Shanghai and Singapore . Your academy division also offers further training.

Methods developed by Metaplan

Moderation method

The company gained notoriety in particular through the Metaplan method it developed . With the Metaplan method, discussions are visualized and structured on moderation walls. Today this form of conducting discussions and workshops is used in various areas. In addition to its use in commercial enterprises, the method is particularly widespread in the education sector and cultural management as well as in research.

Workshop circles

A workshop circle is a quality circle tailored to the specific needs of German business culture. In comparison to this, the participants of a workshop group are selected depending on the relation to the previously defined topic and it has a specified task and processing time. It is a very project-oriented, all activating and pragmatic instrument (project group) of employee participation.

Lateral leadership

The lateral guide describes the situation of leadership without direct authority. The influence on the formation of will and actions within an organization takes place without a direct hierarchical relationship. Due to the wide variety of organizational forms in social communities (as companies also represent), managers are confronted with a wide variety of leadership situations, including that of lateral leadership.

Other methods

Further methods of organizational development that have been developed or further developed by the company include: B. the concept of the office landscape and discursive advice .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Joachim Freimuth, Thomas Barth: Handbook Moderation: Concepts, Applications and Developments. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3840923753 , p. 44.
  2. Waldemar Pelz: Leading competently: Communicating effectively, motivating employees. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3409125567 , p. 188.
  3. Katrin Feld: Moderation from an educational theory perspective. Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 978-3865373304 , p. 6.
  4. Hans-Joerg Bull Dinger: Ergonomics: product and workplace design. Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3519063667 , p. 290.
  5. ^ Metaplan method. Projekt Magazin - the specialist portal for project management, January 17, 2003, accessed on October 6, 2016 .
  6. Heinrich Lippert: Approaches to the development and introduction of decentralized forms of organization and work , in: Rainer Koch, Peter Conrad (ed.): Changed thinking - better public services?!: Approaches and instruments of a decentralized personnel management. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3322816894 , p. 211.
  7. Waldemar Stange: Quality criteria and indicators for educational partnerships - a practical tool, in Waldemar Stange, Rolf Krüger u. a .: Education and training partnerships. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3531166117 .
  8. Armin Klein: project management for cultural managers. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3322956804 , pp. 47-48.
  9. JF Chenot, M. Scherer a. a .: Acceptance and perceived barriers of implementing a guideline for managing low back in general practice. in: Implementation Science. Volume 3, Number 7, February 2008, doi : 10.1186 / 1748-5908-3-7 .