Development Center

People frequently use the term "win-win" – and it's a perfect description of our development centers.

Our development centers give your employees the opportunity to reflect on their strengths and areas for development in a framework tailored specifically to their further personal development. Your company benefits from the targeted promotion of its potentials, and the development center serves as the basis for this progress. The goal of our development centers is to align the competences of your employees as closely as possible with your company's requirements.

Development processes can best be revealed when employees are put in a setting that integrates career-specific requirements. They receive differentiated feedback as well as the opportunity to try alternative behaviors in a direct and experience-oriented way. The development center takes advantage of these findings. The participants work through realistic exercises embedded in a standardized framework. In the process, they are evaluated by qualified observers according to a series of defined criteria. They receive continuous feedback on their strengths and areas for development – from a wide variety of perspectives: other participants, observers and themselves, e.g. with the help of video analysis. Repeated exercises allow the participants to immediately put what they have learned into practice.

Combining precise diagnostics with behavior-based training methods creates a constructive environment to facilitate intense learning experiences and make it easier for people to apply them to everyday life. At the end, an individual development plan is prepared for each participant on the basis of the findings from the exercises. We can gladly support you in creating development programs and training measures linked to the development center in order to ensure the long-term success of your employees and your company.

Abbildung: Development CenterAC vs. DC: more than just a different name

 

Read more in our practical examples...

Development Center in an international context

Development Center for small and medium-sized companies

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