Make the Most of Your Design Team
Once you have your designers, how do you work with them to make the most of their talent? Or get your creative personnel to work effectively with administrative staff and management? Or keep your best designers from leaving the company?
Design Talent can help you build your design team and maximize their creative abilities, so that everyone can work happily and successfully.
Our management services focus on retention — but also include developing internal procedures, improving human resource capacity, and optimizing your work environment in a way that nourishes creative talent.
We work with the following partners:
The Reya Group, our assessment partner
Hard skills can be taught, but soft skills are part of a person’s personality and are harder to teach and learn – yet they are critical for whether a candidate will fit into your company’s culture.
To assess these soft skills, we have partnered with The Reya Group to develop a socio-cultural profile specifically for the Creative industry. The Lantern Socio-Cultural Style Profile identifies a candidate’s core values, strengths, and working style. These are central parts of an individual’s identity, and strongly influence worldview, decision-making, and actions.
People prefer to work in environments that align with their personal style – and with people who share their values – so when there is a mismatch, performance suffers, employees are less engaged, and turnover is higher.
The Reya Group is a unique research and consulting firm, which focuses on designing and transforming large organizations.
To learn more, please visit www.reyagroup.com.
Krauthammer, our Design Management partner
Coaching, consulting, and training company Krauthammer assists clients worldwide in successfully uniting human resource development with sustainable business performance. The company offers major change implementation and human capital development programs at the individual, team, and corporate levels to optimize the personal effectiveness of leaders and managers, salespeople and negotiators, trainers, coaches, consultants, and support staff.
Established in 1971, Krauthammer has over 300 consultants and employees, delivering services in over 50 countries and 15 languages. International consistency and the ongoing professional development of our consultants is ensured by four annual Krauthammer University sessions where every consultant spends between 4 and 5 weeks per year.
Krauthammer in China
Krauthammer has been operating in China since 1996 with offices in Beijing and Hong Kong. Over the years, Krauthammer has established long-term partnerships with both international and local organizations. “We have built strong partnerships with many international clients. Our challenge now is to reach out to the local organizations where the emphasis has traditionally been on education, rather than hands-on training, when it comes to employee development,” comments William Lee, Consultant, Head of Krauthammer Office in Beijing. William Lee used to head up an ad agency in Asia before joining Krauthammer. In China, Krauthammer is assisting Schaeffler’s professionals/designers of the R&D center with their development.
To learn more, please visit www.krauthammer.com.cn.
