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Organisational and Personnel Development
The Machwürth Team International (MTI) in
China
The Machwürth Team International China held two customer Company Limited; China
events in September 2009
22nd September 2009 – Inter-
national Business Breakfast
A German typical breakfast and
a lecture with the topic “Aligning
Strategy and People Develop-
ment” on the 22nd September
MTI China inspired an interna-
tional audience.
To attract and build up a con-
tinuous business relationship
with its customers located in
Beijing and the surrounding area
MTI China regularly holds sec-
ond month an “International
Business Breakfast (IBB)”. Dur-
ing the IBB next to a German
breakfast MTI offers the partici-
pants and an interesting lecture
about a current topic delivered
by an HR expert. After the lec-
ture the participants have time
to discuss the lecture topic and
to build up business contacts
with other participants or MTI
experts.
The lecture “Aligning Strategy
and People Development” held
on September IBB was pre-
sented by Ms. Katrin Braun
(General Manager MTI China).
Ms. Braun emphasized in her
lecture that achieving a competi-
tive edge is in the focus of many
companies especially in times of
financial crisis. This is being
addressed by many strategic
initiatives currently being imple-
mented.
MACHWÜRTH TEAM INTERNATIONAL • Dohrmanns Horst 19 • D-27374 Visselhövede
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Kathrin Wolfsgruber
Business Development
Consultant
MTI Management
Consulting (Beijing)
MACHWÜRTH TEAM
INTERNATIONAL
But successfully implementing pany’s structure and the com-
strategic initiatives not only de- pany’s culture.
pends on defining winning strat-
egies, it’s important to imple- After the presentation the par-
ment them effectively. For suc- ticipants discussed the topic and
cessful implementation the right had time to do some networking
professional skill base in the before they had to leave to start
organization is key. Many stra- their normal working day.
tegic initiatives fail because the
available skills are not aligned to
the company needs. Especially
in China, where the workforce is
young on average, this can rep- 23rd September 2009 – MTI
shows up at the German
resent a major obstacle for
business success. To solve this Stammtisch
problem MTI uses an integral
One day after IBB MTI held
training concept where em-
ployee skills of different posi- another customer event.
tions are aligned with the com-
pany’s strategy and values. Every month the club “German
After analyzing the training expats in Beijing” organize a so
needs and designing training called German Stammtisch in a
programs, training measures German restaurant in Beijing.
were aligned with the senior
management. In order to em- This event enables companies
power managers to support their to introduce the business to a
staff in the learning process and big group of Germans.
the process to transfer the
learned they received specific
On the German Stammtisch of
leading training. The result of
23rd Septembers MTI China got
the training measures are con-
the chance to introduce itself to
trolled by previously defined
a group of about 80 Germans
KPIs (Key Performance Indica-
(and also some Chinese guests)
tor) and observed by a steering
working in Beijing.
team. This shows how to deal
with approaching strategic initia-
tives from the end of identifying Since a normal Power Point
and developing the necessary Presentation isn’t really be suit-
skills and how to set up KPI’s to able for the setting of the event,
monitor the success rate. Con- Ms. Katrin Braun (Managing
tinuously aligning the company’s Director MTI China) introduced
strategy and with the training MTI and some of MTIs business
measures of the staff is the re- fields in a playful way:
quirement for implementing the
company’s strategy in the com-
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The participants were asked to The feedback from the partici-

build up a pyramid with four logs pants regarding both customer
of wood within five minutes. The events was very positive. MTI
winner had to explain if he used China wants to thank all of the
any special strategy to solve the participants for their interest and
problem of constructing the participation on our events. We
pyramid or if he just acted on are looking forward to see you
intuitions or even by chance. All on the next German Stammtisch
attendees discussed the advan- in October and of course on our
tages of first analyzing a prob- next International Business
lem before trying to solve it. Ms. Breakfast on the 24th of No-
Braun transferred the problem vember with the topic Accel-
solving strategy from the pyra- erated Leadership in China.
mid to problems occurring in We gladly invite you to take part
daily work and suggested the on it.
same procedure like primary
analyzing a problem, afterwards We look forward to see you
to solve those daily work prob- soon
lems.
MTI Team China
In MTI training measures and
workshops we also introduce
problem solving strategies. After MTI
the participants are confronted
with problems in their everyday
working environment they get
trainer input about new problem
solving methods. Then they
have the opportunity to work
with real business problems to
practice the problem solving
strategies. The participants then
relate the learned to real situa-
tions and make an action plan
how to transfer the learned to
everyday life.

After visualizing the MTI working

style and introducing other work-
ing fields of MTI in China all
guests and the MTI staff en-
joyed a nice evening with free
beer sponsored by MTI and
delicious German food. There
was enough time to discuss how
to build up the pyramid and also
time to build up some business
or non-business related con-
tacts.

MACHWÜRTH TEAM INTERNATIONAL • Dohrmanns Horst 19 • D-27374 Visselhövede

Phone: +49 (0) 42 62 / 93 12 - 0 • Fax: +49 (0) 42 62 / 38 12
Email: info@mwteam.com • Internet: www.mticonsultancy.com