You know that things should
change in your company!
You don’t know where to start. You have worked on becoming more competitive. You would like to grow sustainably. Around you are great people whom you would like to inspire about the future. You develop new ideas and would like to find somebody with whom you could make things happen.
Let´s talk!
I will accompany you in developing your organisation and your employees; pragmatically and very concretely.
I will support you as an external consultant, lead and facilitate your change projects and give technical advice in workshops or presentations. I will be your discussion partner or your coach and work as a manager on an interim basis as well.
I advise, accompany and support you in two fields
Change management
- Organisational development and implementation of new working methods such as Agile Teams, Remote Work, Virtual Teams, further digitalisierung of your processes
- Strategic development
- Transformation of your company
- Development of your company’s key competencies and your values, "company culture development"
- Facilitation of your team off-sites
- Training of interpersonal skills and change
- Individual potential analysis and career planning
- Coaching of your leaders and key players
- Participation of the works council in change processes
Human Resources management
- Strategic development of the Human Resources function
- Implementation of the HR Business Partner concept
- Implementation of Performance Management systems
- Implementation of Talent Management and Succession Planning
- Conduction of Management Audits and Potential Diagnostics, Personnel Balance
- Conceptualisation and implementation of leadership development programmes
- Implementation of mentoring and coaching programmes
- Further digitalisation of the HR function
- Conceptualisation and implementation of health management systems
- Analysis of psychological stress factors at work
What is the result of my consultation?
Depending on the mandate, I achieve one or more of the following results with my work
- Clear focus on goals
- Better processes and less problems with friction
- Responsibilities where they should be
- Better collaboration within the teams and between teams
- Better usage of new digital tools
- Faster and more direct reaction to new challenges, higher agility when it comes to dealing with unexpected incidents
- Motivated employees who develop their talents and use them
- An inspired leadership team
- Leaders who reflect, know themselves and their strengths and development areas
- More fun at the job
Dr. Andrea Beddies
- Psychologist with specialisation in work and organisational psychology, dissertation on the subject of effective counselling, trained coach.
- Expert for change management and new ways of working, potential diagnostics and personnel development.
- More than 25 years of professional experience in Human Resources as external trainer and consultant, internal Human Resources personnel developer, HR business partner and in leadership roles as Vice President HR.
- I’ve worked for different companies from a family owned firm up to big enterprises in different industrial sectors.
- More than 15 years experience in leading international teams in different regions and in managing international projects, more than two years in a management function in Asia.
- Setting goals and achieving them, being consistent and not giving up, listening and taking people on board, showing a good sense of humour, not forgetting to laugh, moving forward together even if there are difficulties – that is important for me as a person.
A winning team
Which principles of counselling
and advice guide me?
Understanding and comprehension
To approach the issues with eyes wide open, understand the reasons why and the general conditions of a situation and getting the people on board.
Learning orientation
To advise and counsel in a way that facilitates my departure at the end of the counselling process, with you having learned many of my competencies. Then you don’t need me anymore!
Partnership
We work together on an eye-to-eye-level. You have your competencies and know-how and I add mine in order to be successful together.
Participation
For me the participation of the affected employees is a key success factor in a change process.
Transparency
The consultancy process starts with a clear mandate and ends with a review of what we have achieved. In the course of the consultancy process we halt here and then to reflect if we are still on the right path.
Orientation towards goals and results
To put together an agenda and a clear plan, make it happen and achieve results. I would like to accomplish something which really helps you.
Passion
I love my profession, for me it is a mission. I work on my projects with my full energy. And sometimes the courage to dream creates the power to fight for them. Have the heart to do it …
Sponsor personal growth
Life is like a river or a journey, we can shape a lot of it ourselves and take matters into our own hands. What is your passion and your journey? I will support you in your reflective process.
What are your principles?
Let´s talk!
Testimonials
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteI have known Andrea Beddies for a long time now and have cooperated with her very successfully on different subjects. While developing an efficient organisation in Russia, a region with extreme dynamics, above-average growth and significant conflict areas, she was an important HR business partner, valued listener and prudent advisor, who had a significant part in putting together robust and future-oriented solutions. Her open and considerate way of working was always accompanied by the ability of a spot-on analysis, fast understanding of the key problems, the processes and the conflict potential, all this based on expertise and intuition.
Stephan Schulte, Managing Director Emerging Markets
I always found the fluent transition between consultancy and coaching in the course of processes very pleasant. It was well-founded in method and clearly structured. Consequently, the collaboration with her contributed substantially to the success of the project, and opened up possibilities for me personally to develop further. I sincerely recommend working together with Andrea Beddies. The collaboration will definitely be effective and additionally joyful and fun.
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteFit for purpose coaching, pinpoint recruiting and organisation efficiency analyses helped me extremely to achieve the company goals sustainably.
Stephan Sielaff, Board Member for Production
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteAndrea initiated a completely new phase of intensive pursuit of personnel development in the company. She inspired me to continuous occupation with personnel development, my own as well as the development of many employees. I hope that she’ll get the opportunity to initiate such change processes for other people as well.
Dr. Jens Uhlemann, Head of Environmental Science Global Regulatory Affairs
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteConsequently, she is able to always stay in the driver seat and efficiently lead the process even in difficult situations:
Holger Winkel, Managing Director
• Andrea Beddies acts very analytically, emotionally intelligent and doesn’t get on the wrong track.
• One of Andrea Beddies’s biggest strengths is empathy. She succeeds in finding access to people and opening them up.
• One special ability of Andrea Beddies is bringing complex issues to the point and as such always assuring the right focus.
In my role as VP S&C EMEA in Paris I had complex organisational challenges: my leadership team consisted of the functional leaders of the Global Customer Business Team Leaders who worked across the globe. We had to implement clear responsibilities and processes, including the individual development of each team member, cope with exits and recruitments of new team members on short-term notice and under extreme business pressure.
Andrea was a 24-7-HR Business Partner, a coach and instrumental for the successful implementation of the changes which finally leads to outstanding business results. I especially appreciate Andrea Beddies’ business understanding, her international experience and “social intelligence” in dealing with different cultures and behavioral patterns.
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteAndrea Beddies is a seasoned HR professional. Andrea Beddies has a pragmatic approach to projects. When working with her, she has always been keen to deliver efficient and simple solutions. On top of that, Andrea Beddies is open and approachable and knows how to create relationships of trust.
Cloe Croixmarie, Organizational Development Director
show more Show whole quote collapse Collapse quoteI learned to value and appreciate Andrea Beddies as a very good observer and feedback partner during several training programmes; In our conversations she gave me valuable suggestions and concrete help for my daily practice.
Michael K., Director Research & Development