Krauthammer

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Krauthammer
Type Private
Founded 1971
Headquarters Brussels, Belgium
Key people Ronald Meijers, Thierry Stéphan, Executive Board
Industry Professional services
Services Consultancy-based training and coaching, company surveys, performance management
Employees 290
Website www.krauthammer.com
For other uses, see Charles Krauthammer.

Krauthammer (also known as Krauthammer International) is an international professional services company, whose main expertise is consultancy-based coaching and training. Krauthammer is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and has 25 offices in 16 countries.[1]

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[edit] History

Krauthammer International was founded by Eric Krauthammer in 1971 in Switzerland.[2] In this decade, Krauthammer’s activities were mainly focused on the Swiss market, but towards the end of the decade offices were opened in France and Belgium. In the 1980s Krauthammer expanded into the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Spain. In 1994, Eric Krauthammer sold his shares to Wolters Kluwer, a leading Dutch publishing group active in 30 countries. A proportion of the stock remained the property of Krauthammer senior management.

An employee buyout in 2000 created financial and psychological ownership and the possibility to operate and innovate independently. Wolters Kluwer reached an agreement to sell Krauthammer International, part of Wolters Kluwer Professional Training, to the company's key personnel and NIB Capital Private Equity N.V.[3]

Krauthammer Consulting started its operation in 2002 and has offices in the Netherlands, UK and France. This division delivers sustainable change programmes to major clients such as Shell.

[edit] Services and clientele

Krauthammer offers ready-made, customized and newly-created training programs as well as coaching for a wide range of client needs. Target audiences consist of leaders and managers, salespeople and negotiators, internal trainers and coaches, and support staff. The most typical clients come from the so-called 'SMIFH' sectors, namely services, manufacturing, IT, finances and health.

[edit] Methodology

The uniqueness of the Krauthammer training and coaching approach lies in that, in terms of "logical levels" (Gregory Bateson and Robert Dilts), unlike many other approaches, it deals mostly with concrete behavioural and strategy levels that, within time and sequential follow-ups, will bring evolution of the beliefs and identity levels. In short: "new behaviour skills breed new attitudes"[4], namely that behavioural training impacts cognitive processes through the reduction of cognitive dissonance. This specific methodology finds its origins in a broad version of the Palo Alto school of communication (Mental Research Institute and Paul Watzlawick). It was first synthetised in the sixties by Gustav Käser, then continuously developed by the Krauthammer research and development team. Among the main modern influences of Krauthammer, we find the systems approach and methodologies, and theorists like Fons Trompenaars, Marshall Rosenberg and Peter Senge.

[edit] Research

Krauthammer has originated models, concepts and scales, such as the Human Capital Development (HCD) Model[5], the 4LS Evaluation, the Double Helix model, the Culture Iceberg, the Development Wheel and the Infinite 8 model.[6] Krauthammer original research findings on management and leadership are furthered by Economist Intelligence Unit [7] and other industry related sites[8] [9] [10].

[edit] References

  1. ^ Krauthammer offices worldwide Official Krauthammer website; retrieved 2 February, 2008
  2. ^ Krauthammer RFP FAQ booklet, Krauthammer Central Services. September, 2007
  3. ^ Wolters Kluwer sells Professional Training companies Krauthammer International, IEC, and HQ Group www.wolterskluwer.com; retrieved 28 January, 2008
  4. ^ Krauthammer RFP FAQ booklet, Krauthammer Central Services. September, 2007
  5. ^ The Human Capital Development (HCD) Model Official Krauthammer website; retrieved 30 January, 2008
  6. ^ Krauthammer company profile www.portfolio.com; retrieved 30 January, 2008
  7. ^ Krauthammer research at Economist Intelligence Unit www.viewswire.com; retrieved 27 January, 2008
  8. ^ What do leaders lack? www.findarticles.com; retrieved 31 January, 2008
  9. ^ Only 42% of employees believe their organisations to be trustworthy www.trainingpressreleases.com; retrieved 29 January, 2008
  10. ^ Employees to Managers: Shut Up and Listen www.workforce.com; retrieved 30 January, 2008

[edit] Literature

Watzlawick, P., Bavelas, J. B., Jackson, D. D., Pragmatics of Human Communication. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1967.