Current economic developments are increasingly unpredictable and these are uncertain times for the mid market. That is why resilience as a strategic guiding principle is becoming an important factor for companies, one that will decide their future.
What characterises resilient companies? Resilient companies are commercially robust, hard wearing and have the capacity for continuous change. Resilience appears at different levels within a business: at the macro level it is about resilient processes and organisational structures, in other words organisational resilience. At the micro level it is about the individual, the resilience of every single employee. The levels interact with one another within the company and stand in reciprocal relationships across the company network. If a business wants to strengthen its resilience, it is important that both the organisation and its people are strengthened in theirs.
Resilience: what does that actually mean?
The term resilience comes from physics. In materials science it describes the ability of a substance to return to its original form after being deformed. Applied to a company, a resilient business is able to return to its settled state after a disruption, a crisis or a shock. And not only that: resilient companies can turn the crisis to their advantage and emerge from it stronger. Resilient companies are able to react quickly to change and, where necessary, to carry out the transformations that decide success within a crisis. The word resilience therefore contains not only the aspects of standing firm and holding out, but also the ability to adapt and to innovate. In resilient companies, stability and flexibility are in a balanced, individually adapted equilibrium. But how does a company become resilient? In order to offer our clients a holistic resilience concept and to secure resilience at both levels in mid sized companies, that is at the level of the organisation and at the level of the employees, we have agreed a cooperation with stg, the employee consultants. As a consultancy, THE MAK'ED TEAM accompanies companies on their path to strong organisational resilience, and stg supports employees in building their individual resilience.
A strong cooperation: THE MAK'ED TEAM and stg
In this complementary collaboration at organisational and individual level, mid sized companies receive a strong overall package: with an interdisciplinary team, THE MAK'ED TEAM has a great deal of experience in building resilient organisations. Resilience plays a role in every area of a business: digitality and agility matter just as much as a good supply of resources, a positive corporate culture, transparent structures of order or stable supply chain management. This cross section makes one thing clear: resilient companies are not only better protected against crises, they are also fundamentally more future ready, more efficient and more competitive. As a consulting company that advises holistically, we know how mid sized companies can set themselves up resiliently in the relevant areas. THE MAK'ED TEAM is rooted in the mid market and works in a structured, process oriented way. Our way of working is well balanced between strategy development and concrete action. Companies that want to become more resilient with us at their side are not resilient only on paper: resilience is anchored throughout the company and lived in everyday practice. How far our resilience concept reaches differs from company to company and depends on the individual business goals.
Because a company can only be resilient with a strong team, resilient employees are indispensable. This is where our partner stg comes in: the external employee consultancy strengthens people with a resilience model. Resilient employees have the ability to adapt to new conditions, to grow through challenges and to emerge from a crisis stronger. To develop and strengthen individual resilience, the appropriate mindset is built, mental health is supported and meta skills are strengthened.
Together the teams of THE MAK'ED TEAM and stg develop resilience concepts for mid sized companies that mesh optimally at organisational and individual level, in order to secure resilience at both levels within the business.
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Our cooperation partner stg: external employee consultancy (Employee Assistance Program, EAP)
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