Transfer discussions

Whether it is a 360° leadership feedback or an employee survey, the survey is only the beginning of the subsequent change process.

A survey should be the energy impulse that triggers communication in an organisation, getting the ball rolling. Sounds easy, but that isn’t always the case, as there are often hurdles.

Whatever the hurdles, we will be experienced development facilitators for your feedback recipients. Transfer discussions have proved to be a successful tool for providing support.

Possible hurdles in the refinement process:

• The feedback surprises managers, emotionally affecting them.
• ‘Translating’ results into behavioural changes leads to excessive demands.
• The separation of relevant and irrelevant cannot be clearly accomplished. You can’t see the forest for the trees.
• A neutral counterpart for recognising their own blind spots is lacking.

In-house coaches

We often hear the question, “Can’t we undertake the transfer discussions ourselves?”. The answer is a definite “Yes, but…”.

Of course, transfer discussions can also be handled in-house. However, experience shows that the acceptance of external transfer discussions is higher. If you decide to undertake it in-house, your consultants should have in-depth knowledge of coaching techniques and management development expertise. vieconsult offers special qualification workshops in order to qualify your HR team or managers for transfer discussions.

Written guidelines

In addition to bilateral discussions, we recommend utilising written guidelines for action, directly integrated into the results reports. In these compact accompanying documents, managers are instructed in how to work with the results using coaching questions and exercises, step by step.

The use of such guidelines can be an effective addition to the portfolio of support tools, promoting the fixed planning of subsequent steps.