WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY ABOUT US:

"You helped our Western European sales team to develop a winning attitude by developing the “best responses” to the many daily challenges. At the same time, you made all my colleagues experience the importance of emotional intelligence, particularly in sales.Thank you for your professional work!"
Ernst Frimel, Vice President of Sales, Evonik Industries, BU CO, Crosslinkers & Polyesters

"As you know I was first involved in one of your workshops when I was a sponsor of a Degussa Management Dialogue. I found the workshop to be very insightful, relevant and at the same time entertaining. Your enthusiastic approach to change management and getting people to think a bit more detailed about the process was refreshing. I was so impressed with your work then that I invited you to our global Active Oxygens meeting to give a key-note address on living with change. The AO group enjoyed your talk and it was a great way for us to kick off our meeting. I would strongly recommend your services and hope that my group has the opportunity to use your skills again in the future."
Shawn Abrams, Head of the Active Oxygen Business Line, Degussa

Shanghai 2007-05-28

To form a powerful international team of experts from different functions for the Degussa MATCH Project of the BUs Methacrylates und Specialty Acrylics in Shanghai, China, I have chosen Thomas Orths (WinLearnChange Ldt) as an external Performance-Coach and Trainer. He had been highly recommended to me by different colleagues who all had worked with him successfully before. The challenge was to form one strong team and overcome the cultural differences between 20 German/European and 20 Chinese Project team members.

Mr Orths organised 2 Teambuilding Workshops in February and May 2007, each over several days in Shanghai for 40+ Members of the MATCH Team. These Initiatives have been highly successful due to his outstanding performance. His Workshops were very well prepared regarding the definition of outcome, research and analysis of the team situation to start with. As a consequence the design of his input, the exercises and numerous Break-out groups were very well received by all team members. His approach was very creative, motivating and fun, yet focused and practical - relating to the real business challenges we faced. His commitment and engagement over exceeded my expectations, especially because of the follow-up documents he provided and recommendations for the implementation of what we worked out in the sessions. I can really recommend Thomas Orths for this kind of tailored initiatives.
Claas Klasen, Projektleiter MATCH, Degussa China

"It is a very exciting experience working with you for our MATCH Team-building Workshop. Your pro-activeness, professionalism, creativity and dedication during the whole session impressed us a lot and made you one of the best as commented by our MATCH Team Members. As a result, the team-building workshop is value-added to our team excellence approach, and we can live the concepts in our daily business processes."
Mary Tang, Senior HR Manager, Degussa China

"You created in a very short time a positive, energetic and entertaining atmosphere, the participants were all excited about the immediate experienced successes of the exercises.
In addition, you gave us numerous tips helping to transfer the Learning into our daily method of operation. Our expectations regarding team building, team development and change management have been surpassed.
Rainer Gimbel, IT Applications & Services, RAG GmbH

" I had the pleasure to experience you twice as a facilitator working with our leaders and can therefore highly recommend you to other Business Units. This is not only my own experience, but also the very positive feedback of the Management-dialogue participants, which is a great feeling. Personally, I am really looking forward to our future cooperation. "
Daniza Rosson, HR, Stockhausen GmbH

"Working with you and enjoying your professional performance I can say that you were always well prepared, very motivational and engaging with all participants. All subjects were appropriately prepared, delivered with excitement and homour and triggered creative, mobilizing energy."
Walter Wiese, MSI Academy, Platform for Excellence in Marketing, Sales and Innovation

"The contents of the workshop, “high-performance coaching” was highly relevant for me in the following 3 areas:
Development of new management strategies, dealing effectively with conflict, introducing a coaching culture. Excellent work! "
Martin Maxeiner, Sales Manager ARLA Foods

"You really understand how to capture the attention of the participant and you met all agreed targets of the initiative with precision. You are also one of the few who can present a topic like Change Management not academically" Dr. Rolf Goebel, degussa BU EC - EX

"Your success stems from your motivational and entertaining style, and you manage to get all the participants highly engaged with enthusiasm!"
Gregor Hetzke, President, Roehm GmbH.

"You made a major contribution to our successful project kick-off - thank you. A very high level of motivation in the team has been reached. We are all been looking forward to the next opportunity to cooperate with you and share our ideas for process and performance optimizations. Many thanks, TOPAS team!
Barthold Budde, Director Sales Support, degussa High Performance Polymers

" I would like thank you for the professional delivery of the four team-building workshops in my department across all functions: sales, customer service, production, controlling and administration and IT support. You managed to align my staff from the different functions sales, production, customer service, controlling and finance and commit to work much closer together. The feedback from my team was very positive and upbeat."
Juergen Beck, MA-AT-PT, Director, Evonik Industrie