Measure quality of management & avoid miscasts

We support our clients in their personnel decisions: Assessments and management audits for selection and development in senior and top management.

Are you filling a management position?

We help to avoid wrong decisions when filling positions. A wrong personnel decision costs the company 10 to 15 times the annual salary. Professional management diagnostics can prevent wrong decisions.

Strengths and deficits in the management team are identified by us – within the framework of a management audit or management appraisal, you receive a condensed overview of the potentials in management – for the successful mastering of future challenges.

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International management audits for 35 years
Over 25,000 assessments
8,000 individual assessments with top managers

What is the process of a management diagnostic?

Preparation

  • Clarification of requirements (strategy briefing with company management)
  • Definition of the requirements critical to success
  • Clarification of the follow-up process (personnel decisions, personnel development)
  • Informing the candidate about the procedure and contents of the assessment or management audit.
  • Compilation of diagnostic tools (tests, exercises)

Implementation of the assessment or audit

Usually with two consultants and often with observers from the company, duration 5 to 9 hours, remote or on-site (in our office in Hamburg or at the customer’s site)

Feedback and reporting

  • Immediate oral feedback to the candidates
  • Feedback to the managers/decision makers
  • Written report
  • Follow-up interview with candidate (if necessary with supervisor)

Your specialist for aptitude diagnostics in management

Our consultancy focuses exclusively on management diagnostics and can draw on benchmark data from over 25,000 executive assessments conducted.

Making the right management staffing decisions. Recognize competencies and potentials of managers. Avoid bad investments due to miscasting.

High quality online assessments

md has been conducting remote assessments for years, as many of our candidates / observers are abroad. Our extensive experience enables us to guarantee the same diagnostic quality for remote assessments as for assessments in presence.

Customer testimonials

We carried out a management audit with md management-diagnostik and not only gained a valuable overview of the strengths and potential of our management, but also an external view of our organization. Since then, we have carried out an assessment with md before every promotion or appointment to senior management.

Oliver Young

CEO Festo SE

We regularly carry out top management assessments with md management-diagnostik – both with regard to external recruitment and for the development planning of managers who are already working successfully in the company. We appreciate the high level of professionalism of the consultants, the trusting relationship with our managers and, of course, the respectful treatment of the external candidates we want to recruit for B. Braun would like to attract. Personally, I am always impressed by the potential for people’s development that comes to light through joint reflection.

Dr. Stefan Ruppert

Member of the Management Board for Human Resources and Legal Affairs
Labor Director B. Braun SE

I have known md for 30 years and have conducted many
assessments with md consultants, especially in an international context. I appreciate the
high level of professionalism of the consultants in dealing with senior management
and especially their intercultural competence.

Dieter Newhouse

former Board of Management VW Mexico, VW Russia

Management diagnostics can help to identify the competencies and potential of managers by conducting a systematic and objective assessment of managerial skills and attributes.

Frequently asked questions

Management diagnostics is the area of organizational psychology that deals with the assessment of managers with regard to their suitability and fit for management and leadership tasks. It is used both for selection (staffing) and for identifying potential and talent.

Use of scientifically sound methods.
Appreciative, partnership-based interaction with candidates.
Consultants with psychologically sound training.
Consultants with in-depth understanding and experience of the culture of a company, its business models and the world of executives and managers.
Understanding of the connection between strategy, business models, leadership and management of companies.

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Your contact

Olaf Ringelband

Managing director md

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