Starting at ZLU as a career advancement

As a project manager with several years of practical experience, you start a new job as management consultant with high expectations but also a lot of respect. You are highly motivated, and you have acquired a considerable amount of expertise over the years in various previous assignments. Your confidence grows as you take on responsibility for teams of co-workers for the first time and go on various trips to other countries. The frequently mentioned “high workload” still represents the biggest mental barrier to be overcome with the new challenge.

So what has happened to the expectations, hopes and fears after seven years experience in a management consultancy like ZLU?

The expertise previously acquired over many years of practical work in industry provides an excellent starting point for the rapid entry into consultancy. It makes it possible to discuss with clients on an equal footing and to make suggestions and recommendations. But the work as a project leader in a management consultancy such as ZLU calls for more. It is only possible to be successful with CEO projects if you have a sound foundation in management techniques. And this is what you can develop with ZLU. In numerous projects – first as a team member and later as a project leader – you learn the special requirements of the CEOs. You learn their agenda, language, and thought structures, learn to communicate with them effectively, become familiar with the way they process information, and you can choose the right occasions to escalate constructively. You are also in the position to provide the CEO with specialist background information at the appropriate times. An experienced ZLU management consultant lives and breathes this approach.

This makes it possible – sooner or later – to provide a significant added value for the management of every company. And that creates satisfied customers and in addition also satisfied co-workers at ZLU.