Automotive Retail: Leadership Fundamentals

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Automotive Retail: Leadership Fundamentals

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What should be clarified as main framework for an effectively and sustainably cooperation between management and employees. See an overview in 11 statements.

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The following leadership fundamentals clarify the main framework for the management. They are guideline and code of behavior for the cooperation between executive management, executive staff and employees. Michael Kuloge / Update January 2014

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The leadership system is holistic and intercompany orientated. Holistic means on this view, to look at a company with all business divisions, processes, structures and systems, employees and customers as well as to the connecting culture.

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A clear management structure with precise responsibilities (inside / outside communicated) is implemented. All divisions of the company are represented within the management team.

A consistent rule of communication ensures a standard information exchange between management and employees ( top down and bottom up).

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The analysis of the company situation considers plurality of opinions and different kind of views.

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Decisions are are neither taken rashly nor delayed. Supervisory instruments and control mechanisms ensuring a sustainable implementation of all decisions, orders and changes. Necessary adjustments and corrections will be identified.

Objectives, measures and results will be communicated throughout the company.

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A budget process with ambitious but reachable objectives, commitments of all managers, bonus on achieving objectives and regulars follow-ups through business reviews exists.

A transparent and clearly defined reporting structure displays all major operative and financial key figures.

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A clearly defined general vision and a practical strategy to achieve this vision has been formulated.

A mission statement has been worked out together, been backed from all employees and represents authentic the self-understanding and the fundamentals principles of the company.

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The corporate behavior is orientated to a humanistic system of values.

That means, to respect the dignity and welfare of people. The person, be he customer or employee, will always be at centre.

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The entire management is a role model and will act hereafter as such.

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Michael acquired more than 15 years of CEO experiences in leading premium car dealership groups in Germany. This at privately as well as at Volkswagen AG owned VW, Audi and Skoda dealership groups and also for a US parent company owned BMW / MINI dealership group. Furthermore he managed the main branch store of the second largest BMW / MINI dealership group within East Germany. Additionally he worked as a senior consultant on behalf of the Volkswagen AG and was responsible for a holistic development and management consulting of Volkswagen dealerships. Besides from that Michael lectured a couple of years at the Management Marketing Academy of the Volkswagen AG on leadership, marketing & public relations, human resources, reporting and generation change. He achieved several awards of the Volkswagen AG (organization, employee satisfaction study, public relations) and main premium awards of the AUDI AG (q-power, sales, after-sales, marketing). Furthermore he accomplished successfully a management audit at Volkswagen AG as well as CEO audits at Audi AG and Screen GmbH. He looks at companies as a generalist to the entire organization, including people, structures, processes and systems, culture and human behavior. Due to Michael's international activities he is very open-minded and likes intercultural exchange. He cooperated several years with the Ben Craig Center, a business incubator affiliated with the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, USA and managed their subsidiary in Germany. Furthermore he founded a US investment corporation, was one of the initial investors and board members of a US medical start-up and founded their German subsidiary. Additionally Michael consulted a high-tech company in Helsinki, Finland regarding growth, mergers & acquisition as well as generation change and established business relationships to a MBO in St. Petersburg, Russia.