Peter Schäfer Mentor
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- German
How I can help
My professional background
My skills are in IT and in general management and leadership. In IT I worked in all of the different sectors; systems development, application development, operations, infrastructure management, business process engineering, and consulting. I had various roles from programmer, project manager, team and department lead, and from consultant to chair of the architecture board. Finally, I served as Technical Transformation Lead for large transformations of our customers and coordinated solutioning and QA in pre-sales. I loved working with technologies, but I also loved working with people. What drives people doing their best? How to become a team? How to develop and communicate goals? How to drive change? How to lead? Now I am retired working on very different projects. But the love for doing business remained.
How to work with me
What I can offer
I am interested in change management, in helping you to develop the business model and business plan or solve a certain problem for your non-profit organization or startup and communicating it. I would be happy helping you with roles development and solving organizational and individual human challenges in your team. Over the years I moved more and more towards Lean and Agile. In IT I can help in various questions of IT for medium size to large organizations.
My expectations for a successful mentoring relationship
Just be open and honest. If you come to the conclusion that you want to try implementing something we discussed I'd like to here back some time later if it was successful.
How entrepreneurs can prepare before we start
I'd like to get on a Zoom or Skype (or WhatsApp) call with you at the earliest. Email ping-pong is not my favorite.