Führungs- & Talententwicklung
Pit Stop "Leading Myself" – Development Format for Self-Leadership
Instruments: reflection format · facilitated peer circles · coaching team
Context
BSH runs a company-wide talent program that supports subject-matter experts and leaders over several years. The program was intended to feel more like a coherent development journey – with a format that deliberately gives participants time to take stock and strengthens their ownership of their own development between the building blocks. In terms of content, it ties in with a leadership model comprising the dimensions “Leading Myself,” “Leading Others,” and “Leading Business.”
Task
PUETTGEN Consulting was to design and deliver a new development format – the “Pit Stop” – together with the client. For the “Leading Myself” dimension, the goal was to make self-awareness, self-reflection, and self-management tangible and to translate them into small, concrete action steps for everyday work.
Approach
The Pit Stop follows a three-part structure: retrospective and taking stock, self-exploration for self-leadership, and a “Leadership Impact Challenge” for practical transfer. The work is experiential and takes place in fixed peer groups deliberately mixed across functions, countries, and genders; preliminary work with feedback and strengths instruments brings each participant into the format with their own data.
Formats
Co-creative conception and prototype, detailed design, and a delivered pilot format; a continuous digital insights canvas; a transfer architecture spanning twelve weeks with self-organized peer circles and a concluding retrospective. In a second step, adapted for a further target group (subject-matter experts without a leadership role).
Role
PUETTGEN Consulting was responsible for the entire arc: co-creative conception and prototyping with the client, detailed design, delivery as a facilitation and coaching team with two senior coaches, as well as evaluation and the concluding retrospective.
Transfer
Over twelve weeks, self-organized peer circles support the implementation of self-selected “Tiny Actions”; a joint retrospective closes the arc and ensures anchoring in everyday work.
Distinctive Feature
A deliberate timeout for guided self-reflection rather than classic training – designed in a modular way so that individual Pit Stops work on their own and can be attended based on availability.