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Here you can read the opinion of various PEOPLE who have used OW as a collaborator in Strategic Plan development.
There are also verbatim from a few of the more than 20,000 RECOMMENDATION LETTERS that professionals who have experienced an OW Development Cycle have sent to us.
COMMENTS from professionals at some of OW´s client COMPANIES, distributed by market.
PERSONAL OPINIONS
- Juana Penalva, Grupo Sol-Melia
- Francisco Sol, Grupo Philips
- Abel Cádiz, Telemensaje
- Carlos de Jaureguizar, Consejero Delegado de El Aguila
- Carmen Franco, Depto. RRHH de Philips Ibérica
- Michael de José, Subdirector General Seur
- Carlos Jiménez, Director de Calidad y Formación de Caja Castilla La Mancha
- Angel Aledo, Director de Recursos Humanos de NECSO, Grupo Acciona.
LETTERS
«Every hour invested in this cycle will save dozens of hours in unprepared, poorly directed meetings that lack clear and specific objectives, and, without a doubt, the same will be true of the tools that are practiced and whose use we are all much more aware of now»
Miguel García Folch (Public Sector Telefónica Solutions)
“Leadership needs to be worked on and Otto Walter has shown me that they really know the subject well and have the skills needed to help you realize things and think about your behavior so you can evaluate yourself”
Javier Ginés (Telefónica Systems)
“It is not a cycle that ends with a conclusion but a method of implementations for everyday work situations that I recommend be used as a continuous learning process and as a means of preserving one’s leadership”
Leticia González G-Cernuda, Quality Director, PHILIPS
“As a Human Resources professional I am used to seeing, and sometimes suffering, all kinds of development programs. Let me tell you, however, that the OTTO WALTER program is simply different. What makes OW different? What distinguishes it from other similar programs? Basically the fact that it shares proximity with participants in its great leadership principals and personnel management in a simple, practical and surprising way. There is no empty paraphernalia, unnecessary fluff or heavy, unmanageable manuals”
José Luis de la Guardia, Human Resources Director, ONO SPAIN
“The OW Director’s Development cycle reviews all possible situations that can arise in my work, from motivating people to laying them off. It also emphasizes practical aspects regarding how to face a business meeting, how to always keep a positive attitude both with people and with the different situations that come up in normal work activity”
Cesar Canelada, Controller, DIGITAL Equipment Corporation España S.A.
“When your company tells you that they have signed you up for an OW Director’s Development course your first reaction is a skeptical one: it’s just one more thing to do. After that, and as you get more into the sessions, your opinion changes to: “wow, this course isn’t bad at all”. When you reach the end you are completely sure that it was worth it. What will you find in this cycle? Abundant logic and common sense”
Javier Gómez Sánchez, Planning and Control Department Manager, Omnilogic Telecomunicaciones S.A.
“Of all of the courses I have taken, this is clearly the best one and its organization was perfect”
Angel Arenas, IT Solutions, FUJITSU ICL ESPAÑA S.A.
“There are a number of reasons why I want to recommend the Otto Walter Director’s Development cycle to everyone who manages teams:
– It helps optimize the participant’s work time. It makes them more efficient.
– It makes it possible to improve the work environment of a team.
– It increases your influential ability at your company.
– It improves control and follow-up of objectives”
Francisco Porro Bernardo (Sodicam España SA RENAULT)
“It is important to mention that, since this is a completely practical course that has objectives and exercises every day, it is not far from reality at all. It is actually put into practice every day and, therefore, it is an everyday reality that is learned over the five days”
Joan Rosell Buada (Regional Director Pfizer Animal Health)
“It has given us innovative training that, in many cases, will substitute our previous ideas about how to be and behave like true leaders, working as a team. The ideas already existed but were used in a different and random way”
S. Medina (Building Manager Llorente Construction SA)
“It is a useful, concise, immensely positive cycle that develops clear behavioral ideas that bring results in the short-term, optimizing the time and means used in addition to improving inter-personal relationships in the work environment and with clients”
Eduardo Cerezo, NECSO
“The Otto Walter cycle is a perfect, open, enjoyable, tangible and objective method that shows us the exact tools needed for achieving better planning and development of objectives”
Eduardo A. Solla Herrera, NECSO
“The Otto Walter cycle is a perfect, open, enjoyable, tangible and objective method that shows us the exact tools needed for achieving better planning and development of objectives”
Andrés Paz Torres, ZARDOYA OTIS
“ can assure you that this is an eminently practical cycle whose conclusions are seen through a different perspective of team management. Sometimes it is even easy and gratifying!”
Rafael Benavent, General Director at KERABEN S.A.
“We cannot manage a company by using computers only, or by yelling at and aggravating employees. Employees themselves must want to surpass themselves and give the best of themselves. This cannot be forced and is something that OTTO WALTER taught us”
Gabriel Amengual Quetglas (Sol Meliá )
“This is an intense, practical and amusing cycle that incites me to carry out daily analysis and more easily see the successes and shortcomings of my decision making.
I still do not dominate the «puzzle of tools» but I am getting very positive results. My goal: to fit the pieces together and compact them to reach my objectives. Sincerely, I have never done anything like this in my entire professional life and I recommend others from my bank take the cycle as well”.
Manuela Muñoz Cordero (Area Sales and Marketing Director, Jaén Savings)
“I can sincerely affirm that the company that follows this philosophy and work method will verify the benefits short-term. Otto Walter never forgets that companies are made up of people who are, in themselves, a company’s true value”
Enrique Martín Pérez, Insurance Area Manager, SEUR Madrid.
“Specifically this cycle helped me more correctly channel various projects that I had underway before beginning the cycle. I am sure that their success is owned in great measure to the implementation of the tools I have learned”
SEUR Madrid
“The methods share proximity with an executive’s reality as well as with the working world, making these cycles practical and useful in helping to manage more successfully”
Samir T. Nabulsi Conventions and Incentives Director, SOL MELIA
“The OW Cycle has helped me see that our way of treating people, although not bad, clearly has room for improvement. I can affirm that I put some of the suggestions learned into practice before the cycle was over and…they worked!!”
Javier G. Borreguero, ERHARDT SERVICES
“Now, after completing the cycle, I can say that, after many director’s training seminars over my long professional trajectory, I have finally found the keys to having my collaborators not only do a good job but also carry out their tasks willingly and enthusiastically”
Manuel Garrido Cabo, Occupational Training Center General Director
“My participation in the Otto Walter Senior Management cycle was very useful because I learned a series of basic tools with which to optimize my relations with the people I coordinate”
Antonio Campos Iglesias, International Coordinator, CIA Medianetwork
“I sincerely recommend others in my position work with OTTO WALTER for three basic and decisive reasons: One, the Professionalism. Two, the Methodology. And three, for everything you get out of it”
Rafael V. Del Río Sánchez, Promotions Department, IBERMUTUAMUR
“In my case I have already reaped the fruits of my attendance to a Cycle. By following this method I have remodeled my department without causing any internal tension or personal drama, something that is not always easy when referring to jobs”
Amador Sánchez, Systems Department Director, SEUR
“I recommend this experience to anyone who, like me, is fortunate enough to lead a Client Service Department. Through these known behaviors, not always frequently used, I have been able to verify how, almost immediately, the climate of relations has improved and, more importantly, more efficiency has been seen from almost everyone’s motivation and involvement”
Dolores Puntero, Client Service Department Manager, SEUR
“I had not realized that directing people could be so personally satisfying until I attended the OTTO WALTER cycle”
Angel Tapia S.A. EL AGUILA
“Otto Walter shows you how to value people. Those people really do appreciate it!””
David Segura Paños Social Council Manager and Secretary, S.E. LUCERO DE LEVANTE, S.A.
“I want to express my satisfaction with the content and development of this cycle whose innovative focus and imaginative behavior guidelines I consider to be of utmost interest to any company”
Juan López, Director VIAJES KUONI S.A.
“What stands out most for me is the concept of the “tool box”; from the first session participants receive a number of cards about a handful of key skills that everyone knows intuitively but that, in our day-to-day whirlwind, are forgotten or not used in a conscientious way. The content of this program builds on those “tools”.
Mariano Blanco Gema (Winterthur Insurance) D.
“I recommend to work with Otto Walter because the OW cycle is basically practical from the start, with immediate and effective application to the daily work of any director, regardless of the rank. Apart from the new techniques proposed, the cycle teaches how to use the common sense to reach the proposed goals”.
Francisco Díaz Álvarez (Caja San Fernando) D.
“Positive Interior Perspective, propose, specify, normalize, motivate, get involved, listen, create, influence, admonish, etc…these are just some of the tools that we need to get used to using often in order to make our job easier, our team more efficient and our company more profitable”.
Antonio Mejías (Insurance Manager, San Fernando Savings)
“Have you ever felt like your company’s trash can? Have you ever felt that your employees do not speak the same language as you do? Have you ever felt that your team did not understand their goals? If this is true for you, I would like to recommend the course on Director’s Skills given by OTTO WALTER Consulting. In it you will find a simple method that is very effective in helping improve your daily work and also observe how your team significantly improves professionally and in regards to a human factor”.
Rafael Tronch (Helvetia CVM)
“The Otto Walter cycle is notably different in the level of practical use it has, the ease with which it can be implemented and the excellent results that it brings about.””.
Pedro Zoido Vargas, Area Manager, El Monte Savings
“I sincerely recommend the Otto Walter Director’s Development Cycle because it is very similar to company reality. Our reality, behavior and environment are analyzed throughout the course. The observations made can be immediately carried out and verified in practice”
Luis Mendoza Terón, Granada Savings
“I have finally taken a sales development cycle that was also enjoyable, constructive and surprisingly useful”
Vicente Vicedo Bustillo, Urban Agency Auditor, March Banking
“Why do I sincerely recommend this cycle? Because it systemizes everything, is specific and, above all, can be implemented since all of the concepts can be immediately transferred and put into practice in our working day-to-day”
Francisco Sánchez, Banco Santander
“The cycle is surprising in the simplicity of its proposals and contains in it many undeniable truths”
Jorge Segui, KUTXA
“For some time I had heard much praise regarding the Otto Walter Director’s Development Cycle. It was one of the few courses, if not the only one, about which almost everyone spoke very highly of. After actively participating in one I must admit that the opinion of others was fitting with exactly what I experienced”
Joan Fornes Barceló, Human Resources Director, MARCH BANKING
“I sincerely recommend others work with Otto Walter because it is an intense but enjoyable cycle that is also practical and based on: *Very concrete ideas. *Practical and simple formulas that can be applied every day. *Learning in a practical way through simulated difficult situations. *Open group experience sharing. *Strengthening director’s skills. *Giving immediate results”.
Manuel Rueda García, Human Resources, Granada General Savings
“I have learned how to make my job easier and help my collaborators do their job without burdening me”
Branch Director, Banca March S.A.
“The success of the cycle can be measured and verified from day one through its everyday implementation”
Eduardo M.Garcia Espona, Area Manager, LA GENERAL DE GRANADA