Human Resources

Are you sometimes looking for a magic trick to bring flow into stagnant conversations?

Looking at the pictures on the Gefühlsmonster Cards can make a conversation easier and more nuanced.

No more searching for the right words. The Gefühlsmonster® Cards can help you talk about feelings more quickly and in a more nuanced way. In companies, the Gefühlsmonster® Cards are often used for team development, internal coaching, mediation and employee appraisals. They facilitate communication between the different hierarchies. Disagreements can be resolved quickly and directly.

Feedback: Human resources department

The head of the HR department of a company operating throughout Germany, together with a colleague, attended one of our Gefühlsmonster seminars in November 2018 and since then has gradually brought the emotional monsters into the company. Here are central points from an interview we had with him.

His core statement in the interview:

With an open attitude and a desire for new things, the Gefühlsmonsters can makeyour work flourish.

In the interview he said:

The Gefühlsmonsters have…   

  • improved communication within the company
  • empowerd some employees to resolve tensions themselves in a timely manner
  • provided other employees who are participating in internal mediation training with a valuable tool to facilitate their clarification work
  • provided internal trainers with a tool that enables them to assess the relevance of emerging issues in a timely manner
  • made superiors curious to use the Gefühlsmonsters for their work as well.

In these areas the Gefühlsmonsters are now used in this company:

  • Team events (entry and feedback rounds)
  • Internal mediation training
  • Mediation between employees
  • Training the mediants to independently continue using the Gefühlsmonster Cards for quick clarification (mediants receive a Gefühlsmonster Set for regular use in cooperation, feedback is that they get to the point very quickly with the cards, they are excited about this possibility!)
  • Team Development
  • Trainer Days (within a three-day cycle there is a 3-hour introduction for the trainers into the use of the Gefühlsmonsters for counselling sessions and team events – the topic will be taken up again in the next event. Their experience: with trainer competence the methods can be implemented immediately. Feedback from the trainers: Gefühlsmonsters are helpful when participants come to them with problems. They make it easier to quickly assess which of these topics should have room in the event and which should not).
  • Qualification of experts without training experience for moderating internal training courses. After an introduction to suitable methods from the Gefühlsmonster repertoire, this introduction is built upon in each of the subsequent events. The experts are closely monitored during their first own events and thus feel relatively secure in their new role.
  • Team rounds for the introduction of changes in the company strategy


In the opinion of our interlocutor, what conditions should be present in order to use the Gefühlsmonster method profitably?

  1. First make own experiences with the use of the cards.
  2. Openness for new things.
  3. Have the courage to do things differently.
  4. Have the ability to decide in different situations whether the use of the cards is appropriate in this particular case.

In the end he said:
“This day at the Gefühlsmonster Headquarters was worth it! Supervisors and other employees who get to know the cards want to use them themselves. My colleague, who leads the internal mediation training, is flourishing in her role with the help of this new tool.

The Gefühlsmonsters are incredibly valuable for the transformation process in which our company, like many other companies, finds itself.”

We thank you for the interview and for allowing us to publish the experiences here!

 

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