Willems Vision and Action provides interim management and business coaching services to help companies improve performance and profits. Their services include general management, commercial management, financial advice, marketing, and human resources support on an interim or temporary basis. They also offer business coaching for executive teams, management teams, and departments to develop business plans and strategies. Their goal is to help clients achieve better results and higher profits through competitive and efficient performance.
2. What can we do together?
Either through coaching or temporary replacement Willems Visie en Actie can join forces with you:
INTERIM MANAGEMENT work fields:
- General management
- Commercial management
- Financial advice
- Marketing
- Business/planning logistics
- HRM
- Public Relations/Communications
Our goal is better results with higher profits for your company. Whether you are a company or a non-profit organisation, our
target will always be performance improvement because competitive and appropriate performance leads to higher profits
BUSINESS COACHING to:
- Executive team
- Management team
- A department or business unit
Through a more creative and innovative process we can come up with a business plan or business project to get things
changed or simply keep them going, but always moving business further
3. What can we do together? (2)
We have several service options that can act either separately or together:
- Coaching: (Business coaching, sparring partner) or temporary replacement (interim management). Your particular
situation determines which choice is the most appropriate to address your case more adequately
- Individual coaching. Either one person, a team, the whole company
We will assess the need for individual or group coaching, depending on the urgency of the business matter
- COMMUNICATION is the most important asset in any company and we pride on having the best communication with you.
Once we agree on a particular assignment, we will communicate sufficiently and efficiently in order to reach the desried
goals. Communication will be transparant, clear, with clear formulas and a futuristic horizon, decision-making advice for
immediate action.
- Because youre not only hiring our experience but our decision power in any scenario:
- May it be in situations of heavy weather (recovery)
- A start-up
- If you want your new investment to work at full power
- If your business-model needs a creative turn
- If you want to fill in a temporary vacancy
4. What more can I do for you?
Besides interim management and coaching, I can be at your service in several other ways:
- Advice on what direction your company can take in the future (boardroom advice);
- A financial screening of your company (executed by one of my partners in my network)
- Advice on how to organise your company or change it. Ex.: When you need to downgrade it or keep a steady growth;
- Advice and execution with development and implementation of an existing department. Ex.: How your HRM
department can develop into the future;
- Help and guidance in finding the right person for an important vacancy;
- Mediation when a problem threatens to be permanent or is already permanent;
- Help when you need to be active in a foreign branch (Ex.: Buying or selling of real-estate, construction of an office);
- A presentation with full power and clear language to motivate the audience (staff, customers);
- A brain storming session with your staff to find out new alternatives for your business;
- Help with projects to improve the image of your company.
Lots of tasks can be dealt by and through Willems Visie en Actie,
We work under an important philosophy: a good adviser never stays too long!
Willems Visie en Actie operates within a network of experts, so you dont depend on one person for specific
knowledge and skills. You are insured with the best tailor made expertise.
Just ask and we fill it in for you!
5. Willems Visie en Actie, the difference
A meaningful action needs a vision and no vision makes sense if its not followed by proper actions
Unfortunately, lots of companies act without a clear vision. Sometimes a lot of time is put in the process of developing an
idea, but the important actions that make the vision real are lost in the shuffle
Willems Visie en Actie coaches and guides in this kind of process, either through business coaching or interim management,
in order to keep your core business on track.
- Simplicity through decisive actions
- Developing a clear vision
- Making choices and taking right decisions
- Taking immediate action
- Making adjustments and monitoring where necessary
Decisiveness
Wide scope of experience
No-nonsense
Energetic
Network of experts
6. Willems Visie en Actie, the difference (2)
We will take into account your companies culture, so changes can be fully absorbed by the company:
- Identify and eliminate resistance, within the company
- Identify urgency
- Stimulate creativity
- Design a vision
- Formulate actions
- Action!
It is all possible, within a wider scope, or within specific angles through coaching or interim management. In every situation
and challenge there is always a positive solution advantageous to all
We will pay attention to the contents/details, but especially to the process. Whatever you want, always depends on the
human factor.
What makes the difference? CONTENTS and BEHAVIOR. As a result, the process will be more open and direct, thus goals
will be reached in a more effective and efficient way. The new and modified way of operating will not only remain in the
system, but will also become intrinsic to you and your staff
Interim management
Business coaching
Change management
7. Who is Wouter Willems? A profile (1)
A guy from Rotterdam-Holland, born and raised in the city where shirts are sold with the sleeves up in order to show the
working attitude, that is me.
I studied Business Economics (Master level) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the 70s.
Professionaly in 1979 I started in the field of Education as a teacher in retail management (mid-level) and later Maritime
Business Economics at the Polytechnical Faculty in Rotterdam. I proceeded as an Executive Assistant in a merger of 23
schools and later as an executive, CFO of a group of schools.
After that, in 1992, I made the change to Flower Auction Flora, acknowledged all over the world as the biggest auction of
the world, with thousands of employees and a turnover around 4 billion euro. I started as Manager of Flora Import (imports
of flowers from Africa, Middle East and Central and South America)- staff of 75, turnover 70 million euros, later as Sales
Director of the Flower Auction staff of 600, turnover 325 million euros. In 1999 I changed to CNB, market leader in flower
bulbs: purchasing and selling flower bulbs, perennials, trees, with several subsidiaries in real estate and trade. First as Sales
Director, later as CEO and Chairman of the Board- staff of 120, turnover 300 million euros. Even during challenging and
turbulent economic environments of crisis I managed to make profit! I always took responsibility, stepped up to the
challenge and delivered.
In 2014 I decided to start a different venture as a business coach and interim manager and be able tu use my long managing
experience in other business fields.
8. Who is Wouter Willems? A profile (2)
In my career I was active in different working fields. In Commercial Management (new business and sales), Finance, HRM, Real-
Estate and Public Relations/Communications. I managed several IT projects.
Due to my international business positions, I had exposure to many continents and countries. I am fluent in Dutch, English, German,
while proficient in French and Spanish.
My main strengths are:
Commitment you will have my full commitment in any project being big or small and in any business area
Creativity combined with a solution-oriented attitude
Great listening skills
Great adabtability skills I am able to adapt to good and hostile environments with great ease
In brief, I am a sparring partner on all levels in any company I work for. I focus on human behavior, adapt to it, change what is
necessary.
In other words: I not only row with the stream, but also against it, because any given situation has space for more positive results.