A portrait of COMPRiS & Gerald Holler in the online magazine
Short-time working? Not here. The Ludwigsburg-based COMPRiS GmbH, a B2B full-service provider, has grown by 35% since the beginning of the year, has hired 20 new full-time employees and has so far managed to get through the coronavirus period without short-time working.
A "COMPRiS visitor" recently said that she now comes more often because Managing Director Gerald Holler is one of the few entrepreneurs who is not complaining in the current situation. Holler is coping well with unusual situations like the current one. Although a lot is changing at the moment, including in his sales department, he has learned to deal with change. The B2B service provider used to spend a lot of time on site with customers. Now everything is done via virtual meetings instead, explains Holler in an interview with "Hallo Ludwigsburg".
The dynamics of time:
When things suddenly have to be done differently
Customer meetings that used to take place over an exclusive breakfast in the lounge of posh hotels now have to be held via video conference. They had to learn to communicate via camera, moderate online meetings, ensure the right lighting and use green screens. But after the first few weeks, they got the hang of it, says Holler, except for the green screen - they are still working on that.
Many people find it difficult to go along with the kind of changes we are currently experiencing and to suddenly do things differently. For Gerald Holler, change is part of it and he is firmly convinced:
"Only what - and who - changes
remains."
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"Everything that can be measured,
can also be measurably improved."
If the situation changes, you have to react. For Holler, recognizing this and acting accordingly is what makes good entrepreneurship. If someone claims that they have always had a strategy that has always worked, that is a retrospective view. Instead, you have to constantly adapt and react to changes.
"You have to be able to suffer a little."
This also includes "scratching at the edge of existence", which Holler has already experienced twice, "as an entrepreneur you have to be able to suffer a bit for that". Things are currently going well for COMPRiS GmbH.
Six new employees are needed
From sales controllers to sales assistants and inside sales representatives to B2B sales professionals: Gerald Holler is confident that he will find what he is looking for in Ludwigsburg and the surrounding area. "We can find the right resources and skills here."
"If someone has the motivation to want to learn things, then this is the right place for them."
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