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About P&P

Pendl & Piswanger (P&P) started in 1980 as a personnel consultancy in Vienna. Today P&P is a full-service consultant specializing in executive search and human resource consulting.
P&P has been active across Austria and CEE since 1990 with currently 14 offices. P&P is the first address for cross-border personnel consulting, training and consulting.

As a shareholder of InterSearch with 90 offices worldwide, P&P/InterSearch is one of the top 10 consultants with a uniform international standard and its own training academy.

With this claim, P&P guarantees high quality solutions in all areas of human resource management.

Our Team

Team

Management P&P Group

Peter Pendl
CEO and founder, Managing Director P&P Vienna
Norbert Etz
Head Partner Relations, authorised signatory P&P Vienna
Andreas Wismek
Head Training & Coaching, Partner, Managing Director P&P Vienna
Romana Kovacs
InterSearch Regional Director CEE, Managing Director P&P Slowenia
Josef Fritz
Managing Director Board Search
Franz Frotzler, Managing Director P&P Unternehmensberatung

Vision & Mission

To be the preferred and trusted advisor by combining heart and mind with latest technologies.

Our vision

We identify, provide and develop human excellence for business excellence.

Our mission

Our values

We value long-term partnerships.

We strongly believe in business ethics as a high value and integral part of our corporate identity.

We tailor our approach to our clients’ needs, aligning them with our quality standards.

We love what we do and go the extra mile.

We understand leadership as guidance and support to inspire our clients and ourselves in proceeding to excellence.

We think and act entrepreneurial, are committed to add value and take responsibility for the results we deliver.

About InterSearch

P&P Advisory Board

The P&P Advisory Board consists of experienced personalities from business life. They provide their know-how for the strategic development of P&P.

Stephan Blahut, General Secretary of the Austrian Business Association, brings people together, gives wings to ideas and helps companies to shape projects and products.
Franz Grohs
Franz Grohs was last Managing Director of T-Systems Austria. Before this, he was with T-Systems in various key positions internationally. Among his responsibilities were building a Nearshore/Offshore-Organisation and Cyber Security Center for T-Systems worldwide, and various functions in Sales & Service EMEA and APAC.
Gerhard Krennmair is a manager and recognized expert in the fields of digitization, business and strategy planning and e-commerce. Previously, he was managing director at Pendl & Piswanger and Hewlett Packard. He is a sought-after member in many business organizations and associations.
Walter Pfaller
Walter Pfaller is the founder of an international interim management company and has many years of experience as a managing director and supervisory board in several CEE countries and in the restructuring of national companies.
Alexander Picker has restructured international banks as Executive Director, specializes in crisis management and legal and operational mergers. As a multilingual manager and expert in World Bank projects, he is a sought-after speaker at international conferences.

Sustainability

We look for and find the best minds for you, maybe use more approaches than others, do more research and pay attention to the culture of your company. Up to three years later we check your satisfaction with the managers or experts recommended by us and provide “advice and assistance”. If necessary, we also recommend a coach for further development. Your long-term success is our goal.

Each P&P training is reinforced by a follow-up or transfer concept and thus ensures the implementation of newly acquired knowledge, skills or abilities to a high degree. Our credo: master the future successfully!

We want to know what is bothering you and we offer our method and content know-how to find solutions. Our diverse methods include the framework “Investors in People”. Through benchmarking, this scientifically sound concept of success ensures that you can be on par with the success parameters of successful companies – and maybe even acquire a certification in silver, gold or platinum status!

 

We look for and find the best minds for you, maybe use more approaches than others, do more research and pay attention to the culture of your company. Up to three years later we check your satisfaction with the managers or experts recommended by us and provide “advice and assistance”. If necessary, we also recommend a coach for further development. Your long-term success is our goal.

Each P&P training is reinforced by a follow-up or transfer concept and thus ensures the implementation of newly acquired knowledge, skills or abilities to a high degree. Our credo: master the future successfully!

We want to know what is bothering you and we offer our method and content know-how to find solutions. Our diverse methods include the framework “Investors in People”. Through benchmarking, this scientifically sound concept of success ensures that you can be on par with the success parameters of successful companies – and maybe even acquire a certification in silver, gold or platinum status!

 

Ethics & Data Protection

Our responsibility ...

  • We advise clients of any potential conflicts before we commiting to an assignment.
  • We only commit to assignments where the clients’ requirements are clearly understood and well defined.
  • We guarantee complete confidentiality of our clients’ information, plans and intellectual property.
  • We are independent consultants and act objectively. We recommend only the most suitable candidates.
  • We reccomend only suitable candidates who have been interviewed and assessed carefully, and who are judged to meet the requirements of the position and the candidate profile.
  • We will not approach candidates we have already placed, or employees of an organisation with which we have a business relationship.

 

  • We treat our candidates with respect and courtesy.
  • We guarantee our candidates prompt and detailed communication.
  • We do not accept any cash or benefits in kind from our candidates for our services.
  • We act neutrally and guarantee that all potential analyzes and assessments are evaluated by experts.
  • We only forward confidential information to the client with the consent of the candidate.
  • We only obtain references after consultation with the candidates.

for companies

Q & A

Our responsibility...

Our search process has five stages:

  • Your requirements: Discussing and understanding your requirements, corporate culture and objectives. Position and candidate profile. Attractiveness profile for candidates.
  • Planning: Best search strategies – Networks – Sources. Integration of internal candidates. Recommendations. Creating and aligning a target company list. Weekly progress reports.
  • Identification and evaluation: research – direct contacts, use of all sources. Long list. Structured interviews for candidates’ competence assessment. Evaluating motives for job change. Cultural fit.
  • Short list and selection: Discussing candidate reports. Interviews with customers, assessment or hearing. Reference collection
  • Decision: Final decision meeting. Support contract negotiation. Follow-up. Onboarding support.
  • Management versus leadership
  • Transformational leadership – new leadership
  • Mental strength
  • Resilience
  • Team building and collaboration
  • Conflict management
  • Error culture
  • Effective communication
  • Willingness and motivation
  • Customer relationship management
  • Convincing appearance and presentation
  • Work efficiency
  • Change processes
  • Digital transformation … and a lot more

We remain true to four principles:

  • Training made to measure – custom-made
  • Conscientious preparatory phase with fact finding
  • As many impulses as necessary, as few as possible – targeted and focused
  • Careful monitoring of success through sustainability modules

For you this means security and quality.

We trigger development processes for people and organizations and carefully accompany them until they are stable and measurably anchored. Our guidance and are your values, your goals and your potential. We adhere to this, coherently and individually.

Together with you, we record the current situation in a careful preparation process and set the desired goals. We adequately support all those involved in the change process. You can be sure that more will be implemented and that the lessons learned will last longer. We check and measure that after a while. Because your success is our concern.

  • Input – presentation – lecture
  • Emotional key notes
  • self reflection
  • Group work – group reflection
  • Experience-oriented learning methods – outdoor elements
  • Gamification
  • Authentic communication according to the Winterheller Method®
  • Transfer tasks
  • Implementation support – systemic coaching
  • Digital transfer support
  • Video supported formats
  • Successful possibilities of modern mental training from competitive sports – adapted to all other areas of life

We choose methods best suited for all participants and bring the greatest opportunities for implementation. From this we create the most effective strategy for active participation and the desired learning success.

We are enthusiastic about it and it is contagious. You can trust it.

In any case, we discuss and discuss with you your objectives, your expectations, your considerations and your schedule. Of course, this is free of charge.
Based on this, we make an offer. This is precisely tailored to your requirements with success monitoring to measure the sustainability of our performance – a detailed procedure is part of the offer, as well as time frames, costs and terms and conditions.
You are welcome to contact any of our colleagues with your request or send us your request to pp@pendlpiswanger.at. Our consultant with your industry background will then contact you.

Usually we do not. However, it is worth talking to us, as we adapt flexibly to your requirements and adapt our modalities accordingly. Part of the fee can be agreed upon based on success.
Contact us!