{"id":8171,"date":"2023-09-01T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sw.fst.com\/magazine\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2023-09-15T15:48:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T13:48:25","slug":"together-we-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sw.fst.com\/magazine\/en\/2023\/09\/together-we-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTogether We Grow\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At the international \u00adAutomotive Sales meetings in San Diego and Barcelona, participants shared views and information on the \u00adtransformation of the auto business and the goals and strategies of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies (FST).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No one is closer to customers than sales organizations. Like a seismograph, the Automotive Sales staff picked up the looming upheaval in the auto business early on and passed the information on to colleagues inside the company. The industry has been busy dealing with trends such as emissions-free, battery-electric propulsion and autonomous driving. So have large swaths of FST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cgold fever\u201d that has seized the market is not expected to subside any time soon. It is equal parts pressure and momentum. The participants at the two Automotive Sales meetings over the summer, one in San Diego and the other in Barcelona, were unanimous on that point.
FST is seeing the rapid transformation of many products and applications. Entirely new players are now on the scene. In many cases, Automotive Sales is dealing with different contact persons as new e-mobility teams emerge. In some areas of application, such as battery technology, FST even competes with former customers at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new applications are forcing us to become a learning organization. We have to listen to our customers more closely than ever before, treat their problems as a challenge, and take them home with us,\u201d said Melanie Schneider, Vice President, Automotive Sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It happens again and again: The new e-mobility projects are turning out to be more time-consuming and require greater cooperation among all the parties than in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participants from Automotive Sales at the \u00admeeting in San Diego \u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Combining Forces And Learning<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In keeping with the idea of cooperation, the current Automotive Sales campaign motto is \u201cTogether we grow.\u201d The shared goal is to reshape the company\u2019s portfolio and develop employees to make FST\u2019s transformation of its automotive business a success. \u00adSchneider \u00addescribes \u201cTogether we grow\u201d as an initiative to \u201cacquire experience, communicate and learn from one another. We have a great team at FST, and if we combine our forces. we have a brilliant future ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FST can already report excellent examples of new business in totally new applications. It has filled its innovation pipeline as well. The focus was on incubator projects at both Automotive Sales meetings in early summer. They are nurtured with extraordinary care like premature infants during their very first phase of life (see more on the topic on this page<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aside from business issues that came up in presentations by FST managers and other activities, colleagues introduced themselves, got to know one another, forged contacts and shared their knowledge and experience \u2013 all key activities in a meeting of this kind. A total of 30 new team members were attending for the first time. The meeting was designed to be interactive and to promote as many interesting discussions as possible, along with the rapid integration of the new employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 and those at the European meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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At Automotive Sales meetings in Europe and the Americas, it is a tradition to honor employees for their sales successes the previous year. The award-winners for 2022 are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enabler Award 2022<\/strong>
Rachel Black<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Execution Award 2022<\/strong>
Sandip Shinganapurkar
Uwe Klohr
Michael Yash
Mike Sampson
Martin Strauch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leadership Award 2022<\/strong>
Brad Henderson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Minded Award 2022<\/strong>
Dr. Peter Kritzer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ownership Award 2022<\/strong>
Christian Kudlek
Kazuya Tera
Carina Nykiel
Guilherme Monteiro
Eiji Narita<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales Performance Award 2022<\/strong>
Agnes Spohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Success Award 2022<\/strong>
Daniel Aschermann
Ann Schauerte
Grant Hedges<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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