Madjno Consulting un Coaching

Career planning and development

„Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.“
Viktor E. Frankl

Since change has become an integral part in the modern working world, also careers have to adapt. Professional paths that are consistent and straightforward are a thing of the past. Therefore, it is crucial to push pause from time to time, reflect on your career development and consciously plan your next steps.

I offer individual coaching as well as seminars to help you shape your career path. With a focus on your personal requirements, values and goals, you reflect on your vocational biography and gain a clearer picture of the chances and obstacles in your organization. Based on these acquired insights you can define next steps and options for action.

Leadership skills and competencies

„The quality of a leader depends on whether people become smaller or bigger when cooperating with them.“
Rupert Lay

Today’s managers need to cover a wide area of competencies. Not only the traditional skills of developing and guiding a team, delegation, communication, managing conflicts or motivation are essential but also the question how the role of a leader needs to change in times of digitalization, diversity and change.

Regardless if you require coaching (as an individual or a team) or in-house training, I offer various settings for further developing your leadership skills tailored to your organization’s and your individual goals and development needs. Deepening your ability for self-reflection, offering exercises and simulations closely mirroring your real-life challenges and suggesting new perspectives and interventions help you to further develop as a leader.

Mediation and Organizational Development

„The source of all conflicts between me and my fellow human beings is that I do not say what I mean and that I do not do what I say.“
Martin Buber

Two departments or colleagues get into serious arguments again and again. The fighting is taking its toll on work flow and efficiency, positions become entrenched. Managers and colleagues try to organize processes and tasks around the conflicting parties. The parties discuss agreements and solutions but fail to put them into action. The conflict escalates and eats up time, energy and money. Unresolved conflicts cause damage on all levels and companies can’t afford to waste money in these highly competitive times.

Conflicts can serve as an important indicator for several problems within an organization:

• the organization’s structure isn’t conducive to smooth processes
• unresolved overlaps of responsibilities are escalating
• a lack of clear and binding agreements or
• the absence of a constructive conflict culture.

The combination of mediation and organizational development can help to create sustainable solutions: By de-escalating the conflict, establishing a positive conflict culture and implementing useful and supportive structures both the acute conflict can be taken care of as well as the further development of the team or the organization.

If one of the following aspects fits your situation, then you should consider mediation in combination with organizational development:

• several employees with different functions are involved in a conflict
• a conflict stretches over several hierarchical levels or across several project teams
• the conflict is rather escalated and past efforts to solve it have only escalated the situation further.

Career development for female professionals and leaders

Designing your own roadmap – Today many women have a sound education and are highly qualified which opens up many choices when it comes to making career decisions. At the same time there is a lack of role models when female professionals look for guidance regarding career and life planning – especially when they consider taking over a management position. When trying to decide whether to take the next step on the career ladder many women are faced with questions that aren’t easy to answer and dilemmas that are hard to solve.

Are you asking yourself “What’s next?”, “What should I do?” or “Do I want to take this next step?”

Discussing your situation with other women and a professional coach can help to take stock, get a new perspective on your situation and build a solid foundation for a well-considered decision.

The seminar deals with the following goals and topics:

• Career planning and individual requirements, values and goals
• Scrutinizing opportunities and risks of your next career move
• Reflecting your vocational biography and understanding the opportunities and barriers within your organization
• Defining and planning your next steps and options for actions

We will focus on these contents and questions:

• What does “career” mean – to you, to your environment?
• What are your personal goals for your career and your private life?
• What are your motivators and boosters?
• How do colleagues, employees, managers perceive you? What is your effect on others?
• Life stages: applying the model to your own story
• Challenges and opportunities for female professionals and leaders

The seminar consists of several elements:

• Kick-off mail from trainer with questionnaire regarding individual real-life case and participants’ goals and experiences
• Seminar (2,5 days) where you also build teams to continue your development process in-between the seminar and the follow-up day
• Putting your plan for your next development steps into action
• Follow-up on individual cases and best practice sharing after 4 months

Participants:

Maximum of 8 participants

Duration:

2,5 days seminar
Follow-up day (after 4 months)

Contact

NICOLA MADJNO
Plauener Straße 18
80992 München
Telefon: +49 89 14342992
E-Mail: info@madjno-consult.com

Developing Leadership Skills for the Digital Age

Today’s working world is facing fast and drastic changes. It’s become almost impossible to predict the development of a company, decisions are ephemeral and short-lived, structures are ambiguous and unclear. In our times of digitalization with increased dynamics, complexity and diversity, leaders face new challenges. Many of the traditional styles and models for leadership have become outdated.

The seminar supports you in finding your leadership style and the necessary skills to navigate in these demanding circumstances.

Goals

You understand the implications of social changes and developments on you as a leader and develop deeper insight and understanding on how to lead and manage successfully in these new environments.

Our offer

We will deal with the following questions:

• What are the skills and competences I need as a manager now and in the future?
• What does “Digital Leadership” mean?
• How do I motivate employees to try new ways of thinking and offer the necessary leeway?
• How do I integrate the wide range of diversity (origin, socialization, age, gender, lifestyles)?

Time to reflect helps you to access your full potential and resources crucial for your job as a manager. We will work on your individual causes and concerns, add new skills to your leadership repertoire and adjust the focus on established strategies and interventions.

We will discuss these phenomena, theories and models:

• The new digital world of work
• Generation gap and the diversity of values
• Model of life-phases
• Cultural sensitivity
• Resilience
• Motives and motivation

Duration

The seminar is divided into two sessions. The 4-month gap between the modules gives you a chance to reflect and work on your goals and insights, thus deepening your competencies as a manager and fine-tune your newly acquired repertoire in module 2.

Module 1: 2,5 days
Module 2: 2 days

Contact

NICOLA MADJNO
Plauener Straße 18
80992 München
Telefon: +49 89 14342992
E-Mail: info@madjno-consult.com