Gallup® Certified
My services
I provide support for leaders who want to make a difference. Usually, this is a need that occurs at a crossroads – promotion, the new job, starting own business, taking over a family business by a successor, etc. This requires self-knowledge, the ability to confront conflicts, and creating the necessary changes. Attention! Conflict is the tension that comes from the gap between what we have and what we long for. I also like to work with young, ambitious people who want to become successful leaders and enjoy well-being.
The program begins with CliftonStrengths assessment and the subsequent consultation on its results. Only then it is possible to define the relevant personal development goals. To succeed, it is essential to build effective teams. These teams must be based on building quality relationships. This is done by coaching using both conversational and emotional intelligence tools. Today’s teams don’t need to be merely managed; their coaching is increasingly needed, too. Team coaching is a new coaching discipline, and there are only a few coaches in Slovakia who are trained for it. As for individuals, I prepare programs for teams according to their current needs.
Said about me
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Mission and Values
To enable people’s self-realisation to use their full potential, enjoy their work, and have a good and happy life, which will benefit all stakeholders.
Benefity
Managerial Challenges
Most managers get into their first management position without the necessary managerial training. They have little knowledge of how to build effective teams and how to develop talent. Sometimes they try to imitate managers they knew or know; other times, they try something they have heard or read about.
The best managers and leaders are neither the ones with no visible weaknesses (we each have some) nor those with much experience. And even not those with the best academic background. The most successful are the ones who excel in a limited number of skills and develop them. To do this, it is necessary to get to know oneself and acquire basic leadership skills.
The best students have an individual study plan. You deserve it, too. Together, we will create a personal development plan that will develop your strongest innate talents. The improvement will be rapid and significant. And you will enjoy it! Want to know how you’re doing with the most important leadership skills?
Gallup® Certified Strengths Coach
From Talents to Strengths
“Humans are imperfect creatures. You don’t “succeed” because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them…”
(Tim Ferris, Tribe of Mentors).
I am the first Slovak Gallup® certified strengths coach. I have been dealing with the topic of talents and strengths since 1999, which has helped me to an interesting managerial career with a significant contribution. What will it bring you?
By analyzing the talent profile, we will find out what you are doing well. After defining the goals that will unlock the most important potential, we will develop a plan for doing these things even better and more often. It will be easy, and you will enjoy it. The result will be new habits that will increase your performance and improve your relationships. It’s a journey from talents to strengths.
The new CliftonStrengths for Managers assessment will guide you on becoming a better manager using your ten strongest talents.
Gallup® Certified
Conversational Intelligence® (C-IQ)
Getting to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of the relationships, which depends on the quality of the conversations. Everything happens through conversations!
(Judith E. Glaser)
Conversational Intelligence® coaching will guide you through three levels of conversation, from transactional, through positional, to transformational. Four two-hour sessions will teach you to listen so that it “clicks”, ask questions you have no answers to, maintain the necessary conversation dynamics, all to build relationships based on deep trust.
You will learn how to mix the right neurochemical cocktail to create a suitable environment for productive communication.
Emotional Intelligence
In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams, and strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world.
(Daniel Goleman)
Lack of interpersonal skills and inability to adapt to the situation is among managers’ most common failures, especially in managing change. The EBW assessment will tell you how you are doing with your ability to motivate yourself, the need to influence others, determination, adaptability, empathic skills, conscientiousness and resistance to stress.
We will look at how to use your strengths productively to improve your emotional intelligence skills so that the opportunity to work together on your team will be a magnet for the best. You will learn to consciously change your leadership style according to the situation and need.
Team coaching
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
(S.Jobs)
Team coaching provides the greatest scope for exploiting the synergy of mutual knowledge of team members’ strengths and emotional intelligence skills. The EBW team assessment will provide information on how much energy must be spent on collaboration between individual team members.
You will learn how a team perceives its mission and/or vision, how it trusts itself, communicates, and engages, and how these factors affect teamwork. Working with strengths is then a process that optimizes team collaboration, allowing each team member to choose the right role and guide them on how to use their strengths to benefit the team.
About me
Synergies Offered
I offer a synergy of quality management education, many years of experience managing companies in Slovakia and abroad, knowledge and skills from top coaching courses for individuals and teams. I was responsible for operating the SEVES Group’s seven plants on three continents (Europe, Asia, South America). I managed companies in Slovakia, Germany, Austria and Sweden, and was chairman of the boards of directors in Thailand and China.
Other Activities
Before taking up the global position, I served on several boards (non-profit organizations and universities) and was a member of the rating committee of the Slovak Rating Agency. I am a founding member of the Business Alliance of Slovakia, of which I have been president since August 2018.
GALLUP
EBW
GTCI
EMCC
Alliances
I work with renowned experts in Slovakia, England and the USA.
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Janka Bernaťáková is an expert in creating a motivating and productive work environment. She uses proven change management techniques supported by experience from its own managerial and consulting practice. We have created a workshop that focuses on building a culture of strengths and supporting the necessary leadership and management skills.
John ‘Bob’ Spence is an expert in business development by building a strategic network that generates sales. His negotiation training aims to acquire skills that will allow him to make enough profit. My contribution is coaching aimed at the client to use Bob’s recommendations authentically, i.e. using strengths.
Jeffrey Wallk is a corporate “chiropractor”. He can reliably identify the causes of the biggest problems and design an ecosystem that eliminates these problems and prevents them from recurring in the future. Our common vision is that managing people is not about cost but maximizing the value that people can create for all stakeholders. To do this, it is necessary to coach the teams responsible for making the necessary changes.
Interviews
Columns
- From Talents to Strengths (n. 83-100)
- How to create value (n. 79-82).
Contributions to the books
