COURSE
The HR toolbox
If you want to pay more attention to your employees, their wellbeing and performance, you will benefit from the impact of a fit-for-purpose HR role and essential HR practices: From recruiting & onboarding over talent management & development, to job categorisation, compensation and performance management:, career management, the importance of feedback and reflection. Even organizations without a dedicated HR function can thus create a professional and people-oriented working environment.
Who is this course for
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Startup Founders
You want to pay more attention to your employees, their engagement and satisfaction. Managers and leaders need the tools and support to effectively manage their people. Employee retention has become an issue. You have doubts that your company can attract the right talent. You have a newly appointed HR Manager who needs support and guidance.
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Innovative SMEs
You sense that a dedicated HR function might facilitate the growth of your company.
You have a newly appointed HR Manager who needs support and guidance.
You want to pay more attention to your employees, their engagement and satisfaction. Managers and leaders need the tool and support to effectively manage their people. Employee retention has become an issue. You have doubts that your company can attract the right talent.
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Accelerators & Universities
You are running an entrepreneurship trainings program and need to train your startup participants on anything related to people management.
The workshop “Organization Design and Essential HR Practices”, brought tremendous value to our startups. Huge thanks, Michael Kubiena.
Christian Bacher
Science Park Graz
What you will learn
How to improve people management
Your trainer for this course
With 25 years of experience across Central & South-eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East, Michael has held roles in HR, management and consulting.
He has managed HR departments of various sizes in startups and in corporate environments, specializing in the ICT & service industries. Michael’s respective expertise lies in strategic HR, compensation & performance management, talent management, and HR & management audits.
As a consultant, Michael’s work with startups and SMEs focuses on organization design and people practices; on leadership, culture and change. Furthermore, he works on concept & strategy development in the food industry and for non-profit organizations.
With degrees in business administration and cultural studies, along with an education in systems thinking & design, Michael offers a unique perspective on organizational dynamics.
Furthermore, his passion for food and sustainable urban food systems has led to his civil society engagement, as a speaker of the Vienna Food Policy Council.
How we support you
Other topics related to Organisational Design
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Organization design
A holistic understanding of organizations and their key design elements allows for more flexibility and creativity when responding to the challenges your organization is facing. If you want to professionalize and future-proof your organization you will benefit from a broader toolset and all-round perspective.
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OKR: Objectives & results
OKRs allow to turn strategy into action and to align strategy, employees and their performance. Furthermore, by introducing OKRs organizations and their leaders can develop a powerful participatory leadership instrument which encourages taking ownership and accountability across the entire organization.
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Designing Employee participation programs
The workshop offers an allround view on employee participation: from legal, strategic and organizational perspectives. Founders and entrepreneurs will receive orientation and a solid foundation for decision-making with regards to implementing and designing employee participation programs.
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Talent acquisition
The ability to attract the right employees to the company and retain them in the long term is a decisive competitive advantage. This includes developing an attractive, coherent and credible employer brand, communicating it convincingly and implementing it consistently.
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Navigation (Business) Cultures(s)
In order to deal with cultural differences and diversity constructively and appreciatively, a contemporary understanding of culture and its role in everyday life and in the world of work is required. Discovering and understanding cultural patterns: one’s own and those of customers, partners and colleagues.
Insights from our Workshops
Unpacking the intersection between customer and employee experience
The first International Conference for Customer and Employee Experience. Michael Kubiena was there to share his expertise.
How to present your startup at a virtual conference and online matchmaking
Switzerland Global Enterprise invited Petra Wolkenstein to use her experience in online sales and training to discuss with Swiss startups their next challenge: the Online BioTech Conference in the US for Sales. “We had some lively discussions about the 6 challenges of the online matchmaking meeting.”