How we can help with
The HR Toolbox
You will learn how to design and implement effective HR practices and procedures that align with your strategy. We equip you with instruments to effectively manage your employees, improve retention rates, and foster a professional people-oriented work environment. You will learn practical techniques for building a credible employer brand ensuring your organization remains competitive in the market.
Your challenges are taken care of
How do we develop, motivate & retain our employees?
How do attract the right talent and what do new recruits expect?
How do we create a fair, attractive and employee-friendly working environment?
Which leadership competencies do we need to ensure the success of teams and the organization?
How do we recognize & reward performance, (how do we sanction under-performance)?
Do we need a dedicated HR-role and which competencies does an HR-responsible need?
Areas in which we work with you
Key elements of work
- We recognize what the organization and its employees need.
- We develop the scope and positioning of HR in a way that fits with the organization.
- We reevaluate current HR practices with regards to their effectiveness and impact.
- We develop relevant HR instruments and guide their operationalization.
- We support you in the development of your leadership team and their understanding of their roles.
- We assist HR responsibles who are new in their role.
Results you will get
Development of HR instruments
HR processes
Role descriptions
Development of HR performance indicators
Project-lead by a senior partner
Michael Kubiena
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.
Expertise we bring
Strategic HR Management
Translation of corporate strategy into HR strategy and programs. Establish scope and dimension of the HR function for the respective organization.
Role clarity and job evaluation
Building the basis for professional people practices while improving transparency and collaboration.
Compensation and performance management
Development of transparent compensation structures and fair, effective instruments for performance management and appraisal.
Recruiting, on-boarding and talent management
Design of employer branding, search and selection tools; of onboarding and development processes.
Competence. Experience. Excellence. Full Commitment! Thank you for all the great workshops and the coaching.
Petra helped us in structuring the key message and all relating documents for finding venture capital for a newly founded start-up in the field of green chemicals. Petra also provided us contacts and venture opportunities for our mission. We totally appreciated Petras’s very experienced, well-skilled but still hands-on way of working with us. Petra is perfectly capable of sensing what her customers really need. We really learned a lot! Thank you, Petra.
Petra’s highly structured and positive approach proved to be golden for Goldkehlchen. Her multiple challenges and understanding of our business challenges made her an indispensable sparring partner in the consulting process. She joined us as a coach and remains with us as part of our extended team.
I was able to enjoy another great workshop at i2c last week. Petra Wolkenstein shared her knowledge on B2B negotiations with us. My personal highlight was a role-play we did. We formed teams of two-each person representing one of two parties- with the task to negotiate a deal. The scenario was about a scientist and a corporate that had to agree upon IP-rights so that they could bring a new product to the market. If successful, the deal would yield increased revenues to both, but they had different expectations towards the success chance of the project.
Unfortunately, our Founder Lab – Creative Industries at the Vienna Business Agency has now officially come to an end. But this valuable experience of building my own business with your support, so much warmth, appreciation, inspiring feedback and priceless impulses is simply incredible. Great collaborations, projects, commissions and synergies have been created. Thank you dear team for your touching farewell words to me. I am still very touched…
TRAXIT graduates from SWG OPA! With great honour and pleasure, we received our Graduation Diploma from Startup Wise Guys Online Pre Accelerator.
Big thanks to all SWG Team, and in particular Cristobal Alonso, Andrea Orlando, Asta Vasiliauskaite, Marta Madara Dundure, Karina Lapina, Andra Bagdonaitė and all supporting and external Mentors for the highly valuable insights on Pitching, Company Values and Purpose, Sales and Financials. In particular Paola Gariglio, Juan Carlos Martinez Barrio, Petra Wolkenstein and Patrick Collins, among others. We loved being there and being pushed to the limits! It was a rich and productive program.
Petra’s support with the sale of the company gave me the expertise and experience that I lacked in this area. I am delighted that we were able to bring the project to such a positive conclusion. The industry is not easy.
The sale of the company together with Konsultori went extremely well. The consultant’s experience helped with such a complex issue. The sales concept and the negotiation support were decisive.
Petra’s “let’s do it” attitude is a perfect match to the dynamics of a startup team. Her work leads to impressive results.
Petra led a strategy revision process in a dynamic, expanding medium-sized company across several divisions under time pressure. She has the ability to get the most diverse division heads on board, even with difficult topics. The result was a perfect fit.
A big “thank you” for your workshop “Debunking the investor process” in our Accelerator Programme at Gateway. It was an absolute highlight for me this year. Especially the concept of “rich or king” will be with me from now on.
Vienna, where there are many opportunities and contacts, helps us time and again. Petra Wolkenstein, who does M&A consulting, helped us with the financing round.
It was great having you here Petra, thank you for all the support for the founders!
Thanks for your great support!!
Today the very first workshop of our #growthlab went online! Great experience thanks to the guidance of Petra Wolkenstein, and the participation of our freshly selected batch members. It`s great to see people joining from the comfort of their homes, bringing in different perspectives and experiences and being involved in open discussions about their businesses.
Nice session, Petra!! Thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience.
Thanks, Petra Wolkenstein for being part of an amazing coaching team.
We just successfully wrapped up Batch 9 Riga program, and on behalf of whole SWG team I wanted to say BIG THANKS for your participation in the program and offering the teams your experience and time!
Thank you very much for your time and valuable insights.
Thank you, Petra, for your great insights on the investor readiness topic!
We really appreciate the great help and tips we received during Investor Dynamics training, and the valuable feedback and hands-on approach, which gave us a clear picture, what activities are most important for us and how to execute them.
Dear Petra! It was a pleasure for me to learn from your experience today, it was a great 2nd level negotiations workshop, I’m looking forward to applying the learned knowledge in my future meetings and negotiations.
Petra Wolkenstein provided us with very professional and helpful support in various phases. Starting with company coaching in the area of internationalisation through to support in the search for investors. Especially in this phase, the cooperation worked very well and Petra was able to find us high-quality and suitable investors. The network of investors extends far beyond the borders of Austria and has a very good breadth and depth. Thank you very much for your excellent, proactive support!
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Thank you konsultori team! It was our pleasure to be present in the vibrant Startup ecosystem that Vienna is becoming and to be part of the Wirtschaftsagentur Wien Vienna Startup program. One of the biggest advantages though was to learn from you and to work with you on our future plans.
Our Ag-Tech Startup Accelerator always aims at having motivating speakers and workshops in order to develop the founders‘ skillsets further. Petra Wolkenstein held an incredibly informative and exciting negotiations workshop where everyone had a lot fun while taking away numerous learnings. I can highly recommend her negotiations workshop to everyone who needs to improve in this field.
Thank you for the amazing negotiations training today at Startup Wiseguys and the great mentoring session!
In Petra Wolkenstein, we have found someone who will provide us with consistent and targeted support in focusing our services and, building on this, will help us to decisively develop our presence in digital and social media. The contribution of her personal experience in dealing with these media and her corresponding expertise are a decisive factor in the expansion of our customer base. I can only warmly recommend Mrs Wolkenstein. What she develops and drives forward in the start-up scene also has great applications for us as an SME. The positive development of our company over the last 5 years of working with Mrs Wolkenstein is the best proof of this.
Petra is definitely one of the very best M&A experts that I met.
Our process
01.
Initial consultation & project outline
We engage in a thorough discussion to understand your specific needs, goals, timeline, budget, and general project requirements.
02.
Organizational Diagnosis
We analyze and recognize what the organization and its employees need. We evaluate current HR-practices with regards to their effectiveness and impact.
03.
Setting the HR agenda
We develop the scope and positioning of HR in a way that fits with the organization and its strategy.
04.
Development of the first HR tools
We develop relevant HR instruments and guide their oprationalization.
05.
Shaping the HR role
We facilitate and guide the design of the HR function, its scope and dimension and help shape the right understanding of the HR role in the organization.
06.
Support implementation
We support HR-responsibles new to their role as well as managers and leaders who take on HR-responsibilities.
How we support you
Advisory
Individual projects tailored to your situation but based on our proven framework and approach. You work with your Konsultori expert or team.
Case studies
Compensation architecture and performance management via OKRs
The best way? Involve the whole company in a dialogue about the services that affect its customers and its employees.
Developing a learning centre & curriculum for culinary discovery
Collaborations with prestigious European hospitality institutions underline Gastronometro’s commitment to quality and innovation.
Lorenz-Consult in an interview: What the strategic realignment has done for us
Strategic realignment and internationalization. DI Christian Lorenz talks about corporate succession and the new strategy.
Other expertise in Organisational design
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Organizational set up and (Re)-alignment
We use a holistic approach, that considers all aspects of your organization and work with a comprehensive organization model. We make your organization’s capabilities, its cultural and behavioural patterns visible and can thus identify opportunities for improvement. Based on our findings, we prioritize and plan interventions in structures, processes, and roles to drive positive change.
02.
Leadership and culture
First-time leaders as well as seasoned managers and executives are faced with ever-changing demands and growing expectations.
Konsultori experts will offer a holistic view on leadership which pays tribute to this increasing complexity and provides insights into the critical role of leadership in driving performance, promoting innovation and leading change.
