Transitions and changes are taking place more and more and faster than ever. Voluntarily or unvoluntarily. Suddenly or creeping in. With this program, the way is paved for the career switch.

• It ranges from the leaving of the company ("offboarding") to coming back and to positioning oneself ("onboarding") in a new task.
  
• The program goes beyond conventional outplacement: it also puts in hand the communicative, content-related and psychological level for successful transition.
  
• You recognize the hidden connections and the leveraging effect of this phase.
  
• You are primed for executive search-interviews, test procedures, networks of contacts, the mechanisms of recommendation and matters as regards reputation.

Further reading:
"Die unvermeidliche Heldenreise"
The Kurier newspaper column: "Transitzeit"
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The desire for sound leadership is greater than ever. Leadership is by no means a constant factor - it calls for a newfound understanding of motivation, following, leading oneself and community-management.

• Generation X and Y ask for a completely new behavioral pattern.
  
• Leadership dilemma - by way of example, increasing the profitability in times of employee discontentment - are worsening.
  
• More and more reports and audits have to be handled.
  
• The climb from middle to top management must be made quickly.
  

In counseling, I prepare those in leading positions for the rapidly changing demands placed on staff leadership and the subsequent new enterprise interaction: adaptable leading on the front, experimental learning and managing, innovation-management, new values and patterns of conduct owing to new work and organizational models, intergenerational cooperation and the requirements made of communication and interaction in the 21st century take center stage here.

Further reading:
"Heldenreise"
"Karriere nach der Karriere"
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The midway juncture of work-life is governed by its own laws. The start of a 2nd or 3rd career encounters a new type of urgency.

• The question "How to go on?" sets off many triggers: an abrupt career halt, reaching the glass ceiling, oneís own dissatisfaction or a personal crisis.
  
• Much has been achieved and should now be preserved. Nevertheless, much also should or has to be changed at the same time. A contradiction?
  
• In counseling, new ways to act and concrete new career alternatives, ways out of the crisis or new angles are worked out with the aid of auditing methods.

Further reading:
"Karriere nach der Karriere"
"Lebensmitte/OE1/ORF"
Hören Sie einen Auszug aus der Ö1 Sendung
"Radiokolleg - Lebensmitte als Chance" zum Thema
"Die Kunst des Älterwerdens" (Teil 2) von Beate Firlinger vom 15. Juni 2010 um 09.05 Uhr

Those in leading positions who are holding staff, respectively cross function positions, are under ever-increasing pressure. On one hand, they are faced with cost targets, business process outsourcing or task outsourcing; on the other hand, their strategic significance is growing and the role/ task portfolio is becoming more and more a challenge.

• To conceive of oneself in the new role and dynamics, the most effective positioning and its successful implementation are worked out in counseling.
• In this regard, there's more to it than in-house PR - the focus here is on viewpoints as regards content, assertion, and the powers of conviction.

Further reading:
"Reputationsmanagement"
ZFU article: "In Position bringen"
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Supervisory bodies and advisory committees are in the public eye and face a new kind of responsibility, governance-conditions and legal liabilities. Moral obligation and demands on sustainability place additional demands on a new supervisory board member.

• In counseling, these new requirement claims are worked out.
  
• It concerns an effective meeting design, role & positioning in the supervisory body council, explicit & implicit rules of the game and mechanisms as regards reputation aspects.
  
• The identification of such psychological dynamics is effective in terms of conduct - it makes for more authority and assertion.

Further reading:
"Reputationsmanagement"
Initiative AufsichtsRäte Austria
www.inara.at

Extreme conditions on the job - cost pressure, demands on effectiveness at the workplace, personal overstressing, the familiar pressure - contribute now more than ever to personal and career crises.

Further reading:
"Heldenreise"
The Kurier newspaper column: "Burn Out"

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