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Gabor Wavrik

OD consultant, Trainer, Mentor & Coach

They said about me...

I have participated on a five month long leadership training. There I received useful and practical knowledge and, without exaggeration, a whole new perspective from Gábor. I was looking forward to every session. I got answers to important leadership and professional questions as well as increased self-awareness that guide me to this day. He operates with complex and thorough attention, possesses credible knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of topics, and has such a dynamic that the time on trainings seemed to fly by. My skillset as a leader has expanded with crucial realizations that are useful in practice. Valuable munition for a long career.

Dr. Orosházi Zsanett

HR leader

According to feedback, from both juniors and leaders, Gábor’s trainings were among the best of our development portfolio. He customized various topics to our company: assertive communication, cooperation with partners, difficult clients and escalation, receiving and giving feedback. One of the reasons why he is so successful, is his 20 years of experience as a senior leader and that he has actual operative knowledge. Because of this, attendants leave with practical and instantly implementable knowledge. Also, his entertaining and his interactive approach never fails to keep the attention.

Zsoldos Imre

director in pharmaceutical industry

I felt as Gábor had understood my situation in seconds and acted as a mirror. He made me realise what I have to change in myself, in order to help my predicament. I was able to confirm that I was in a good position at my workplace, and it became clear that the field where I had to change, was elsewhere. His questions made me think, his suggestions were spot on and easy to follow and were always adjusted to the situation. He is also humorous. I have received so much in a matter of a few months of coaching. Thank you!

Teisenhoffer Viktoria

head of regional sales, REUTERS

Gábor and his team had completed a complex task at our company. A goal of the program was on one hand, help the cooperation of our leader “triad”, on the other hand, improve the level of competence of our middle managers. We also got personal coachings too. We had accomplished significant improvements during the 10-month period of the program. For example, we had implemented the system of “relationship one to one” with more feedbacks. Also, the meetings became more efficient and we had developed a Communication Etiquette. Gábor’s personality, openness, and professional credibility is highly admirable

Dr. Kiss Róbert Károly

director, ONTE

Gábor is an outstanding presenter. He usually gets 10/10 points from training attendees, in both leader and middle manager trainings. The structure and portioning of the subjects are fantastic. The listeners can really “feel” the decades of leadership experience, his honesty and enjoy the true stories as examples. It is great working with him as trainer too. Working out the themes and implementation is quick, smooth and innovative.

Perei Viktória

head of operation, cooperating partner, GERILLA

We have worked together with Gábor for over half a year. When I approached him, I was in a difficult situation as a leader. At my company we had joint responsibility for a team with another senior colleague of mine, with limited resources. I had no concept of how to manage this properly. My primary goals were to make myself accepted better by my team, to strengthen the trust with my bosses and to improve my cooperation with peers. During the coaching process, I was promoted, with a much larger responsibility than before. I also regained my faith that my leadership style can also be successful.

Baricz Előd

team leader, IBIDEN

Our company had the pleasure of working with Gábor on both the leader and employee level. We were extremely pleased with his program. It was tailored to our needs, and kept in mind not only seniority, but functional differences as well. We got valuable and practical advices, but in the meantime, he worked on our soft skills too (communication, working with clients and leaders, etc). Besides his professionalism, I would also like to highlight that his trainings are highly interactive, thus participants do not lose their attention.

Mohácsi Csilla

head of HR

Working with Gábor is special because his knowledge is not only theoretical, but instead based on decades of hard earned experience! We had worked together as a team and in one-to-one developments too. He radiates incredible calmness and joy. During our work together we had created a talent program for our junior colleagues who seek to develop themself, where they can acquire knowledge about leadership and improve their self-awareness. Three collegues from this talent program has been already promoted into our leadership team. Thanks to him our projects are much more efficient as well.

Molnár Szabolcs

owner-manager, EUROJET

After my foreign correspondent and journalist career, when I was promoted as the CEO of UNICEF Hungary, I knew I was in need of a business coaching. Gábor was not the first professional I had met, but certainly he was the first I could really work together with. He not only gave me structure and self-confidence, but practical knowledge as well. I was looking forward to the sessions, I always knew they were well worth my time. As a result of the successful coaching I have also asked him to work in the company too, so he not only helped me, but my whole team. I recommend him wholeheartedly!

Mészáros Antónia

managing director, UNICEF

Introduction and methodology

I do believe that there is always a way and a reason to improve. Even as a leader after 15+ years of experience. I also believe that most of the time with outside help it is faster and easier to develop ourselves or to solve a difficult situation. Corporate life has its laws, rules and tricks. Therefore, the right advisor, invited at the right time, can spare time and effort for a company, in the event of change or growth. With more than 10 years of advisory experience behind me, I am still as enthusiastic as ever when approached with an organizational development, training or coaching job. I usually get this feedback at the end of most corporate programs. I worked for nearly 25 years as a leader, 17 years as a manager of managers, led large teams in various industries and functions. Sometimes at multiple companies simultaneously (Price Waterhouse, ING Bank, Diageo, Vodafone, Globus Canning Factory, Internetto, etc.). During this time, I was responsible for the performance of approximately 1500 people. I have both worked and studied abroad for extended periods of time (USA, London, Amsterdam, Vienna). Due to my broad and complex professional background my trainings are experience based. I use many case studies, story-telling, role playing, self-designed models and only a few slides. As a graduated mathematical-economist, I finished my first coaching training (“Coaching leader”) in 2006. However, the “Decision Based Coaching Academy” training in 2016 gave in my hand a more psychological approach. I enjoy holding team coachings, leadership developments, soft- and hard skill trainings. During personal developments, I use the coaching approach or mentoring depending on what is needed in the situation. If required, we work on the procedures, policies or strategy of the client together in a form of a workshop. Thanks to the cooperation with my partner companies, we can quickly build a team for bigger jobs. The key words in my working philosophy are: trust, credibility, result-orientation, consciousness and informality.

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Services - for leadership

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Leadership development programs are designed for three levels: junior leaders, middle management, senior leaders. The junior level trainings go through all the important leadership skills: self-knowing, adopting and managing change, delegation and empowerment, trust, coahing leadership approach, employee engagement and motivation, generational differences, cultural differences, leadership career stages, role of lobby power, receiving and giving feedback, situational leadership, communications skills, etc. Middle managers receive a tailored made program, focusing on the issues determined by the company. Senior programs are mainly about in-depth self-knowing, self-awareness and how one can built up a sustainable and successful senior leadership career.

IMPROVIG THE COOPERATION AMONGST LEADERSHIP TEAM MEMBERS

We use a more “phycological” approach to improve the cooperation within teams, called “team coaching”. There is always tension within a team, if there has been significant personal changes, or in case of a considerable business change or double digit revenue increase, or even in case of a new boss, etc. In these circumstances, it is advised to discuss the organizational tension a transparent way, and start to proactively manage it. Based on our experience this fragile process can be safer and/or more efficient if facilitated by an external expert. The methodology requires a minimum 1 day off-site, but we recommend a sleepover 1,5-2 days event most of the cases, with 2 consultants and an action plan at the end of the event.

Services - for all levels

INDIVIDUAL COACHING AND MENTORING

During the coaching, the coachee is facilitated to find her/his own solutions, therefore becomes much more committed to make the necessary changes in behavior or thinking than if she/he were advised. However, there are certain situations when the client needs more guidance, i.e. mentoring as a result of lack of experience and therefore no chance to find solutions by herself/himself. On our coaching and mentoring sessions, we can flexibly mix the coaching and mentoring approach as required by the client and/or the situation.

SOFT SKILL TRAININGS

Soft-skill trainings are very interactive. The small number of Power Point slides results in that minimum 80% of the day consists of role plays, case studies, story-telling and discussions. Almost all soft-skills are part of our portfolio: communication, relationship building, assertive behavior, feedbacks, adopting change, problem with perfectionism, ownership and proactivity, managing stress, managing conflict, presentation skills, time-management, etc.

HARD SKILL TRAININGS

There is a narrow line between hard-skill trainings and workshops, because most of the time we combine these two in order to give as useful and practical knowledge to the client as possible. A few topics from the list: process development, efficiency increase, KPI’s and management information for productivity, HR functions, effective meeting culture, policy and process documentation with common sense, project management, presentation skills, work in home office environment, recruitment with AC (assessment center), strategic planning.