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Als Experte für Employee Experience widmet sich Richard Beulke der Gestaltung der Mitarbeitererfahrung im Unternehmen durch den Einsatz von Technologie. Spezialisiert auf Microsoft Lösungen mit besonderem Fokus auf Microsoft Viva, hilft er und sein Team Unternehmen deutschlandweit, jeden Moment im Arbeitsalltag in ein positives Erlebnis zuverwandeln.
Sein Ziel ist es, Technik so einzusetzen, dass sie nichtnur unterstützt, sondern begeistert und das Engagement aller Mitarbeitenden fördert.
Für mehr Informationen: DeinMicrosoft Partner für Employee Experience. (cloudfreunde.com)
Richard’s LinkedIn: (8) Richard Beulke |LinkedIn
Was läuft schief in unserer Gesellschaft? Dumm, Faul, Verzerrt!
Frederic: Redner & Autor für mentale Gesundheit, Ernährungspsychologie, Gesundheitspsychologie und ausgezeichenter TOP 100 Excellent Speaker.Mit den Themen Gesundhiet und Psychologie füllt er die Hallen.Diese Woche ist er bei uns zu Gast und wir sprechen zu seinen Herzensthemen.Wir sprechen in dieser Episode zu,
Next station: DREAM JOB!
Laura Villafuerte is Founder of the recruiting services agency: CareerBee,
for international managers growing their teams.
In this episode we discuss how to overcome the layoffs and envision your career growth as an international talent:
Many more of Laura’s tips for applying in Germany..
Laura Villafuerte | LinkedIn
I DEMAND! I WANT, I WANT, I WANT !
The entitled economy.
Overwhelmed with entitled new hires or entitled customers besieging negotiations?
Dr. Tobias S. Witte is Director Customer Value @Celonis.As the director customer value he earned the experience how to deal with expectation setting. Furthrmore, how to provide customer value in a feature centered tech world and help us handling expectation setting & entitlement handling.
In this episode we discuss:
How expectations increase overall.
How customer expectations turn into entitlement.
What problems a director customer value solves.
How do conversations transform leading with value driven discussions.
What the advantages are talking about values you bring to the table rather than talking about your own expectations.
How value discussions in Germany vs your USA differentiate from one another.
Find Tobias on LinkedIn: Dr. Tobias S. Witte (Doc T) | LinkedIn
Fear of choosing the wrong recruiting agency? Did you choose an agency not being able to bring your manager and your HR specialist together?
Nadja Eder is the CEO at SchuhEder Consulting -THE RECRUITING AGENCY OF THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY.Based on her experience, she positions herself as the CEO advisor and offers HR consulting & recruiting services to electronics industry businesses and implements tailored solutions finding the right talents for your specific needs.
In this episode we discuss:
For more infos: Nadja Eder | LinkedIn
Heard of the role as interim CTOs before? I was fortunate to meet and interview one.
Since 2018, Peyman Pouryekta has been a CTO at various companies. Based on his experience, he positions himself as CTO advisor and offers interim CTO services to startups and assisted companies in identifying and implementing tailored solutions.
In this episode we discuss:
With so many various roles as CTO, how did you step up to become CTO?
What is the biggest challenge becoming a CTO?
What are the most common misconceptions about the CTO role?
What has been your hardest decision as a CTO?
Where do CTOs draw the most value from working with you?
Thinking and decision making are two different things!
Richard Georg Graf developed his passion for leadership as an entrepreneur and serial founder. Since 1990s, he took responsibilities for the success of projects worth up to 3-digit million dollars. As early as 1975, he was programming on one of the first available computers, the Zuse Z23. From 1979, he was involved in the development and marketing of search engines and in the development of neural networks.
For the last 12 years, Richard dedicated his time to Decision-Making Management (DMM) and supporting teams to bring about jointly supported team-decision and awareness for DMM.
In this episode we discuss:
What Kahneman’s narrative and book on slow and fast thinking is about.
The reasons for Kahneman rise in publicity.
What the biggest fails presented in the book are.
Why a narrative with wrong statements fools us so easily.
Run before another WODOO AGILE coach gets you. Don’t get caught in the vanity matrix.
Since 2003, Matthias Orgler is an agile coach and consultant for business innovation.
After several years in the early 2000s working in Silicon Valley, he came back to Germany to transform business projects with the tools he learned over-seas and enhances the approaches with his years of experience.
In this episode we discuss:
What used to be and is agility in projects?
Why do so many “agile” projects fail?
Why do people shy away from “the agile framework”?
What a are bad KPIs and what are vanity metrics?
How to identify agile teams?
Learn more about Matthias:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/orgler/
https://www.tiktok.com/@agilitymaster
https://matthiasorgler.com
We spend about 2000 hours a year at work, so a lot of time working! This means it is important to be clear about what you want out of that process, otherwise you could end up unfulfilled and unhappy.Dorothy Dalton is an expert Career Coach with decades of experience and more recently she became an Ikigai coach and has supported thousands of individuals globally to reach their potential.
In our episode we discuss:
+How to find a coach?+What makes a “good” coach?+What to do when I am recently laid off?+What are the steps of successful job search?+What to regard looking for my next career step?
Calling your sellers partnership managers causes so much damage!
Prez Fryc is a Senior Partnerships Manager & Team Leader at Divante.For the last couple of years, he dedicated his life to lead a team of strategic bridge builders with other companies and guides his team how to nurture partnerships to their fullest potential.
In our episode we discuss:
Do you have any idea how many constructs you live in? Katrijn van Oudheusdenis a disillusionist. For the last couple of years, she dedicated her life to guide you to see the illusion of the limited, separate self, and uncover the joyful freedom of what we really are, in your own experience, beyond doubt using direct experiential inquiry.
In our episode we discuss:+ What means self less leadership?+ Why did we change from self less leadership to less self leadership?+ What kind of illusions are there we live our lifes with?+ What effect does it have on our life letting go of our constructs?+ Where to start with being open to other hypotheses of life?
Do you have any idea what is going on around the world? Sascha Pallenberg is a German Tech blogger, Podcaster, Chief Awareness Officer, Member of the Advisory Board and Consultant living in Taipei.
Sascha won the "Golden Blogger" award in 2015 for being the blogger of the year in Germany before he joined the corporate communication team at Daimler AG in February of 2017 as the Head of Digital Transformation.
In our episode we discuss:
Why is it important to understand macroeconomic effects?
What have been the biggest technical advancements in the last years?
How are Large Language Models different from other recent big tech hypes?
How do you stay informed, what it the right amount of time and how to consume the right news?
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Want to become a C level executive one day? CEO, CFO; CIO; CTO or COO?Daniel Delank he is COO at Loadbee, podcast host and business angel in the tech industry.He has been international leader for more than 15 years and lead a team of up to 300 people.
In our episode we discuss:
What do the different Chief executives take care of?
What does the COO take care of compared to the CEO?
How did Daniel become a COO and what did it take him to reach the role?
What principles to follow to develop yourself into the role and develop a chief executive mindset?
And much more…
Every company has a culture but only a few have a soul.
What does it take leaders to build a soul and live up to it?
My guest is Ralf Specht, creator of the Soul System framework, author and successful entrepreneur.
He has been a co-founder of Spark 44, a global joint venture with Jaguar Land Rover which was recently acquired by Accenture. In our episode we discuss:
What does it take to build a soul as a company?
How do you live up to a company soul as a leader?
How to ensure everybody understands the spirit statement and is stays present for every employee?
Who decides if the company has a soul?
And much more…
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Norman Nielsen is VP for growth at Omio one of the biggest travel platforms in the world. He is Speaker,Investor and University Lecturer and the perfect fit for our episode about new concepts of work.In our episode we discuss:> What does it take to lead a team working from anywhere they want?> What are the concepts of a 4 day work week?> How do onboarding processes change when everyone is on workcation? > How does the workstyle look like on global scale?
And much more…
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Consider switching industries? Do you have the career you aspire to have? Lead by example!
Lisa Glassner is the Head of Sales at Enlighted (a Siemens Company) in Europe. She is responsible for the regional team based in Germany and has been
Director, Regional VP and took similar roles at Starbucks, L’Oréal, Nestlé and Steelcase. In our episode we discuss:
How does it feel to move into an industry unfamiliar to you?
How do you position yourself against others sticking to one industry and field of expertise?
How do you transfer, and leverage expertise and experience gained in a different industry?
What mind shift and courage does it take for big career changes?
And much more…
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Are you ready for your promotion?
What does it take to make the next leap. Learn from the best.
Maya Grossmann has been a corporate 2x VP Marketing and earned experience working at Google and Microsoft. Today, Maya Grossman is a Fortune500 leader coach to make her clients leap in their careers and earn high 6 figures. She is best selling author of the book: Invaluable. 2022 she has been Top LinkedIn Influencer and LinkedIn Course creator.
Where are the differences leveling up early vs. pursuing more senior roles?
What does it take to get promoted into senior roles?
What are the most common mistakes?
How much time should I plan to prepare for my next promotion?
And much more…
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Everyone remembers the time in their life when they needed to decide for a career path.
Was it after school, after apprenticeship or after university for you?
Two thriving industries of the last decade have been the Technology sector and the consulting sector.
Miguel joins me in our today’s episode to talk about careers and what different industries have to offer.
Miguel earned his experience at renown consulting firms and specialized in data lake solutions as well as business intelligence
before he became a manager at Capgemini.
Does the tech sector influence the consulting industry or is it the way around?
Where to start your career?
What are the top three skills you need to learn to be a successful in consulting?
How does planning your career look like?
Why you should specialist and afterwards fan out to become a generalist?
And much more…
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Every person has 24 hours a day to spend. Some are taking better care of their time than others. Again 3 hours of Instagram, Tik Tok or Netflix “wasted”. Francisco joins me in our today’s episode to talk about prioritizing and making most of our time. Francisco is a Machine Learning Operations Lead at Adidas, Founder of a web3 startup, Madrid Community lead and Guild Lead for Polygon Technology.
Where to start when it comes to prioritizing. “Becoming a manager is chaos,”
What is the strategy to get out of chaos.
What priorities have to do with expectation setting, objectives, and other people.
How does planning your time weekly, daily, blocking time for uncertainty events look like?
And much more …
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In this episode, we're joined by Sriram Natarajan an engineering lead at Google. Besides his role at Google, he is a passionate coach and mentor. Sriram scaled his team starting with a few directs to a much larger team with even people managers in his reporting line. Speaking of his experience, Sriram shares how to scale your team along the product lifecycle and what skills you need to look out for scaling the team along the way. Additionally, he displays his view on strategic scaling and his core priorities of hiring criteria for new managers joining the team. Finally, Sriram reveals his top factor of success and the top skills to scale as a manager.
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In this episode, we're joined by Vitor Alencar, a tech lead at Taxfix and a prominent speaker and creator in the tech community.
Vitor shares his insights on the importance of community in the tech industry. He explains how participating in tech communities can help leaders stay ahead of the curve by exploring new technologies and ideas, as well as providing opportunities for networking and collaboration. He also highlights the benefits of learning from and sharing knowledge with peers and experts in the field. Additionally, Vitor talks about how being part of a community can provide valuable feedback and perspective on one's work. He also shares tips and strategies on how to get involved in tech communities and make the most of the opportunities they offer. Join us as we dive into the world of technology, leadership and uncover the latest strategies and insights to help you succeed.
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Adam is a leadership coach and founder of Venerable You helping aspiring leaders through C-suite executives become their very best. He’s formally a director in the leadership practice at BTS, a strategy consulting firm headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden where he led a team of client success managers leading initiatives adding up to 30mio€ annually. He’s worked with emerging tech leaders from a variety of the world’s most influential companies including Zendesk, Salesforce, and more.
In this episode, Adam shares his perspective of storytelling and why it is important for leaders to spent time becoming better storytellers. Listen as we explore the many advantages storytelling has over data and information alone, including making your message far more memorable to those we hope to influence (up to 22 times more memorable).
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Andreea is a people manager at Ubisoft . After more than two years in management, she lives and breathes the people management creed at work. In this episode reflects on her earned experiences from being exposed to consulting and the gaming industry and reveals how creed, company culture and values can guide you and benefit your professional development. The focus ranges from setting up value systems dependent on the environment you are in to copying with a different industry and its “sparkliness” that can help being a better leader for your team.
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Tiago and Pit are Regional Sales Managers at Gartner for different countries and regions. After close to two years in management, both live and breathe processes at work. In this episode Tiago and Pit reflect on their earned experiences from being exposed to one of the most process driven tech companies and reveal how process driven career strategies can benefit your professional development. The focus ranges from taking over your own team to processes that can help setting the right expectations with your team.
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Guests:
Tiago and Pit are Regional Sales Managers at Gartner for different countries and regions. Both have been leading teams in the tech space for more than a year now and both have lived abroad. In this episode Tiago and Pit reflect on their experience they earned from their international exposure and how earning experience in other countries and cultures can benefit your professional development.
Podcast topics:
How to get started with international experience. What is the difference between a vacation and living abroad? “When you go abroad, the benefits and honeymoon phase a vacation offers fades out at some point. ”How to make the most of your international experience? How can you experience the abroad experience even on vacation? Focus on your experience and dive into other cultures rather than counting the places you have been to. Companies do not have the luxury to look in one place for talent. Their market is international, so do not shy away from your international experience.
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Gabriela Alina Constantin is the HR Business Partner Lead at Inetum Romina, as an HR strategist & L&D Coordinator, people coordinator, she is dedicated to create an environment of growth and wellbeing. Additionally, Gabriela is committed to build strong partnerships and support People to reach their potential.
Podcast: In our todays podcast we covered the different types of monetary and non-monetary benefits. The different non-monetary benefit pillars HR provides and leaders build upon. The Process of getting to know what benefits your company has to offer for leaders to use for their team and beyond. Who is in charge of making benefits live up to their vision when it comes to Work from anywhere. How to provide benefits as a leader with a tight budget.
Get in touch: Gabriela Alina Constantin | LinkedIn
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Kirill Shmidt is the team lead of product analytics at Citrix, data enthusiast, and author of online educational courses. He has over 8 years of experience in Data Analytics of Marketing, Product , Business Intelligence & Finance in different industries like Medicine, Ad Networks, Software companies, and Fintech. In this episode Kirill highlights: Where do you start when creating a course? What do you learn from creating an educational online course? Which learnings are you able to transition into your leadership role? What skills does enable you to become a learning empoweree?
Get in touch: Kirill Shmidt | LinkedIn
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Lee O’Toole is part of the Talent Scouring team at Salesforce. He is the Senior Sourcing Recruiter at Salesforce and has found IT talents for the last 20 years at numerous big blue chips, some of them are Salesforce, Cisco, HP and SAP to name a few. He operated in Asia and earned significant experience in Singapore and other Asian countries. In the most recent years, he took the decision to serve the European market and is focusing on identifying, investing and nurturing in the IT talent of the future from the UK.
In this episode Lee shares his expert insights on sourcing and the recruiting process. What steps and stakeholders are involved when it comes to hiring and how long the processes can take varying from company to company and country to country. In the podcast he explains the pitfalls of hiring and what can go wrong in the staffing process. He unravels his top priority as a sourcing recruiter to build trust and credibility: knowledge of the team you are hiring for and personal outreach. Further more he reveals that the hiring efforts have increased and that the company efforts become more and more competitive as talent becomes more scarce.
Get in touch with Lee: https://bit.ly/3d9BoEH
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James Fitzgerald manages a Cloud Business Development Team for Oracle at its Dublin office.
Within a few years he has progressed from working as a Business Development Consultant to an Account Manager. More recently, he has been promoted to leading his own team of multinational Technology consultants. The main objectives of the team are to create a dialogue with customers about new business and to guide them on the journey that will equip and transform the way they collect, manage and visualise their data.
Since taking on a management role, James' team has become one of the most successful in Europe in terms of performance against target, frequently being cited by both customers and internal stakeholders for their dedicated and innovative approach. In his spare time James enjoys competing in triathlons, reading and travel.
In this episode, James shares how to make meritocracy work in your favor and where to begin. What it means to be good at your job and how to make sure you are not the only one convinced by your good work. Your career is a marathon not a sprint and with that have an objective in mind to share at the right time. Furthermore, James explains to approach ambitions backwards.
As closing, he explains how he made the right connections, developed his career by his choice of multiple mentors and finding the right timing to open up and talk about his career objective and follow his why constantly. So you can follow his footsteps that bring positive results.
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Dale Payne leads Adobe’s eSignature business (Adobe Sign) across Northern Europe, Middle East & Africa. Dale has worked in the technology space for 11 years (9 years in SaaS) & is an active angel investor.
Our topics have been:
How Awards helped him in his branding and career profile
Holding balance as a manager between IC nurturing and career progression and forming a successful team
The hardest development transition: from IC to People Manager
How patience and reflection helped him after 18months of rejection become a manager
How you can use the 360° Feedback tool to get a better perspective on where to improve
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Sophie Bieber is the Head of Global Employer Branding at SAP. She started her career as a Tech Recruiter and then changed roles within HR as a Project Manager and afterwards a Global Experience Designer in Palo Alto, California. After enjoying a glimpse into the life and workstyle in the US, she returned to the SAP HQ in Walldorf, Germany, where she first took over the role of an Experience Manager and then became the Head of Global Employer Branding. Besides leading the Global Employer Branding team, Sophie is an advocate of Diversity and Inclusion and incorporates this passion into her personal, as well as her team's mission at SAP.
In this episode, Sophie shares her refreshing modern perspectives on the future of Employer Branding, Diversity and Inclusion, and what it means to be a leader in Tech. For her, it is not only about gender but also about diversity of thoughts: transcending country borders, religions, experiences, and age groups; all these and many more aspects give a person a unique voice worth being heard. With this perspective at hand, it becomes apparent that companies' current measurements of success and output need a rework. With Diversity and Inclusion taking more ground, we see an evolution of what companies focus on, rising mindful interactions, utilizing the full potential of our uniqueness, and more. To sum it up, Sophie shares her advice on how to tap into and make diversity and inclusion work for you.
Anastasios Vanis is a People Manager and Finance Solution Engineering Lead for Pfizer Hellas. He is creating, modelling and fine-tuning data analytics solutions, collaborating with different international teams, deriving valuable insights from the data.
In this episode Anastasios highlights his path from consultant to first time people manager. He talks about his why and the reason he pursued to become people manager. He talks about his perspective on team size and agility, his experience on scenario based people management interviews and that failing is part of the learning process. Be mindful of your words, because on the basis of what you choose you shape your team, your culture and even your thought process: #GrowthMindset vs #Fixedmindset. As a continuous battle: Train your switch! We finish our this weeks podcast with how to reflect and take time to think of improvements.
DISCLAIMER: At the time of recording, Anastasios was working as a Manager and Finance Solution Engineering Lead for Pfizer Hellas S.A, Center for Digital Innovation and the content of this podcast does not reflect Pfizer’s positions, value and or perspectives.
Igor Guss is part of Ingram Micro Cloud, a dedicated global business unit to support channel partners’ Cloud adoption globally. After holding various individual contributor roles, such as BDM Cloud or Partner Manager Cloud, he was promoted to take over and expand the newly founded Infrastructure-as-a-Service business unit with responsibility for Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Within the last 2 years, the unit grew to now 15 full time employees showcasing not only the accelerating adoption of the German Cloud market for IaaS services, but also the strong focus Ingram Micro Cloud’s on delivering outstanding value-add to their partners. Next to his love for sports, you can always have a conversation with Igor on US Late Night shows or book recommendations for personal development.
In this episode Igor highlights his milestones to become a people manager. In the podcast he explained the steps to create a team out of blueprints and what sources to leverage to get started with a newly formed team. He unravels his challenges as people manager: retention. Further more he reveals his most important aspect of leadership: trust and transparency. With the two pillars of stability: he shares how to get the buy in and contribution of your team with the right LEVEL of transparency and engagement.
Carson Heady has been with Microsoft for 8 years, across SMC and Enterprise Health & Life Sciences as an AE, Azure SSP and ATU Director. He was recognized as the #1 social seller at Microsoft after generating and influencing in excess of $100M in deals thanks to digital tools, and a winner of Platinum and Gold Club, Champion Award and Impact Award. Carson is best-selling author of Salesman on Fire and the Birth of a Salesman series, a podcast host and professional speaker. He consistently ranks in the top sales gurus and sales authors in the world. He lives in St. Louis, MO, USA with his wife Amy and daughters Madison, Sidonia and Charlotte.
In this episode Carson highlights his path from a sales individual climbing the ranks to now be a director at Microsoft after various individual contributor roles at Microsoft. In the podcast he explained his observations of the two major camps in tech: Sales being one of them. He unravels the misconceptions around sales, why sales skills are important to people managers and how to use the skills for you and your team's advantage. He taps into the realm of: How to manage your career in a fast moving environments, displays his view on career ladders and and what Carson’s next endeavor to conquer is to reach his next level to display how to present your value at work in a meaningful way and articulate the value that you bring.
Sarah Engel is a Senior Managing Consultant at IBM and Community Lead of Trustworthy AI for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. She is creating, modeling and thriving highly productive teams and by doing so help customers especially in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector to drive innovation and change with trust and the power of Data & AI.
In this episode Sarah highlights her path from consultant to a community lead. She talks about the leadership opportunities everyone has and how to get started on your leadership journey without the need for becoming a disciplinary manager. Starting from finding the right mentor and advancing on interest based fellowship. She elaborates further on building a community nurturing company visions step by step and which pitfalls she experienced along the way.
Alexandru Paval is a Senior Automotive Tech Lead and the Company Owner of Nokto Studios, consulting other companies in creating highly productive teams and much more ranging from consulting on embedded Automotive specific to prototyping IOT solutions.
In this episode Alex highlights his path from an Engineer to a functional leader to a full blown people manager.
He talks about the misconceptions of control, strategic influence and contribution as a people manager and how to handle tricky scenarios where one has to make choices sitting in between upper management and your team.
Ferjan Ormeling is FastTrack Area Manager for Germany at Microsoft. His team of Modern Work Architects are part of Microsoft 365 Engineering team and they help German enterprise customers in their transition to the Microsoft productivity cloud, aka M365. He has been working at the company for more than a decade and recently celebrated his 15 year anniversary with us. In this episode Ferjan shares with us that mindfulness comes in many facets. He leads his team located in Germany from the Netherlands. Doing so he shares the differences in geography, culture and how to build a meaningful and personal relationship with every team member regardless of physical distance. Due to Corona he was unable to meet everyone in his team in person, but with restrictions easing now is the time to travel and reflect.
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