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I am a mother of two sons, which has provided me with a wealth of experience in various roles and even more diverse situations.
In my professional life, I have worked at HR leadership position in IBM, Project Coordinator in an EU career guidance project, and for the last 3 years I have been with Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) in Vienna, where I was responsible for the trainings of nearly 5,000 IT employees across the entire RBI group.
For over 15 years, I have found my greatest passion as a soft skills trainer, coach, mentor, facilitator. And in recent years I took a step in consulting work with couples and families.
In my work with couples, but often also with groups, I use the systemic, transformational model of Virginia Satir and Solution-Focused coaching. I am constantly learning, as it brings me joy.
My clients come from various fields and social backgrounds – from individuals dealing with personal issues to teams within corporations. Since 2012, I have been living in Vienna, but I regularly travel to meet clients in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Austria.
ALKP (Association of Lecturers and Career Advisors)
PWN (Professional Women Network)
IVS (Virginia Satir Institute)
Training in therapy and counselling for couples and families in Transformational Systemic Therapy according to Satir (IVS)
Assistant in 2-year experiential trainings (IVS)
Authentic Leadership - basic and advanced (LeadIN)
Agile Learning Coach (Quality Minds)
Professional Integrative Coach (ICF)
Volunteer Mentor in the Mentoring Programme for Women (PWN Vienna)
Sandplaying – projective technique for working with individuals and groups (Centre for Family and Relationship Bonding)
2-year experiential training (Virginia Satir Institute), Team Coaching (Erickson College), NLP for Coaches (Devon School of NLP), Systemic Management and Coaching, Project Management (GPP, IPMA), Biofeedback (Neurological and Psychological Support through Biofeedback and HRV, Prague)
Tailor-made base on your requirements
Examples of my topics
You will learn how empathy works, how we as human beings benefit from it and how it relates to work productivity and business success
You will recognise 3 types of empathy in yourself and others
You will embrace coaching as a tool for developing people you care about, including yourself
In coaching, I am constantly inspired, amused and fascinated by how many gifts, possibilities and strengths each of my clients has and how many different perspectives there are on a situation.
Sometimes in a conversation I feel like I am reading a book. That is when I am part of the story that flows in our conversation and I can contribute to its richness.
In a business environment, the coaching approach has proven to be effective in maintaining long-term employee motivation, taking responsibility for assigned tasks, and strengthening independence and courage to bring their own solutions and participate in creating strategies and planning tasks.
Managerial or work tasks, attitudes, and handling situations with colleagues or subordinates naturally intersect with personal attitudes and private life, which is why coaching is a very open and complex process for me, the essence of which is respect and trust.
The challenge in every conversation is to be as close as possible to the "place" where the client needs me.
An important aspect of coaching is to help the client discover himself in each topic, to strengthen the ability to accept his human (subjectively perceived) successes as well as failures, to explore with him the decisions he has made and needs to make, and to seek, expand and deepen his possibilities and resources to decide again and possibly differently.
Decision-making is often a big topic for clients, since it is decisions that make us who we are.
The goal and key to the success of the entire process is to strengthen confidence in one's own ability to handle the situation or leave it... and most importantly, in the fact that a solution exists.
I care about my clients recognizing not only their potential, but also their own responsibility for their decisions. So that they understand that they have an impact on their surroundings and the change they make will affect the system in which they operate.
We also explore what the change will bring and whether this desired state is really what they want. Many times we go back to the beginning and defining what they actually want is often the most serious and difficult part of the coaching process.
I have many of them, some are part of my training, some have literally become “humanized”, but now two have come to mind that I sometimes remind myself of. They are about allowing myself to perceive a situation completely differently, that it is normal to perceive the same thing differently than the rest of the world, and at the same time, that my perception is in my hands and I can change it.
“Everything wonderful that has happened in this world was first born in someone’s imagination.”
Astrid Lindgren (writer)
"I had the honor of attending a two-day workshop with Alena on the topic of "Truly Effective Coaching". We were in a super small group of participants, which allowed for greater privacy and thus greater openness and sensitivity to the topics. I intentionally write workshop and not training, because the ratio of the practical part was large. I had the chance to immediately apply the presented things in the role of both coach and coachee. I consider the subsequent individual coaching hours to be the greatest benefit. The trust in Alena gained during the workshop helped me go deeper. During the sessions, she showed me how to understand where I had gotten to and we practiced techniques for discovering my own resources and moving forward. That's what I needed. Thank you"
"Our corporation with Mrs. Vagnerova is very pleasant and efficient. We have conducted very effective team working and individual session after the personality test. During the process the whole team really did focus on working together and improve our cooperation among each other and seek for the solution how to conquer the difficulties. In the end that the program from Mrs. Vagnerova is definitely recommended for future team building and we are also very looking forwards to work and play with her team again!"
"Alena is always a great listener. She is always present in coaching, she perceives important moments and turns in the discussion... and then she asks a question that is completely clear and yet chilling. I always experience Ahaaaa moments during our conversations and thanks to our conversations I ask myself questions that I would not have otherwise asked and see things from a different perspective."
