Marina Ofner - Training & Coaching

Welcome

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION
FOR MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES OF GLOBAL COMPANIES

As a globally active company, have you come up against the following situations?

  • International assignments that haven’t gone to plan
  • Inadequately managed intercultural teams
  • Internal conflicts during international projects
  • International clients have received presentations that left them underwhelmed and unconvinced?
  • Overseas business relationships that haven’t worked out?
  • Misunderstandings linked to business etiquette and soft skills when dealing with international partners
  • Poorly-performing virtual teams

Then I invite you to delve deeper into the world of intercultural communication with me. As an experienced communications professional, I support my clients in both English and German.

THE TYPICAL AREAS OF APPLICATION FOR INTERCULTURAL TRAINING AND COACHING ARE:

  • The development of strategies to ensure effective integration in the target country and a successful stay during foreign assignments
  • A coaching programme for accompanying partners to settle and integrate into their new home quickly and successfully and make the time abroad a positive experience for the whole family
  • Developmental coaching for managers to help them successfully lead intercultural teams
  • Communication training to sensitise employees to their company’s internal communication processes as well as raise an awareness of specific cross-cultural communication pain points
  • Intercultural presentation training to prepare employees for client presentations and negotiations in foreign markets
  • Business etiquette training to help managers and employees avoid embarrassing and potentially damaging slip ups, especially in an international context
  • Coaching and training in virtual teambuilding to strengthen the global collaboration of team members who may never have seen each other in person before

Intercultural training and coaching are strongly interlinked with personal international experience. This combination of science and experience is what I use to help my clients within the scope of my work.

ABOUT MARINA OFNER

  • Master’s Degree in Business Consulting – University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt
  • Certificate in Coaching – University of Cambridge
  • Interculturally Speaking – University of Oxford
  • NLP Trainer – European Community for Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  • The Science of Happiness of Work – University of California, Berkeley (edX)

“Great communication and on-point soft skills form the basis
of a successful professional performance!”

I OFFER MY TRAINING AND COACHING:

  • Online or on-site
  • For individuals or groups
  • In German or English
  • As coaching, training, workshops or keynote lectures
  • Specialised towards Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Italy and Great Britain
  • Can be in tailored towards different intercultural focuses: global or European

REFERENCES

  • Marina always delivers the best quality trainings and coaching. She has been accompanying our clients relocations mostly to Austria, UK and Switzerland helping them to successfully integrate into the new culture as well as achieve their goals, both business-related and private. She has been a great support as well as a highly professional partner. I highly recommend Marina to anyone who is looking for extraordinary quality and an innovative as well as client oriented approach.

    Petra Boteková, former Managing Director CEE, ICUnet Vienna,
    current CEO & Co-Founder, ReloPilot

    COOPERATIONS-

  • Thank you very much for contributing your time and energy to the Queen’s Young Leaders Programme at the Institute of Continuing Education. We could not run this programme without your input and very much appreciate all of your efforts. As you will know, in addition to their stay at Madingley Hall, the Young Leaders attended Buckingham Palace to collect their awards from Her Majesty the Queen.

    ICE, University of Cambridge

     

    PROJECTS –

  • My wife and I had an intercultural training session with Marina in preparation for our upcoming move to Switzerland. We experienced Marina as a very knowledgeable, emphatic and flexible coach. Due the different views – scientific and subjective – that were presented and discussed, the intercultural training was very helpful for us and will definitely ease the transition to Switzerland both in private as well as in business life.

    F. Hüthmair, Group Buying Director of Aldi Sued

     

    CLIENTS –