History
Summary of major undertaken projects
Summary of major undertaken projects
Business Coaching | Coaching sessions to beneficiaries of“ Craft your Business” & “Odyssey Incubation” entreprenaurship programs
Negotiation workshop | Another successful session took place at 7th and 8th of May, via Zoom platform for University of Cyprus personnel. Despite of the limitations in digital training approach, all participants showed great interest and enthusiasm, making once more this seminar “talk of the town”.
Sales & Marketing workshop
Business topics presentation about the most significant elements of a business plan, like break-even point, the importance of communication in sales, objections handling and the value of customer experience. All participants had the chance to engage in a constructive conversation in order to be helped and develop their own sales strategy based on the latest market trends.
Negotiation Skills 2nd workshop | 13-14 October, Cyprus University (Nicosia)
Middle managers’ development 3rd workshop | 15-16 October, Cyprus University (Nicosia)
Business optimization project, via companies restructuring, technological equipment upgrade, applications development and processes update, to D. Sarantopoulos Insurance Group.
The extraordinary program of Praksis BCC, sponsored by CITI FOUNDATION, continued for two more periods (13th & 14th ). Twenty-four startup and recently established companies took advantage from consulting services and business coaching by VK & ASSOCIATES, in terms of design, develop and apply their tailor made business plan.
Team Management workshop | The 2nd workshop took place in Cyprus, between 4-5 of March, to Middle Managers who were in charge of small teams (or were going to become in the near future), at the premises of Cyprus University. Participants were trained at the modules of: Communication, Tasks Delegation, Staff Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, Change Management and Time Management, applying audio-visual tools and real time tests for theory understanding, based on internet cloud applications.
Business Planning project for the Social Cooperative Enterprise named “Black Light”, an enterprise that is consisted of people with blindness. Black Light team members, perform experience based educational activities and workshops that:
- help other people understand and feel how it looks like to have lost vision capability, in terms of social and professional aspects of life
- enhance communication, leadership, team building and empathy skills among people who work for a company
- revealing simple tips for servicing blind customers at sales points more effectively, thus increase revenue
Negotiations seminar | Participants had the chance to deepen on the extremely useful modules of: distributive vs integrative negotiation, zone of possible agreement, Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement, Group negotiations, Game Theory in negotiation, negotiator styles etc. plus hints & tips for adapting the game to their interests.
Sales & negotiation techniques seminar to the beneficiaries of NGO PRAKSIS Business Coaching Center (12th cycle) under the sponsorship of Citi Foundation and Oriflame Hellas.
Middle managers’ development workshop | The workshop took place in Cyprus, between 19-20 of November . Participants were trained at the modules of: Communication, Tasks Delegation, Staff Motivation, Emotional Intelligence, Change Management and Time Management, applying audio-visual tools and real time tests.
Training and certification process for becoming Certified Mentor to the program of “Early Warning for businesses and Entrepreneurs” 2nd Chance European Network”, Early Warning Europe, funded by the European Initiative COSME with the participation of fifteen bodies (Ministries, Regions, Chambers, Social Partners and Non-Profit Organizations), from seven (7) countries (DENMARK, GERMANY, BELGIUM, GREECE, ITALY, SPAIN, POLAND) and aims to help close the gap by providing specialized assistance to businesses for:
- restructuring in a timely manner to preserve jobs and maintain their value, and
- support entrepreneurs who fail to have a “second chance”.
Additional information: https://www.earlywarningeurope.eu/
The Sales Workshop took place at the premises of American Farm School in Thessaloniki and at the hotel Miramare in Eretria, to Agronomists and the Management Team of LYDA S.A. The team worked on interactive tasks, applying sales and negotiation techniques that were presented in theory session.
Negotiation Skills workshop | Ιt took place in Cyprus, between 27-28 of May, at the facilities of Cyprus University (Nicosia) for the benefit of campus staff. Participants, through interactive tasks and audio visual usage, managed to make a deep dive to the main negotiation styles & techniques, discover basic tips and define their personal style as negotiators, something that gave them the chance to make appropriate adjustments in the future, so that adapt and correspond more efficiently to the demands of each case.
Finance for non-financial seminar execution, to the beneficiaries of of NGO PRAKSIS Business Coaching Center (11th cycle) under the sponsorship of Citi Foundation and Oriflame Hellas.
Workshop implementation for the registered members of Praksis Employability program, describing the energy market in Greece and the existing business opportunities for electricity and natural gas sales consultants.
Business agreement with Inagros, a Private Company which activates at smart farming system applications, by undertaking the role of COO and part of capital equity.
Mutual agreement with Vodafone Hellas, for terminating the management of Cyta Shop Maroussi, after 7 years of operations with significant results on customer experience aspects and corporate sales growth.
Collaboration agreement with PPP company (Process People Purpose) as affiliate partner, for staff training and developing the retail market in Greece.
Sales & communication techniques seminar to the beneficiaries of NGO PRAKSIS Business Coaching Center (10th cycle) under the sponsorship of Citi Foundation and Oriflame Hellas.