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Consultancy and Coaching experience
“In today’s leadership it’s vitally necessary
to combine the hard-core business skills with an authentic
personality that can create a clear vision and specific goals and
guide and engage people toward this”.
This is what Gitte strives to accomplish both in her own role as a
business manager and when she helps business leaders to get to their
optimum leadership level.
Gitte has 20 years of experience in management and leadership and
through these years she has distilled what elements of a leadership
style that can make you successful even when some of the other
elements are missing and what elements that will most likely cause
you to fail no matter what.
As consultant Gitte is often being brought in to either help get a
failed project back on track or to help organisational change
projects with activities to establish an effective start-up of and
to keep momentum during the project.
Based on her experiences with change projects Gitte has created a
manuscript for establishing and running successful change projects
to support this work.
In coaching Gitte is able to sort through all the words and stories
and discern what is really important to get to the next step. With
this and with her inquisitive questions she helps her clients dig
deeper for the underlying causes of issues and non-productive
behaviours. When this is clear it’s been quite easy for the clients
to figure out which changes were needed and which actions they
needed to take to improve their leadership style.
Recently Gitte has designed a Leadership education program for IT
leaders where she is also the head instructor, coached a deputy CEO
to increase his time management and leadership skills before his
coming promotion to CEO, designed and rolled out Change Management
procedures in an IT company and coached six top leaders in a Nordic
company to increase their awareness of the leadership style that
worked best within their teams.
Line management experience
Gitte is the founder and managing
director of Work partners a Coaching and Consultancy company and
works in association with SWAN Consulting. Work partners was founded
in 2001 and employs besides herself also an IT consultant. Before
this Gitte functioned as CEO of an IT consultancy company. Many of
her previous permanent employments have been top project management
with a combination of regular line management duties and project
tasks.
Background
Gitte’s original education is
around IT project management and leadership in general. She has
taken several courses in strategic planning and business economics
and has studied human behaviour and psychological patterns for more
than 30 years. Over the time Gitte has accomplished coaching
educations in the area of team coaching, CTI Life coaching and she
is a certified executive coach from Texas Christian University in
US.
In 2002 she was the conference chair for the 2nd European ICF
Coaching Conference in Spain and 2003 – 2004 she was the President
of NCF (Nordic Coach Federation) which is now the Nordic branch of
ICF (Inter-national Coach Federation). |