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EY Academy of Business Polska
Facilitator
Facilitating a course on goal setting using the OKR methodology
Anna Kowalska
Start-up Consultant, OKRs coach, ex-Google
Wrocław, Poland
Usually responds in 21 hour
Free
Price per hour
30 min
Time Blocks Available
5.00
34 reviews / 43 sessions
Mon
23
Next availability
in your time zone (Athens)
Bio
I'm a trainer, facilitator and consultant working with start-ups as a mentor in pre-acceleration and acceleration programs. For over 13 years I've worked at Google as L&D Program Manager. I have vast experience in learning programs design, delivery and evaluation. I'm supporting start-up with topics such as OKRs coaching, accountability, building great team, feedback giving, continuous and social learning and others within people domain. I love to learn myself my recent interest are Improv Skills and Positive Psychology. You can see my full profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-kowalska-b9026511b/
Expertise
Building a team
I have 13 years experience in Learning and Development at Google and part of my job I was helping different teams to become more efficient through increasing psychological safety, increasing accountability and dependability, working with their strengths and weakness
Mindset coaching
I have a Psychology degree and recently I've started specialising in Positive Psychology at Penn University. Moreover, I have coaching and mentorship experience. I can share some tips and techniques to help overcome setbacks, deal with failure, create a future vision and sense of mastery over time.
Remote work
I have worked remotely myself for over 10 years. I managed a group of 50 trainers from a remote location. I deliver coach/train people in a remote settings. I can share my experiences, tips and ideas on how to make that work more efficient: how to organise meetings, keep teams connected, deliver trainings and create opportunities for knowledge transfer.
Venting frustration
I am always happy to hear and to help to coach through some difficult times. I have experience as a mentor and coach. I can share some tips and tricks from my experience that can help to go through harder times.
Toolkit
Google Ads
Basic tips for search and content ads - introductory concept for those who start CTR, CPA, CPC ect. How to choose your keywords for search, how Google trends can be helpful
Industries
Education
Serving as a mentor and trainer for startups in various domains as goal setting, building effective teams, continuous learning process, and personal coaching for founders.
Experience
Work as an advisor, mentor, facilitator and trainer supporting companies in People domain. Help to create solutions that include various actions and activities that allow to introduce desired change on company, leader, team and individual level. With topics including company culture (values, norms and behaviours), OKRs building, creating efficient and happy teams, giving and receiving feedback, building learning organisation, fostering collaboration and dealing with failure. Huge believer in utilising your strengths and talents - Discovery Insights. I work with Google for Start-up with multiple acceleration or pre-acceleration program.
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Program management and process excellence - Responsible for smooth delivery of global cross-functional onboarding course for commercial side of company - avg. 40 session per quarter in 5 locations (Europe, Asia and US) with weekly or bi-weekly frequency, reaching approx. 3100 new starters yearly, resource allocation and capacity planning across regions. - Ensured high quality of training experience - 96% fav. score for a course - Delivery against set learning objectives and ensure course quality - all scores in high 90% range + increase quarter to quarter - Set up evaluations methods for a course (surveys, pre-post testing; quarterly focus groups) - Ran various experiments with content - with the right measurement system in place to decide on implementation. People management - Managed a pool of internal trainers - approx. 50 trainers globally - recruiting, coaching, maintaining high quality of performance, monitoring for low performers and talents, recognition and evaluation, community building and development initiatives - Applied various skill development and community building initiatives that led to 8% yearly performance increase -to 98% % fav score for managed facilitators - Mentoring - additionally to managed trainers - career mentor for 5 junior employees over time. - Involved in teams development - - provided number of trainings and solutions to develop teams in local Wroclaw office Project management - Technology related projects: led initiative to improve tools and technology solutions availability - work with technology and systems teams to make improvements, improve comms, updates and feedback loop; provide Business requirements for new tools development ); migration plan for system updates and tool depreciation -Prepared global training transition strategy for new customer contact platform launch - coordinated with engineers and project managers on business side Rewards Team Player award 48 peer to peer bonus recognitionsProgram management and pro
Project management and process excellence - Led efforts to globalize the customer service onboarding curriculum while maintaining local training running - mapped content and its match to role and responsibilities in regions for job readiness, negotiated deliverables in region, balanced local vs. global needs, content development, logistics, comms with a key stakeholders - Worked directly with high management team -reviews for local management teams, then global stakeholders including reviews for regional directors and VPs Role Specific Knowledge and Industry Knowledge - Curriculum and program manager for various onboarding courses regionally and then globally - that included among other content creation and maintenance in cooperation with various SMEs - Responsible for industry trainings covering advertising landscape - Passed Google Certified Program exams Facilitation and presentation and coaching skills - 650+ training hours: avg. 96% fav. score - including product and application trainings; soft-skills content (i.e. Presentation skills); train the trainer sessions; team development sessions. E-learning creation - created e-learning with Camtasia and Adobe Presenter
- Consulted Small and Medium Business advertisers via different channels .Maintained a high quality rating (Exceed Expectations) for all customer interactions - Co-created, delivered and supported program for Wroclaw students for Technical and Economic University for over 3 years - including delivery of live -sessions, creating e-learnings and online resources, managing course forum and exam. - Worked as an adjunct trainer to help onboard new starters in Wroclaw office
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Junior Project Manager- Conducted qualitative market research projects concerning various issues - product test, packaging test, brand image, advertising tests (story boards, animatics, commercials), category perception, purchase intent, ethnographic consumers research for many international companies including Danone, P&G, Carlsberg, Novartis, Tetra Pak, Glaxo Smith Kline, T-Mobile (PTC) - Prepared various research materials (offers, guidelines, recruitment documents ect.), dealt with client’s enquires on the daily basis, moderated interviews, analyzed results and prepared reports for client based on focus groups interviews, presented main findings to the client during the meetings.
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Segment Analyst (Internship)-In charge of profiling of Life Science Segment and Bio-Tech Clusters in Europe. - Responsible for identifying needs and expectations of the potential clients, up-dating the data base of the clients, analyzing data (sales force questionnaires, sales reports, internet websites) preparing a presentation summing up the research project.