Gregor Killesreiter
ABEL Österreich, Managing Director
"At my first top management seminar, which I attended more or less accidentally in Illmitz in 1999, ARGO left a positive impression on me. This year, when we were looking for a competent partner in the field of the training of employees, the management of ABEL found ARGO’s concept convincingly structured. This motivated us to ask ARGO to be our partner in this series of seminars, which is expected to run for 18 months or more."
Dr. MMAG. Gerald Benesch
AGES Österreichische Agentur für Gesundheit und Ernährungssicherheit GmbH,
Head of Legal and Insurance Department
“For me ARGO stands for goal orientation, purpose, sensitivity and competence in delicate personnel matters and in this context for excellent and effective solutions.”
Vst.Dir. Dr. Herbert Kittinger/ Vst.Dir. Rolf Krappen
ARAG Rechtschutz
"They are a small and agile team with a high level of professionalism and social and expert competence. They enjoy a high degree of acceptance by our staff and are one of the few companies where our employees take seminars out of their own free will."
Walter Hechenberger
Austrian Technik, Department Manager
"What we appreciate about ARGO is their high level of competence, their pro-active approach to their work and the excellent qualification of the entire team. Another very positive aspect is that when their "in-house know-how" is not 100% sufficient, they always get professional support from outside sources".
Ing. Konstantin Essler
Austrian Technik Bratislava s.r.o., Managing Director
“I have always experienced the entire ARGO team as very competent, flexible and showing high customer orientation; I have always been particularly impressed with the sensitivity and ability to assess organizational cultures and to identify development potentials, which are truly elaborated for the specific situation: no “one-size-fits-all” approach, but competent and individual analysis of an organization´s present state and active evaluation of development potentials together with the client, prioritisation and implementation of development potentials in a really professional and co-operative way.”
BAWAG
Improved selling skills and sales orientation, along with an increase in cross-selling, are quantifiable measures of success.
Baxter BioScience
A change in thinking - from hierarchy to process - has led to achieving positive results from a successful reorganization.
Johanna Stefan
DONAU Versicherung AG, Member of the Board
"Together with ARGO, we have implemented within our sales in DONAU a leadership project, in which we work on our self-awareness and on our behaviours towards the outside. In this project I have experienced ARGO as a talented and business-oriented partner, who has absorbed the spirit and culture of our company in a short time and has been able to incorporate these into the workshops."
Wolf-Dieter Bader
DONAU Versicherung AG, State Director Tyrol
“In my function as head of the State Directorate of the Tyrol I was also entrusted with the question of the quality and development of our employees in the course of an extensive reorganization. In this context I was predominantly looking for new ways of leadership and motivation. I also felt it was very important to induce our employees to endorse the change process. Guiding and moderating this challenge of group dynamics was defined as the core of the contribution of ARGO.
Together we started by successfully phasing in an increase in productivity of our sales force and creating new perspectives for the colleagues in the administration through Change Management. Resulting from this, and complemented with conflict management units and finally SIZE modules, it was possible to implement an optimum structure. I have experienced ARGO as an innovative partner with a strong focus on developing solutions, who will continue working with me on the implementation of my management responsibilities. I would particularly like to emphasise that the planning processes of the individual units were optimally aligned with my vision. The consulting services provided prior to implementation regularly brought to light new aspects which provide valuable support in the process of goal identification.”
Peter Karasek
Forstinger, Managing Director
"After a briefing involving five renowned Personnel Development Agencies, we chose ARGO!"
Mag. Martin Weber
FRANZ HAAS Waffel- und Keksanalange-Industrie GmbH,
Head of Human Resources HAAS-Unternehmensgruppe
“I hold the ARGO team in high regard because of its comprehensive competence in all matters of personnel development and the individual solutions it offers. I would like to emphasise their respectful and focused interaction with very diverse personalities in the international context. We are very pleased with our co-operation with ARGO so far and already look forward to the next steps we will realise together!”
FRANZ HAAS Waffel- und Keksanlagen-Industrie GmbH
The broadening of leadership competencies and an understanding of leadership across the hierarchy is supporting the achievement of the corporate strategy.
HYPO-BANK BURGENLAND AG
An integrated package of empowerment measures has enhanced individual and team competencies and led to both coordinated marketing efforts and increased sales.
Claudia Dwulit
Kapsch AG, Personnel and Organization Development
"They respect the participants’ needs and tune in to their emotions and thoughts. Good cooperation in the planning phase."
Marcus Izmir
mii – marcus izmir informationsmanagement GmbH, CEO,
"I founded mii as a one-man-show in 1986 with the idea of supporting enterprises in different fields and of different sizes in making use of future-oriented technologies in a way that will increase their productivity.
One of my more complicated learning processes was how to handle the different views and methods of my employees in a sensible fashion.
It has always been even more difficult to set individual staff members on the right path towards productive interaction with their colleagues.
After 20 years in business, our team now comprises about 60 people. We would not have been able to handle the transition from 40 to 40+ in such a constructive and positive manner without ARGO’s support.
ARGO knows how to stimulate the basic qualities of individual staff members in a way that not only maintains the harmony inside the team, which is important to me personally, but even manages to develop this harmony further."
DI. Gottfried Joham
Mondi Frantschach GmbH, Managing Director
“With ARGO we have a partner capable of comprehending an organization quickly. Clear visions, missions and especially actions are implemented while at the same time the necessary leadership and social competence are developed.“
Mag. Andreas Wolf
Murexin AG, Head of the Management Board
“What both I and our company share with ARGO is an international orientation and mindset. This became particularly apparent in our leadership project and has been implemented in a very professional manner.”
Dr. Stephan Huxold
New Radio Tower GmbH, Mülheim (D), CEO
"For the second time since 1996, I have the opportunity to rely on the ARGOnauts’ support in a startup situation. In the case of the New Radio Tower Company, the basic goal is to bring a group of highly specialized individuals with years of experience in the field of consultative work together in dedicating themselves to a new business concept based on a strong focus on the customers’ needs. This involves support for complex processes highly reminiscent of the kind that emerge in the context of a takeover, a task which ARGO handles with a skill made possible by many years of experience. And for me personally, our joint work is always a lot of fun and keeps providing me with new ideas."
Niedermeyer GmbH
Learning and development focused on high potentials have clearly impacted both leadership performance and sales results.
Mag. Christiane Wenckheim
Ottakringer Brauerei, Managing Director
"In cooperation with us, ARGO has been successful in communicating the concept of „Ottakringer Freshness“ to every one of our employees and in bringing this slogan to life. Thank you!"
Prok. Gerhard Kaltenhofer
Raiffeisenlandesbank Kärnten, Manager of Education
"We collaborate with ARGO in the hope that the “horsepower” generated by them in their seminars can be brought on the road, so our Bank’s employees will be equally successful in the long term!"
Mag. Regina Nemeth
Raiffeisen Versicherung, Training Manager
"ARGO’s competence has come over well. They have no ready-made concepts but develop their concepts in cooperation with the customer!"
Henning E. Jensen, MBA
RHI AG, CEO
"ARGO enthusiastically accompanied us on our Global Leadership Team Meeting, and they put together a very good program, one that combined teamwork and competitive spirit with a fun factor. Our employees were thrilled."
Michael Nefischer
Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG, Deputy Director
"We appreciate ARGO as a long-term partner in various projects. As part of our talent management program, both the high-potentials assessment center and the measures for personal development were jointly developed and implemented. In this project, ARGO has always addressed both the company's specific demands and the individual needs of the participants."
Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG
Top executives at Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich AG are supported by a customized talent management program and a personal development department. With a strategy-oriented potential assessment center and two years of funding per participant, each leader receives tailored development.
Heinz Kessler
Raiffeisenlandesbank Vorarlberg, Manager of Basic and Advanced Training
"A high level of expert competence, very strong in the field of relationships, and well trained in psychology. They get the best course assessments from our employees. For the participants, it is a great joy to work with them as trainers, and so they look forward to having even more seminars provided by ARGO."
Frank Dicker
Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG, Executive Director
“For us integrative personnel development plays a key role in achieving strategic corporate objectives. For our personnel development this translates into both qualifying and motivating our employees for present and future tasks so that every individual can contribute more value in his or her function. In this endeavour we are supported by ARGO as competent partner especially in connection with Cultural Change.”
Prok. Mag. Markus Petz
Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG, Personnel Manager
"What I appreciate about the ARGOnauts are the clarity with which they speak when they agree or disagree with some point; the respectful way they deal with people’s needs in the processes they accompany; and their courage in giving critical feedback, even if it appears to be unfavorable for ARGO initially."
Hans Roth
Saubermacher Dienstleistungs AG, Board of Directors, CEO
"I feel that …
- they have a lot of experience with merging processes
- they communicate well with people
- their activities are down-to-earth
- they work in a goal-directed fashion
- they practice open communication, even with the proprietors or the board of directors, and also give critical feedback"
Mag. Elmar Wieland
SCHENKER & CO AG , Spokesman of the Board of Directors
"We value ARGO as a competent, dedicated and flexible partner. Our collaboration with the ARGOnauts has produced very positive results, not only in the field of staff training but also in the updating of our Vision & Mission concepts and in monitoring their realization."
Dr. Detlef Trefzger
SCHENKER & CO AG, Board Director
"For SCHENKER’s South East European locations, ARGO has become an important sparring partner and trainer in the field of HRM over the last few years. In the development and realization of a new Management Development Program for our young executives in Austria and South East Europe in the context of our in-house training project ("Schenker Academy"), we have been excellently supported by the ARGOnauts.
Moreover, the field of Project Management in our South European locations has been professionalized and standardized by their first-class consultant. Some elements of HRM (such as the Trend Barometer, Talks with Employees, Basic Principles of Leadership) have been revived or conceptually revised and re-launched with ARGO’s assistance. The revision of our company’s Vision / Mission concept has been monitored and supervised by them.
We have always come to know ARGO as professional, critical and innovative partners who are not only able to motivate Schenker’s employees during their training sessions, but have also managed to pass on their knowledge and concepts to our employees and our organization with lasting effect."
Walter Herzog
Sonax, Managing Director
"The Sonax Company’s Guiding Concept states that our employees are our most important ressource. That is why Sonax invests a lot in this ressource, in order to be able to make full use of it. With the help of ARGO, we have been very successful in this respect, because they speak the language of our employees and are able to win their trust rapidly!"
Österreichische Sparkassenakademie
Since 2006, a series of much-sought after leadership seminard, which include a project assignment and diploma, have been running. These highly successful seminars have resulted in managers forming a strong network across the Sparkasse Group.
Ing. Mag. Reinhard Hager
Stuart Management Consulting GmbH, Partner of Spencer
"For us, ARGO is a combination of profound expert knowledge and the commitment of a company where the owners themselves are actively involved in its customer-oriented work."
Christian Walzel
T-Mobile Austria GmbH, Vice President Engineering & CND
“For me ARGO is a long-standing and true partner in personnel development who helps me focus on the right and necessary issues. ARGO has already supported me throughout various changes in my professional life. Every time ARGO proved to be the reliable and competent partner who helped me find the right way.”
Franz Grohs
T-Systems Austria, Managing Director
”ARGO has supported us in an excellent fashion in creating a Vision/Mission/Guiding Concept during a period of post-merger integration and has promoted the integration process with exceptional delicacy and yet with long-term effect. As a consequence, we have become convinced of ARGO’s capacity in these matters and have decided to use ARGO’s services in the fields of the training and assessment of executives as well as the selection and counseling of our Sales Trainees.
In a short time, ARGO has turned from an outside service provider into a respected and highly regarded partner at all levels of management.“
Rudolf Marchl
T-Systems Austria, Director of Sales Organization
”ARGO has made it possible for us to replace the training activities of our Sales Department, which had been rather spotty before, with a comprehensive modular program for the training of our sales staff. Such an enterprise requires professionalism, flexibility and trustworthiness, and in this respect we have found the ARGOnauts to be exactly the right kind of associates, as we had already found them to be in the development of our company’s Guiding Concept.“
Christian Rumpler
Tyrolean Airways, Chief of Personnel Development
"Above all, the ARGOnauts know how to put themselves in the position of an organization and its employees. That is why ARGO is for us a partner that our leading executives simply like to work with!"
Johannes Schestauber, MSc
UniCredit Bank Austria AG, Head of Qualification & Development
“For me ARGO is the ideal partner for seeing through comprehensive measures of organizational development. ARGO designs the change architecture in a tailor-made way characterized by high professional and social competence, and implements it together with project owners and executives showing a deep understanding for emotional impacts. After we realised a previous project together with Annie McKee, we were surprised and thoroughly convinced by the vast know-how that ARGO possesses in the field of Emotional Intelligence (Annie McKee has co-authored the book of the same title!).”
Gerlinde Gebhart
Wagon-Lits Internationale Schlafwagen AG, Manager of On-Board Service
"At a training seminar, one of our employees met Mrs. Plambeck of ARGO. As we were looking for new trainers at the time, we invited her to a preliminary interview. In this interview, she was convincing in every respect – so our decision was quickly taken: we would conduct the seminars we were planning with the assistance of ARGO!"