At the end of December, 2015 Brücke GmbH Company had been organizing an educational business tour to Frankfurt for the representatives of the leading Banks in Azerbaijan. One of the most remarkable and was the workshop “New business generation. How to become a winner in a crisis” by Ali Engin.
Due to the up-to-dateness of the topic the team of Brücke GmbH company made a decision to update the workshop with the additional fascinating activities that will be held in Odessa, Ukraine.
Below we would like to present the interview of Mr. Ali Engin – the speaker, certified business coach and commando officer with more than 5 year experience in training a top management of the leading companies in Turkey and Azerbaijan and more than 25 year experience, serving the Special Forces Units of Turkey and NATO.
– In Frankfurt you presented your original workshop: “New business generation & how to become a winner in crisis”. Could you please share your vision on how new generation should look like?
– A new business generation needs to be elaborated as a tool by every business individual to invent different and original approaches on business making. Flexibility in thinking, visualization of future independently and creativity at every level of generation process are key terms on the success of new modeling.
Unfortunately, biases may hinder possible developments and stop the access to the new world of business models. Previous successes may be seen as a comfort zone which are likely to keep mind sets with in old customs and hamper situational awareness.
On the other hand, flexible and future minded business people will find ways to reach new looks in accordance with situational requirements in sectors. New generation will sooner or later have acceptance by new and open minded business tailors as well as academics.
– A big part of your training was dedicated to the economic crisis and how to overcome it. What is your personal perception to the crisis? How do you achieve success in a challenging time?
– Crisis is kind unexpected warriors who come out through dense fog. If we don’t see or predict the other side of fog and lack of courage to go in will eventually makes us stop and wait for our unforeseen fortune with no progress. Like those warriors, crisis also comes from different directions without any warning.
However, developing good understanding of our organization’s situational business environment definitely helps us to shape stronger and more competitive new business models in crisis. Key word is that keeping awareness alive. That provides new opportunities to be used as a chance and adaptation to external forces.
– What do you think what topics are of a vital importance for the Top management of the
Azerbaijan companies?
- I may divide topics into four area of individual & institutional performance development.
- Strategically management and planning
- Leadership development
- Individual model development
- Team building and crew resource management
Those areas will definitely provide broaden perspective and insight to top management leaders on new business developments as well as ongoing business relations and engagements.
– In relation to the aforementioned, what new experience can you share with them?
– From the perspective of new global business environment, leaders should keep their situational awareness alive in order to align their operational decision making processes in the light of strategic approaches. That requires flexibility and speed on team resource management system as well as capability management.
I would like to share my following experiences that I highlighted below with leaders.
- Instant decision making & team resource management
- Leadership as coaching
- Storytelling and new creative approaches on business presentations
- İnnovation and Business generations
- Value preposition and customer analysis
- Strategically capability development management
– In relation to the aforementioned, what new experience can you share with them?
– From the perspective of new global business environment, leaders should keep their situational awareness alive in order to align their operational decision making processes in the light of strategic approaches. That requires flexibility and speed on team resource management system as well as capability management.
I would like to share my following experiences that I highlighted below with leaders.
- Instant decision making & team resource management
- Leadership as coaching
- Storytelling and new creative approaches on business presentations
- İnnovation and Business generations
- Value preposition and customer analysis
- Strategically capability development management
– Galore of companies cut their expenses almost in all spheres. What do you think are the main business tasks that company should financially support in any times?
Main business tasks may be classified in three core areas. Those are customer relations management, product innovation & research, infrastructure management. Besides those core business, every company should feed himself in personal performance development align with company next business models.
Trainer & Coach Resume:
ALİ ENGİN (Founder – Trainer – Professional Executive Coach ACC/ATC – Executive Management Consultant).
Ali Engin was born in 1963 in İzmir. He graduated from Army War Academy in 1984 with the rank of Lieutenant and certified as an Engineer on Electric & Electronic field. He had served in Commando and Special Forces Units for 25 years and participated in international missions at NATO for 5 years.
He was qualified as a commando officer in 1986, had continuously participated in commando small unit leadership trainings both in Turkey and overseas. He participated in staff college education in 1997 through 1999 and graduated as a staff officer in 1999. He continued his academic development at Armed Forces Strategy College and NATO Defense College between years 2000-2002.
He was assigned to the mission as a military advisor to CJTF-7 commander in chief in Iraq during allied operations in 2003. He was assigned to NATO as Sub-Division Coordinator responsible for defense planning integration among allied countries in NATO Allied Transformation Command. During that mission he had a chance to work on organizing capability management systems as well as change management and building integrated change teams. After completing his duty as a deputy commander of Commando Brigade in Turkey between years of 2007-2009 he was assigned as a military advisor to Chief of staff and MOD of Kosovo. He completed his academic process in National Security Academy in 2011 and retired from the army in March 2011 voluntarily.
He continued his career by joining into training and education sector right after his resign. He had worked as a training specialist and executive management consultant at Private Training & Management Development Company for 4 years. He delivered special trainings on change management, leadership development, and performance team buildings, negotiations at institutional and individual levels.
He completed his professional coaching training and graduated from ADLER Europe coaching school in 2004. Afterwards he has been certified as an ACC (Associated Certified Coach) by ICF (International Coaching Federation) He has initiated his executive coaching sessions exclusively dedicated for senior managers.
In 2005 and founded his trades mark namely PATHFINDER Training & Coaching Trade Inc. He has started a new approach in training field and sector by integrating coaching, training and live experimentations trio together. He begun to use business simulations and orienteering sport and games adapted in scenarios during individual awareness, team building, leadership development, capability management & organizational development trainings. He also still uses his coaching skills on individual skill & performance coaching, executive coaching and team coaching.
He is a member of International Coaching federation, NATO Ancient Organization, Turkish Executive
The detailed information about the upcoming business training, organized by Brücke GmbH company you can find on the website of the event:
http://aliengin2016.bruecke-gmbh.de/webstats/aliengin2016/en/
