On November 13, 2019, the 15^th HR People Empowerment Forum was conducted at Ktima Ariadni, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Richard Boyatzis, who presented his last book and work titled “Coaching with Compassion” (instead of Coaching with Compliance).  Xenia Kourtoglou of Focus Bari was a guest speaker at the conference, and presented the results of the first B2B Study in Greece regarding Coaching.  Coaching is a growing function among Greek and multinational organizations, aiming a supporting teams in change management, as well as personal and professional goals achievement.  Results indicated that Coaching, although well known as a term, still requires a lot of education as to its function, procedures, prerequisites and benefits, in order to expand further with success.

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Xenia Kourtoglou Founder of Focus Bari Keynote Speaker at the Annual Social Media World

The Annual SOcial Media & e-business world  conference, exhibition and workshops took place at the Divani Caravel Hotel with huge success on September 27, 2019 and Xenia Kourtoglou of Focus Bari was invited as a keynote speaker to present social media through the eyes and the hearts of Greek citizens.  Xenia presented in detail the puzzle of generations in the Greek society, the presence, role and relationship of Greeks with the social media, and the implications they have in people's daily life, in society and in commercial communication of organizations and brands.

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Xenia Kourtoglou, keynote Speaker at YUBOTO BUSINESS MESSAGING CONFERENCE

The first  Business Messaging Conference organized by YUBOTO took place at the beautiful Eleon Loft in Athens, on Friday, September 20, 2019. The conference focused on the rapid growth of the messaging market, as more messaging platforms are expanded globally, and messaging is rapidly becoming one of the main brand campaign vehicles.Guest speakers touched a variety of related subjects, ranging from technology to app creation,while Xenia Kourtoglou focused on the subject of “Installing a 360 Feedback Culture” in the organization.  Xenia explained why constructive feedback is important, how one should distinguish constructive feedback from criticism and evaluation, and how to give and receive feedback in order to be constructive,stressing that feedback is a strong characteristic of a growth mindset.

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Xenia Kourtoglou as a keynote speaker at Linkage Summer Session with Mike Abrashoff

Xenia Kourtoglou was invited as a keynote speaker at the Linkage Summer Session on Leadership, with Mike Abrashoff—an outstanding, international leadership speaker and author—as a guest speaker.  For the scope of this event, Focus Bari designed and conducted in cooperation with the Linkage team an “extraordinary” B2B study, the results of which were presented at the event.  The study was remarkably successful, as it was completed by 320 leaders and enterpreneurs of the private sector, who expressed their views, attitudes and intentions regarding a possible leadership cooperation between the private and the public sector. Participants stated that it is the public sector who is responsible for inviting them to cooperate, and spontaneously expressed their reservations, as well as their recommendations in order for them to join such a cooperation for the healthy development and growth of our country.  What is also worthnoting is that they all feel that “the momentum is now”, openly expressing their willingness to leave their current position and contribute to the welfare of our national management and economy.

See the study’s basic findings here