Anbefalinger

Alan Starling, ITD Executive, IBM Denmark A/S

Birgit has made significant contribution to the success of ITD, ITS and MTS in her role as coach, counsel and mentor. Birgit’s cultural and professional coaching to me has been of great value in enabling more effective leadershop of the Danish team. Birgit has performed hundres of coaching sessions end received outstanding feedback consistently (Birgit used a survey system for feed back and her overall rating across these sessions is 9.5 out of 10!). She is sought out to provide presentations on coping with changne, handling stress and taking personal responsibility. In addition to her formal responsibilities, Birgit is always sensitive to situations where she may be able to leverage her knowledge and expertise to assist in leadershop or personelle challanges in all parts of IBM.

Rather than waiting to be asked, Birgit will consistently seek out new areas where she can contribute to the climate and results of IBM using her coaching skills. I believe that without Birgit’s contribution, our results would have suffered – she makes a real everyday difference in our execution.

It has been a great pleasure to have Birgit on the team and I am excited about how her contributions will improve the ability of the leaders in ITDelivery to execute on their objectives.

Madeleine Wittko, Solution Representative for Hybrid Cloud

“Jeg har prøvet mange forskellige slags coaching metoder i forhold til selvudvikling i min personlige som professionelle profil, men aldrig har jeg mærket forandring som da jeg begyndte hos Birgit Friis. Birgit formår i den grad at stille de helt korrekte spørgsmål, med en sådan professionalisme, at du kommer præcis derhen hvor du ønsker at befinde dig. Jeg vil på det varmeste anbefale enhver at påbegynde et coaching forløb hos Birgit Friis”

Søs Wigø, Project Executive, Global Technology Services, IBM

Birgit er en professionel og engageret coach, som er fantastisk god til at facilitere processen med at komme ind til benet i forhold til en problemstilling.

Birgit har en fænomenal evne til at sætte sig ind i og facilitere problemstillinger uden at kende alle sammenhænge i den pågældende situation fordi Birgit spørger og spørger og spørger indtil der kommer et svar tilbage, som kan bruges videre i processen. Birgit mestrer disciplinen at stille åbne spørgsmål, som tvinger deltageren/deltagerne i processen til at tænke efter og svare og tage stilling til, om det er indenfor eller udenfor kontrol at ændre.

Birgit er dygtig til at få problemer, man tumler med, til at se simple og dermed løsbare ud. På den måde er det ingen sag at komme frem til en løsning på noget, man har gået og tumlet med i lang tid uden at kunne se lyset i enden af tunnelen.

I de sessioner med kundedeltagelse, som Birgit har faciliteret for mig, har Birgit evnet at inddrage alle deltagere i en aktiv dialog og sætte fokus på at løse en problemstilling indenfor rammerne af, hvad der er muligt og med en samlet aktivitetsliste som resultat. I sessionerne har Birgit endvidere sørget for, at de eventuelle spændinger, der har været mellem parterne før sessionen, er blevet løsnet til fordel for en samlet og konstruktiv tilgang til at adressere problemer og udfordringer.

Kan på det varmeste anbefale Birgit som coach og facilitator.

Jens Jacoben, Afdelingsdirektør MTS, IBM Denmark A/S

Birgit is an important player in our transformation. The employees are forced to change focus and behaviour and, through her working methods, Birgit is able to affect and provide insight to each one of them.

Personally, I have benefited greatly from Birgit’s help. I often feel that changes happen too slowly, and that my efforts bear no fruit. Birgit helps focusing on the important issues and, in small increments, to succeed. Self-insight is the key in this work.

Input from at few of my department managers support my statements:

One manager gave the following feedback:
Birgit’s work gives me:

• A higher level of self-insight, and personal development. Output are actions for me to work with through  sessions
• Tools that allow me to develop and work with employees
• Related to birgit’s work with me. she is the safety valve, where you in our sessions can discuss issues and viewpoints without the issue is having to reach a right or wrong answer/solution.
• “The truth has an ugly face”, in a cool way. One gets retort and one learns new things about oneself.

The manager of an other department wrote the following:

On the personal level
I have successfully used Birgit a sevel times within the last three years. It has given me a larger self-insight and a narrow – however efficient – toolbox, which I use daily.

Specific areas

• Out of, and within, control – sail my own ship, do not sail other people’s  ships
• Separation of personal and business values (Corporate Company)  
• Focus on own individual efforts  and entry of value
• A healthy life leads to less stress (exercise, diet)

LEADERSHIP (people mgmt)

• Proactively dealing with stress symptoms in employee  
• Modification of mindset and a greater understanding of the IBM business (WHY & HOW)  
• Elimination of the possible gap between HR and the immediate manager. (I.e. personal challenges, which the employee may meet both privately as well as work related challenges, and where they  estimate that a familiar third party may help (on own or my initiative).  

As can bee seen. Birgit is a valuable contributor to MTS journey into the future.

 

Litta Radmer, Coordinator Engagement contractor, IBM Denmark A/S

Jeg vil gerne sige dig stor tak for den sparring du har givet mig i min tid i IBM. Den har været hård, ærlig. relevant og ikke mindst kærlig. Jeg var glad for dit stress håndterings kursus. Jeg bruger det stadig til, engang imellem at minde mig selv om hvad der er inden for min kontrol, og ikke mindst hvad der er uden for min kontrol. Du hargivet mig god sparring med svære beslutninger, som Coach og jeg kan kun give dig de varmeste anbefalinger med på din vej.

Jeg håber at der er mange der får glæde af dine kvaliteter. Du har en kæmpe værktøjskasse som du bliver ved med at fylde værktøj i, og bruger aktivt. Det er nok også en af de mange grunde til at du er så dygtig til det du gør.