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Once you made it – what changes in the C-Suite?

When you aim your career at an executive position you might be a rather smart fellow. Meaning: you probably want to prepare and strategically take the right steps to get there. In order to know what’s necessary to make it, it’s useful to have some idea about what awaits you there. What is actually different about a C-level position and how can you prepare for these changes?Less technical knowledge, more leadership skills<span style="background-color: transpare

Updated 5 years ago

Challenges of changing jobs on an executive level

When you change jobs on a very advanced career level there are a number of specific challenges you have to deal with. You might think you know what’s coming for you but you just might be mistaken. Because a lot of people in these positions have faced challenges changing jobs that they didn’t see coming. Let’s have a look at some of them:People will look for youAn executive position usually comes with a certain level

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7 tips for settling into your new job

Changing jobs is often a very complex process, especially when you’re changing a bit higher up on the career ladder. And the process doesn’t end with the new job – that’s just the beginning of a whole new chapter. It’s hopefully exciting and positive that you start in a new position, so it’s best to know how to start out right. Especially in the (not really seldom) case that you didn’t have much time in between to relax, it’s best to have a plan on how to settle in the best possible way.<strong style="background-color: tr

Updated 5 years ago

How a career change can be just the step to bring you forward

Changing jobs is never easy. It certainly can take you time to figure out that you need to change career in the first place and then doing it can be quite scary – involving a lot of unknown factors and a certain risk. On top of that career changes are often associated with some sort of “beef” at the previous job and the often challenging situation of job interviews, negotiations and possible relocation. Be that as it may, the possible advantages of a career change are often neglected in the equation.<span style="background-color: tr

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Share your strategic vision using the right communication – and be a really good boss!

Communicating with your team – you might have noticed throughout your career – is both very essential and very difficult to get right. It’s much more than telling people what to do and follow procedures because you have to be able to inspire and connect. Especially since work today is becoming more and more remote and digital, communication becomes even more a means of keeping everybody connected.Share the contextA

Updated 5 years ago

Educating your elderly workforce – still worth it?

Minding the risk of calling anyone elderly and making them out to be “over the hill” I’ll just go ahead and count myself into this group. I’m not a digital native or millennial, I’m not even Generation X – and still I’m far from being done with education.Recent developments have shown that the workplace and the “classic” career are rapidly changing and people no longer come out of school and university “finished” with their education. Especially with digitalization and the rapi

Updated 5 years ago

The change you can make with coaching - today

The way I’m dealing with clients during search processes is very much influenced by consulting-oriented interactive, individual and solution-based processes. This immediately has a lot in common with a lot of coaching approaches. Reason enough for me to dive further into consulting and monitoring these processes in a professional context. My interaction with customers is essentially a cooperation of experts that needs to be handled with care and a solid background.The Kieler

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Executive Storytelling – how to bring your leadership to the next level

I bet you remember the story of two young engineers in a garage and how they created Apple. I bet you can even picture them, remember the names and have tied some characteristics (like innovative, outside the box and creative) to this story. That in a nutshell is proof of the effectiveness of storytelling in a business context. And that is why you need storytelling as a leadership ability. You need to be able to lead with stories. And you need to know how to do that.What stor

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Announcing our first industry topic – GenSearch Germany Business Reception Berlin

When we started out with our networking event at the eve of Bionnale last year, we mainly focused on a nice little get-together for people to get in touch and make valuable connections with each other. Encouraged by the success of the event last year, we want to continue and enhance this activity. This year we not only want to gather around executives and decision-makers from the life sciences industry but we also want to provide something we value very highly ourselves: industry topics.<strong style="background-color: tr

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Meet with HR and Life Sciences Experts in Berlin

GenSearch Germany cordially invites you to its business reception event in Berlin in cooperation with bioVentures. After successfully launching our event last year and backed up by the experienced tradition of our French colleagues from GenSearch in Paris we want to extend our focus beyond networking to industry topics.

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