Workshops for leaders and their companies
My approach
I teach managers, entrepreneurs, and specialists practical leadership, relational, and life skills so they can act wisely, effectively, and relationally.
During my development and change workshops, I combine my over 20 years of business experience with deep psychological knowledge and non-business inspirations to teach practical techniques, processes, and procedures. At the same time:
I support participants in expanding their awareness through practical experiences and integrating what they observe, think, feel, and do.
I stimulate dialogue, discussion, and active application of workshop techniques and discoveries to the realities of work in a given organization.
I moderate group work until specific cultural solutions are developed appropriate for the organization and their implementation plan.
I teach techniques for constructively working with resistance to change and how to step-by-step and collaboratively implement new techniques and solutions.
How do I work?
I conduct both single workshops and 6-12-month support, development, and change programs implemented at various organizational levels and for different employee groups.
I work with organizations according to my proprietary methodology covering four stages of collaboration.
UNDERSTANDING GOALS
AND NEEDS
I get to know the development or change leaders and the specifics, goals, resources, problems, and needs of the organization. We agree on project assumptions, program success criteria, and analysis scope.
ANALYSIS AND ACTION
PLAN
I analyze the organization, identify important cultural topics, recommend action sequence, and
together we develop the program shape and action plan.
DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM
I implement a development program 100% tailored to company needs. I support developing specific organizational solutions and their implementation, continuously monitoring action results.
CHANGE
SUPPORT
I support individual managers, change leaders, teams, and the entire organization in stabilizing
changes, scaling new rituals across the organization, and further development.
What does your organization need?
Below I present the topics of my most frequently conducted original development and change workshops. These workshops were created through my collaboration with dozens of companies, in response to their needs and challenges in five areas that determine company growth:
- Organizational culture and communication;
- Transformational leadership;
- Change management;
- Sales management;
- Personal development.
Each of the workshop topics presented below includes specific knowledge, techniques, exercises, and development and change processes.
I deliver these topics for groups of 6-100 people, in 2-4-hour workshop modules, in Polish or English, at company premises, offsites, outdoors, or online.
Organizational culture and communication
How to ensure effective internal communication despite a dispersed team and multi-generational workforce, and between organizational silos?
Most common workshop topics:
- Reinforcing and corrective feedback techniques
- Communication and cooperation in the company – key assumptions, techniques, attitudes
- Basics of effective I-You communication and I-messages
- Communicating needs and expectations
- Communicating boundaries in relationships (healthy assertiveness)
- Effective communication with C-Level in and outside board meetings
- Conflicts and misunderstandings – conversation techniques
- Techniques for understanding personality differences regardless of generations
- Ego states and roles in communication based on Transactional Analysis
- Contact mechanisms and avoidance
How to Build Healthy Relationships within the Company – in Teams and between Them?
Most common workshop topics:
- Active, deep listening techniques
- Techniques for asking exploratory, clarifying, confirming questions
- Clarifying past issues, misunderstandings, divisions – unblocking dialogue
- Diagonal and symmetrical relationships in private and professional life
- Optimal closeness or distance in a given organizational culture
- Dominance and subordination patterns in business, beyond feudal relationships
- Role traps in the drama triangle
- Traps of over-responsibility and excessive care
- Psychopathy and empathy – how to reconcile the poles of givers and takers
- Team relational meetings – rituals, agendas, techniques, questions, and exercises
- Team development stages according to B. Tuckman
- Unblocking interpersonal process flow in teams
How to Improve Employee Experience and Prevent the Best People from Leaving?
Most common workshop topics:
- Building healthy relationships with bosses (upward management)
- How to reconcile people’s personal values with organizational values
- Are we on the same path? Discovering personal values in recruitment
- How to discuss differences in values across generations
- Why we do what we do – how to communicate company mission and purpose
- Workshop process for identifying deeper sources of employee dissatisfaction
- Mapping reasons for employee overwork and burnout + solutions
- Techniques for determining strategic priorities at every organizational level
- Mapping basic business processes vs roles and tasks
- Organizational structure, roles, areas of responsibility, span of control
- Key decision-making mechanisms in the organization
- Impact of managers’ attitudes and actual behaviors on people leaving
- How to effectively reduce stress at work
- How to handle difficult emotions at work
- Basics of ensuring psychological safety for people
Inspiring transformational leadership
How to Sustainably Increase Motivation and Engagement of People in the Organization?
Most common workshop topics:
- Non-financial motivation techniques and building engagement
- Effective motivation of people with different personality archetypes in the team
- Priority-setting techniques and healthy selectivity in action
- Motivating and demotivating factors for people in a given organization (mapping)
- Workshops revealing and mapping unaddressed people’s needs
- Slow down to speed up – pace of action vs mindfulness and effectiveness in achieving goals
- How to free up time for important and strategic things
- Why are we here? – meaning of work in a given organization (focus group)
- Natural mobilization of people vs forcing – where is people’s energy in the company?
- Difficult conversations with employees, peers, bosses, partners
- Leader’s perfectionism and compulsiveness traps – how not to burn out yourself and the team
How to Become more Inspiring, Authentic Leaders?
Most common workshop topics:
- Leadership as the art of making people want to, not have to
- Leader authenticity – how to allow yourself human reactions in business?
- Leader’s excessive ego – why psychopathy doesn’t inspire and how to control ego?
- Active, deep listening techniques – for self and others
- Techniques for developing mindfulness and presence
- Leader’s enthusiasm and energy – what do you convey to others?
- Formulating and communicating an attractive, compelling vision of the target state and purpose
- Techniques for asking questions that uncover people’s needs, values, and desires
- Figure/ground – techniques for identifying deeper themes and phenomena in an organization
- Emotional intelligence – how emotions indicate what a leader should focus on
- How to effectively inspire people – visionary leadership style techniques
- Personality archetypes and leader’s value language
How to Effectively Develop and Empower Teams?
Most common workshop topics:
- Mature reinforcing and corrective feedback vs praise or criticism
- Situational leadership techniques
- Decision-making techniques with minimal information
- Leadership styles vs situations and needs of people and teams
- Effective task assignment and delegation vs managerial control
- Empowerment, responsibility, trust, and operational autonomy
- How to combine demanding and enforcing with supporting employees
- Interpersonal dynamics and team development techniques
- Conflicts and confrontations, conflict management, boundary communication
- Manager as coach – developing coaching leadership style
- Empathy and emotional support techniques for people
- Effective team meeting facilitation techniques
- Changing leader role in an effectively collaborating team
- Individual 1on1 and team meeting models – techniques, agendas
- Self-regulation, development, and change processes based on Self Theory
Change management
How to Effectively and Humanely Implement and Communicate Complex Changes in the Organization?
Most common workshop topics:
- Change planning and shaping processes in organizations
- Organization self-regulation process, methods for identifying impasses and blockages
- Workshops helping teams develop change goals, scope, depth, and metrics
- Change stakeholder mapping
- Stakeholder profiles, what we want to discover about them, why and how to do it
- How to reconcile conflicting stakeholder requirements
- How to effectively include and engage employees in change
- Clear and effective change communication at different organizational levels
- Methods for ongoing change project management
- C-Level communication, presenting initiatives to boards
- Selling and gaining support for initiatives within the company
How to Deal with Resistance to Change?
Most common workshop topics:
- Methods for mature work with resistance to change
- Methods for identifying blocks at individual and team levels
- Mature response to objections, concerns, complaints
- What difficult emotions in change mean and how to handle them company-wide
- How to help people overcome fears and anxieties blocking action
- Working with limiting beliefs
- Working with non-serving behavior patterns and habits blocking change
- Value conflict mapping
- Change and narrative identity of leaders and teams – Who are we, Who do we want to be?
- Changes in leadership roles and positions vs resistance to fully embracing them
How to Cope with Change You Can't Influence?
Most common workshop topics:
- Effective action in complex, complicated, simple situations and chaos
- Discovering opportunities in difficult, complex situations (sometimes crisis)
- Stakeholder profiles, what we want to discover about them, why and how to do it
- Acting in situations when nothing is known
- Mapping power and politics within the company (relational maps)
- Attitudes and roles towards change, responsibility and its boundaries
B2B consultative sales management
How to Unite and Mobilize People around a Shared Vision and Business Strategy?
Most common workshop topics:
- External forces and stakeholders shaping company culture
- Trends and unaddressed end-customer needs
- Organizational culture development process according to self theory and self-regulation cycle
- Culture as a living organism and its implications (cultural metaphors and dimensions)
- Techniques for expanding organization-wide awareness
- Mapping needs of the organization as a living organism in a given environment
- Action and decision-making typology in a given organization
- Who is the client – client profiling, understanding their needs, segmentation
- Product strategy, building solutions for clients
- Strategy and business model – operationalizing company vision and mission
- Basic organizational business processes, roles and scope of responsibility
- Value chain, added value
- Effective division of responsibility areas between board members and divisions
How to Increase Pipeline, Improve Metrics, and Ensure Sustainable B2B Sales Growth?
Most common workshop topics:
- Effective sales division structure
- Effective sales processes, sales process stages and sales tasks
- Sales forecasting and reporting
- Setting sales goals and indicators
- Sales territories – defining, segmentation, management, priorities
- Effective account management and key client service
- Techniques for generating sales leads and first client contact
- Financial and non-financial sales force motivation techniques
- B2B sales management
How to Build Partner Relationships with Clients and Sign Larger Projects through B2B Consultative Sales Skills?
Most common workshop topics:
- Company advisor/representative identity vs client expectations
- Mapping power, politics and decision-making mechanisms in client’s company
- Strategic business analysis of client organization vs sales activities
- Opening and discovery questioning techniques vs interrogation
- Techniques for conducting interviews and mapping key client organizations
- Techniques for ethical influence and building win-win-win solutions
- Techniques for confirming mutual understanding
- Techniques for offering and proposing using benefits and value language
- Negotiation techniques and building advantages in negotiations
- Professional handling of client objections, complaints and grievances
- Assertiveness and setting boundaries in client relationships
Mental wellbeing and personal development
How to Reduce Stress and Overwork Levels?
Most common workshop topics:
- Techniques for mindfulness, concentration and calming thought overload
- Stress or anxiety? Techniques for recognizing hidden meanings of difficult emotions
- How to handle emotions of frustration, helplessness, anxiety, anger, disappointment
- Strategic task and action priority setting and healthy selectivity
- Effective management of multiple tasks, excess, overstimulation, chaos
- How to reconcile conflicting stakeholder requirements
- How to decide what to participate in and free up time for important and strategic things
- Building psychological resilience in contact with self and others
- How to care for your High Sensitivity (HSP) in dynamic work environments
How to Develop Self-Awareness of who I Am and What I Need?
Most common workshop topics:
- What motivates and discourages me – deeper awareness of personal values
- Recognizing your needs and distinguishing them from mind’s wants and fantasies
- Communicating your needs and boundaries in business relationships
- Professional identity – Who am I for myself, team, peers and bosses?
- Healthy and unhealthy identification with roles
- Purpose and long-term professional vision, career stages
- Limiting beliefs and how to overcome them
- Leaving comfort zone vs healthy expansion of your boundaries
How to Develop your Humanity in a Business Environment?
Most common workshop topics:
- Mindfulness to body and its needs, life energy level, sensations and signals
- Developing emotional intelligence in business environment
- Integrity – personal values as criteria for life and professional decisions
- Developing self-worth, working with impostor syndrome
- Work life balance, life balance and how to take care of yourself
- How to allow yourself to withdraw from action, rest, stillness, have a bad day?
- Techniques and processes for stimulating personal and team creativity
- Mechanisms and habits related to entering contact and relationships
- Dimensions and illusions of loneliness and how to overcome isolation
- Healthy and unhealthy human ego
- Masculinity, femininity and sexuality in business environment
- Teamwork is not about love – healthy relationships in business environment
- The pitfalls of perfectionism and how to distinguish it from high standards
- How to avoid overwork and burnout dynamics
- The sense of purpose in work, action, life, and how to find it
- Career development and professional path planning – how to work in alignment with yourself
- Who am I? – expanding your self-definition beyond social and professional roles
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See client testimonials
Maciej meticulously prepares each workshop, precisely addressing our organizational needs, challenges, and goals, while also considering people's emotions, interpersonal processes, and the company's organizational culture. Thanks to his 20 years of experience working with organizations, combined with practical, in-depth knowledge in psychology and personal development, relational leadership techniques, and change management processes, he creates a psychologically safe space. In this environment, participants willingly open up, explore diverse perspectives and values, resolve conflicts, experiment, gain new inspiration, and collaboratively discuss and develop organizational solutions.
SYNGENTA POLSKA
Maciej is a true expert in global B2B sales and leadership. His unique skills include the ability to perceive and understand organizations as a whole (a systemic approach), the capacity to work on both hard and soft organizational elements, and combining business knowledge with a deep understanding of sensitive interpersonal issues. In workshops, he also inspires people with his enthusiasm and passion for building lasting relationships – both with clients and within the company.
(former ANT SOLUTIONS)
The workshops you lead always bring something new. In an unforced, almost involuntary way,
each time I discover something new about myself and the surrounding
reality. This invites me to work independently and is a continuous source of inspiration,
especially in the area of strategic management and team motivation. You always
leave me with new tools and techniques that later pay off and I can continue to
use.
STANLEY BLACK & DECKER
The workshops you lead always bring something new. In an unforced, almost involuntary way,
each time I discover something new about myself and the surrounding
reality. This invites me to work independently and is a continuous source of inspiration,
especially in the area of strategic management and team motivation. You always
leave me with new tools and techniques that later pay off and I can continue to
use.
STANLEY BLACK & DECKER
Maciej meticulously prepares each workshop, precisely addressing our organizational needs, challenges, and goals, while also considering people's emotions, interpersonal processes, and the company's organizational culture. Thanks to his 20 years of experience working with organizations, combined with practical, in-depth knowledge in psychology and personal development, relational leadership techniques, and change management processes, he creates a psychologically safe space. In this environment, participants willingly open up, explore diverse perspectives and values, resolve conflicts, experiment, gain new inspiration, and collaboratively discuss and develop organizational solutions.
SYNGENTA POLSKA
Maciej is a true expert in global B2B sales and leadership. His unique skills include the ability to perceive and understand organizations as a whole (a systemic approach), the capacity to work on both hard and soft organizational elements, and combining business knowledge with a deep understanding of sensitive interpersonal issues. In workshops, he also inspires people with his enthusiasm and passion for building lasting relationships – both with clients and within the company.
(former ANT SOLUTIONS)