Celebrating 16th anniversary of my company VEZA Inc. (BusinessKnowledge.biz) together with my clients.

Once more I had an opportunity to be part of Qatar Skills Academy trainers’ team; to plan, prepare and deliverer Effective Negotiation Skills training course for their clients in Doha, Qatar. The QSA team has provided me with exceptional level of professional support and hospitality.

This public training was carried out in Grand Hyatt Doha Hotel. Again, I was pleasantly surprised by my training participants’ enthusiasm and receptivity.

For the first time in Serbia, the UPKS (Association of management Consultants of Serbia) organized and delivered the preparatory training for CMC consultants certification. CMC Global – International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) is headquartered in Zurich and gathers the most prominent associations of business consultants around the world and its main brand is CMC – Certified Management Consultant.

I was one of the of CMC Preparatory Training Program trainers for “Management Consulting Process and Tools”.

This was my  7th volunteering engagement at the Belgrade Youth Center where I held interactive workshop on career development  ”How to develop successful career?” for talented girls at the School for Talents in Belgrade Serbia.

I was participating at the conference on knowledge transfer within the project “Strengthening of excellent research infrastructure in the Danube region”. The conference was organized by RAS (Development Agency of Serbia) on 9th September at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Belgrade.

At the training within the project “Strengthening the research infrastructure in the Danube Region – RI2integrate” I have presented the Project Action Plan (where I was the co-author). The Project RI2integrate is part of the Danube Transnational Programme. The total of 17 partners are included in project realization: Hungary, Romania, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Slovakia.

For the first time in Serbia, the UPKS (Association of management Consultants of Serbia) organized and held the CMC consultants certification. CMC Global – International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI) is headquartered in Zurich and gathers the most prominent associations of business consultants around the world and its main brand is CMC – Certified Management Consultant.

I was one of the members of UPKS certification committee, who were accredited to assess, certify and re-certify Serbian CMC consultants.

At the award ceremony in Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Serbia, at the Center for Digital Transformation in Belgrade, I have received IT Security and GDPR Data Protection Expert Certificate issued by by Austrian Chambers of Commerce – WIFI – WKO

The Training and certification of second group of consultants was organized by CDT Center for Digital Transformation in Belgrade on 13-15 April and 11-13 May 2019. I was one of the Digital Transformation trainers under mentoring of trainers from WIFI, certification competence center of the Wirtschaftskammer Österreich (WKÖ). The second module was the training for Certified Digital Transformation Experts for IT security, data protection and GDPR.

This was my 6th volunteering engagement at the Belgrade Youth Center where I held interactive workshop on career development  ”How to build successful career?” for talented girls at the School for Talents in Belgrade Serbia.

At “Dare to Be Original Conference” in Marsh Open Space in Belgrade, Miodrag Kostic and Tijana Sekulic working as trainers and consultants for GIZ (GIZ- German agency for international development and cooperation), performed a digital transformation workshop for young Serbian entrepreneurs. The conference was organized to promote entrepreneurship development in Serbia by “Original” Contemporary Magazine for Students created by Novak Djokovic foundation. At the digital transformation workshop we have discussed with entrepreneurs what is digital transformation and how can they use digital technology and digital business models to successfully transform their businesses? Digital transformation training

At the award ceremony in Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Serbia I have received Digital transformation expert certificate issued by by Austrian Chambers of Commerce – WKO

Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia has decided to establish the Center for Digital Transformation d.o.o. (CDT). Digital transformation is defined broadly as any change associated with the application of information and digital technologies in all aspects of the establishment and/or operation of (start-up) companies, public sector bodies, associations and human society as such. The project for the establishment and development of the Center for Digital Transformation is supported by the GIZ – the German Organization for International Cooperation, as well as the Austrian Chambers of Commerce – WKO. As part of this program, from June 22 to June 24 I have participated in Digital Consultants Certification Preparatory Training Modules – Development of Digital Roadmaps and Digital Transformation (Business Models & Processes).

We held public seminar on business communication tools in business at Hotel Astoria in Belgrade. The trainers were:

• Miodrag Kostić
• Jelena Dančević
• Bojana Matović
• Marko Burazor

The training topics were:

As part of the GIZ (German Cooperation Agency) regional programme to strengthen the cross border tourism at the Middle and Lower Danube through the Danube Competence Center (DCC) we have performed workshop facilitation and mediation for the meeting of entrepreneurs in the tourism sector with representatives from Serbian Chambers of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Tourism of Serbia, Business Woman Association of Serbia and local Tourist Offices. The goal of the workshop was to find out and share: “What help and support is needed by entrepreneurs, and what services could be provided by participating institutions and organizations to address that needs”? The workshop facilitation was performed using “World Cafe” model.

Workshop in Rogljevacke Pimnice near Negotin in Eastern Serbia

Workshop in Rogljevacke Pimnice near Negotin in Eastern Serbia

Workshop for tourist entrepreneurs in Sombor Municipal Library

Workshop for tourist entrepreneurs in Sombor Municipal Library

This was my 4th volunteering engagement at the Belgrade Youth Center where I held interactive workshop on career development  ”How to build successful career?” for talented girls at the Komercijalna Banka School for Talents in Belgrade Serbia.

On September 9th I held free public lecture on “How to communicate in a successful team” at the Center for Career Development by LINK Group. There were 40 participants from LINK Business Academy and IT Academy and over a 200 viewers over live streaming.

Video from lecture on teamwork at the Center for Career Development by LINK Group

On March 8th, together with Marko Burazor, we organized and performed a free leadership workshop at ESTIEM LG Belgrade student organization (European students of industrial engineering and management) at Faculty of Organizational Sciences at University of Belgrade.

Video from leadership workshop for students of ESTIEM LG Belgrade at Faculty of Organizational Sciences

We have performed “Advanced sales negotiation skills” Public training in Belgrade Chamber of Commerce sharing our knowledge, expertise and experiences with participants from more than a dozen Serbian companies.

I performed this public training together with Marko Burazor.

As part of the GIZ (German Cooperation Agency) regional programme to strengthen the cross border tourism at the Middle and Lower Danube through the Danube Competence Center (DCC) we have performed 8 interactive training sessions “Building relations with costumers in the tourism sector” and “Online marketing for tourism service providers” in Kladovo Serbia, Odessa Ukraine and Kishinev Moldavia in English language.

Also we have created 8 presentation for entrepreneurs in  tourism

http://danubecc.org/manuals-online-marketing-in-tourism-sector/

http://danubecc.org/manuals-customer-relations-in-tourism-sector/

Pictures from workshops:

Kishinev Moldavia

Odessa Ukraine

Kladovo Serbia