How I can help
How I can help
Whenever you're ready, here is how I can help you.
Some of the companies I have worked with
Personal Branding: Build Your Personal Brand
You are probably good at marketing the company you work for. But how do you respond if you are told to market yourself? You should have the answer ready before you use it.
Be aware of your market value as an an employee and senior manager.
Your personal brand is an important resource for the further development of your career. We live in a VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity) world with constant and recurrent economical recessions, lay-offs, downsizing, reorgs and financial instability forcing people to leave their jobs every year and in bigger numbers.
In line with increased digitalization, stronger cost pressure and changing economical conditions, it is increasingly demanding for employees to achieve theirs and the company's goals. A change of management is in some cases used as a means of achieving rapid change in addition to new competence in top management.
Social media has opened the door to building brands in completely new ways. Today, top managers are expected to embrace trends and attack the complex challenges that today's market has to offer.
Personal branding is an important part of both employees and top manager's career strategy. Every one has a personal brand, which must be looked after and further developed with regard to both the company's and the individual's reputation.
In my “Market Value Canvas” program you a will have a personal branding strategy drawn up and implemented which includes:
Definition of your real market value, your "unique selling points" and your target market
A step-by-step process on how to bridge the gap and bring your value to the market and achieve “candidate-market fit”
A targeted media plan that includes an overview of the various media platforms, social media, online and offline
Implementation of your personal brand strategy on the various platforms - especially LinkedIn
Whether you change jobs voluntarily or involuntarily, it is smart to have built a personal brand and a good reputation. The probability of finding a new job internally or externally increases, by been aware and working conscious and having an strategy with his your own brand. That is going to be decisive for developing your career further and creating a career plan B.
What others say about my Market Value Canvas workshops
Facili-station Meetup community
Join our FREE Facili-station Meetup community! We bring together physically and online, practitioners, companies and curious people to discuss, and share challenges, tools, best practices and case studies of successful facilitation as well as general insight and learning sessions to help you be more prepared to run your own workshops and level up your facilitation career. Click here.
Workshop Design and Facilitation
If you need a workshop designer and facilitator to help you or your team to solve challenges, find solutions, make decisions, and to be more effective an perform better and faster, or a trainer to teach your team on how do this, please contact me at jose@facilistation.com so we can schedule a discovery call with me.
My workshops are designed to provide the structure required to quickly align and move forward with a plan or idea so you can reclaim time, energy and headspace.
I can custom design and facilitate all kinds of workshops independent from the industry, and have experience with:
Strategic planning
Validating new products
Decision-making and problem solving
When solutions need to be prioritized in a standardized way
Team building
Kick starting a new project or program
Retrospective: a session to share feedback and improve performance
Onboarding teams to new industries - negotiating team roles and responsibilities
Offsites: leadership retreats, strategy retreats
What others say about my facilitation
"Outstanding workshop facilitator. I’ve run hundreds of workshops myself, and seen a lot of very good facilitators during my career. José is a top-level facilitator. He is exceptionally good at creating psychological safety for the team and making sure everybody is heard. He has a wide array of frameworks for structuring the conversations and information.
His ability to improvise and adapt on the fly is remarkable. And he is very good at visual thinking. The way he visualizes the discussions whilst they are happening has helped both our internal teams and our clients on several occasions, leading to quicker decision making and breakthroughs."
"He has great facilitation skills, bringing out the best of the teams and highlighting the real issues to be solved. He is structured and engaging. The feedback from other participants have been great, and they all want more from him."
“Jose has a unique combination of genuine curiosity, deep insight on how to turn on the energy and creativity in a room. I have seen many times how Jose cracks the code in how we turn complex problems to… aha experiences and through that makes our, perhaps ordinary, sales pitch into a killing one.
Whether turning a sales pitch into a comic book or enthusiastically facilitating a design sprint, Jose is able to expose his openness and curiosity to his co-workers and customers, getting the group to deliver a result and feel great about it afterwards. And it works. I know that Jose’s input has been the tipping point winning large contracts.
It helps that Jose also has a winning personality that radiates trust and he is someone you just want to hang around with.”
“Jose is process driver that gets everyone onboard and working towards a common goal. His brilliant interpersonal skills makes him a great manager, leader, coach, facilitator etc. He thrives leading workshops, helping organisations and teams to live up to their full potential.”
Coaching
When you're in service to others, I’m in service to you. I can offer you a personalised 1-2-1 or team coaching program tailored to you and your situation.
There are so many things about moving into a management or leadership role that, on paper, are simple when, in reality, are really freaking hard.
Whether you’re a seasoned designer, a new manager, or an executive leading an organisation, working with someone to help get you unstuck is invaluable.
From moving into management to leading as the organizational executive, transitions can be lonely and isolating. When you don’t have a lot of clarity of where to go or which direction to point yourself in, I will work with you on developing your relationship skills beyond the product. I will be an active listener that has had many of the responsibilities you do.
Together, we will enhance your resiliency by looking beyond design. I will support you when you feel overwhelmed by the new factors of your role. Together, we will build you up to do the hard parts of leadership with more confidence and clarity.
If you are interested, please contact me at jose@facilistation.com so we can schedule a discovery call with me to find out if you and me are the right fit and how I can help you to achieve your goals.
By the way, if you think coaching is expensive, you should see the cost of a life and work that you don't love... sometimes one good conversation can change your life and your career.
What others say about my coaching
“José was my mentor and coach during a critical time in my career and life, and his insights and assistance helped me clarify my goals, priorities and road ahead. I was extremely impressed by his ability to untangle complex situations and make me understand more about my strenghs and weaknesses. I would recommend José to anyone needing career advice or coaching. The sessions we had really made a huge difference for me as a person and a professional.”
“I met Jose Manuel at the Founders Institute program where he was collaborating as a mentor, and after attending his inspiring talk we started discussing and sharing experiences.
I have gotten great advice from him regarding my entrepreneurial affairs, where Jose Manuel has helped me in defining the right focus and scope for the MVP, and possible future strategies. We have also had meetings where we discussed management techniques and how to deal with different situations, where Jose Manuel presented his illustrations that make the theory easy to be understood and remembered.
His way of communicating and passion as well as his positivity make him a great communicator and coach that would transmit his values, knowledge and attitude to the ones that share some time with him.”
Speaking
Looking for inspiration? Practical tips and advice on how to create value and impact? I’d love to speak with your team. Choose from existing topics or let me design a customised topic for your group
I have shared presentations and workshops with audiences across the globe at companies, conferences, webinars, innovation labs, technology hubs, startup accelerators and academic institutions.
What others say about my speaking
“We were lucky enough at AIESEC to have Jose hold both a workshop in LinkedIn as well as a lecture on genuine and effective networking. I can say with my hand on my heart that both of these lectures have been incredibly valuable to the management and members of our organisation. With a burning and genuine commitment, Jose has really changed our perception of what LinkedIn is and how it can best be used, as well as how one should think about building one's own network. Jose inspires, activates and creates a good dialogue with the audience. On behalf of the management, we give our warmest recommendations, 6 stars! Thanks again, and good luck in the future.”
“Jose gave an inspiring talk about career development in the FiftyFifty management program we participate in. He connected well with the audience and gave concrete and practical tips that inspired the participants to immediately work on their competence profiles and career aspirations. Jose is a firework of energy! I can recommend him for similar posts!”
“José came to our small start-up and held a very inspiring workshop on LinkedIn, communication and profiling. This was very useful and we have adopted several of his tips afterwards. Jose has a unique ability to link psychology, networking and career development. Highly recommend his workshop if you want to take the next step in your career.”
Mastermind programs
I host and run 2 small, exclusive and top level mastermind cohort programs: one for “Design Leaders” looking to become good leaders and executives, and not only managers, and another for “Facilitators” looking to level up their facilitator skills, career and business, with only 10 talented people per mastermind program.
Success is hard, you feel alone and misunderstood by both your managers, peers and fellow colleagues, and often it feels like you won’t reach your destination. To get to the levels of functioning you seek, you need knowledge, support and the right network.
I am starting a 2 new international cohorts in September 2023 and I am admitting applications. If you are interested, please contact me at jose@facilistation.com so we can schedule a coaching and application call to find out if the mastermind program is right for you.
What others say about my mastermind groups
"I had a great experience exchanging ideas about design in Jose’s mastermind group with other design leaders. Jose assembled a group of design leaders from some of the biggest design environments in Norway for exchanging experiences and ideas. He orchestrated discussions with different themes. This gave me new insights and inspiration to do my own work as a design leader even better. The other group members were new to me and are now part of my network."
“I got to know José through my work in Computas and I immediately realised he is a very special person. At the time I was looking for a mastermind group to work on my goals and I got involved in a mastermind group José was starting. He has led many mastermind groups and his extensive knowledge and excellent facilitator skills really helped get everything organised and advance activities as scheduled. This provides tremendous value while working in the group as every member gets to provide their valuable input and work on each persons goals. Thanks to the contributions of José and the others in the group, I have been able to meet my immediate goals, set new ones and continue advancing towards my bigger long-term goals. Thank you José!”