About 6th Regional PCM Coaching Conference "Playground"

- The timeline of success -

2015

Firstly, we wanted to invite people to Play the world game.

2016

In the following year, we explained Where Coaching Meets Science.

2017

The 3rd Coaching Conference Hands on, was dedicated to the different coaching niches.

2018

In 2018 the conference was about how coaching can be Applied in companies.

2019

The last year’s conference invited people to Keep up the momentum with things they already do masterfully.

Are you brave enough to push beyond your limits? To be a leader rather than a follower? To try something new despite the fear of failure?

Then you must break all the rules!

And who does it better than children?

We invite you to step into the future. Be the part of the new era of HR!

Are you brave enough to play? To take the responsibility of losing or winning?

Welcome to the playground!

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn from the world’s leading thought leaders and trainers.

Speakers

Nate Regier

PCM Certifying Master Trainer

David Smith-Collins

Executive Coach, Trainer and Consultant

Guarav Arora

Facilitator, Coach, and Speaker

Trainers

Magdalena P. Wojciechowska

Executive and Business Coach

Dragoljub Đuričić

Drummer

Arpi Karapetyan

HR Professional, Coach and Consultant

Pedja Jovanović

International Professional Coach (ICF-MCC)

Marija Branovački

International Professional Coach (ICF-ACC)

Nikola Mladenović

Erickson Solution-Focused Coach and Scrum Master (msgNETCONOMY)

Ivan Pribićević

Executive Consultant

Nikolina Janković

Solutions Delivery Unit Team Lead (ManpowerGroup)

Josip Bošnjaković

Trainer, Consultant, and High Performance Team Coach

Dragan Ristić

HR Consultant (Atria Group)

Ana Nikolić

PCM Coach and HR Manager (FIS)

Olivera Zdravković

PCM Coach and HR Manager (Galenika)

Meet your heroes!

- Keynote Speeches -

Nate Regier

PCM Certifying Master Trainer

The Compassion Effect

We have a compassion crisis in our world. Conflict, drama, and miscommunication wastes resources, hurts productivity, and undermines morale. Compassion is the solution. Compassion is the practice of demonstrating through our behavior that people are valuable, capable, and responsible. More than empathy, more than accountability, compassion is an approach to leadership and relationships that includes the heart, head, and hands. In this seminar you will learn about the cost of drama in the workplace, and how compassion can provide a way to engage differently for breakthrough results.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Define drama and identify the costs of drama in the workplace.
  2. Define compassion and identify the three compassion skills.
  3. Use The Compassion Cycle to engage positively in the most difficult interpersonal situations.
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David Smith-Collins

Executive Coach, Trainer and Consultant

How to be a Wickedly Charming Coach

A little like Nanny McPhee perhaps?

When you need her but don’t want her; she is there, when you want her but don’t need her; she’s gone. Taking a rather playful and fun approach to the coaching profession, David reveals the rebel inside and invites us all to follow him to the magical playground of the new era of HR.

There we can find some excitement with new friends and old, in a stimulating, safe (but not too safe) environment.

Nanny McPhee v Mary Poppins. Which one is our role model?

Generations divided?

Can we as coaches and thought leaders, demystify the needs and challenges of generations Z and Alpha? Should we try or is it time for them to coach us perhaps?

Who is supervising this metaphorical playground anyway? Why should we continue to play it safe? Are our traditional coaching models now out of date and as such should we lead the way to challenge our professional conventions?

Is it time to radically re-write the coaching rules of engagement?

‘Everyone needs a coach’; maybe, but can anyone be a coach? Seriously!

If we desire startling consequences to flow from our coaching, what special super-powers will we need to develop or adopt?

Charm; The power or quality of delighting attracting or fascinating others. What can we do to attract or allure clients? What dark (or light) arts are out there to help us?

David will take us on this mystery tour full of coaching delights.

Have fun!

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Guarav Arora

Facilitator, Coach and Speaker

What’s your Song?

Is life happening TO you? Or is it happening FOR you? These two questions are totally different. They define a life you would live. Your life is crafted around your song. The keynote session revolves around deepening your awareness to discover your default song and how it’s impacting your life.

How is it possible few of you are able to build life-long relationships and others struggle to find a place for themselves? How is it possible few are able to manifest a life they want, and others face challenges on a daily basis?

The 45 minutes talk will help you to identify your default song and how will it impact your life. Your behaviour is connected to your song. In your song, you can have fear or the essence of your being. Understand how the songs of fear, insecurity, inadequacy are different from the songs of hope, faith, love, purpose in leading your life. Once you are able to create that awareness, you will be able to make a necessary change for the future you deserve and desire. Awareness creates choices.

You have to see this awareness in your mind. Changing the song of your life is probably the most important change you can make. If you review the song of your life, the quality of your life will improve. The more important question is- Are you willing to look deep in order to discover your song? Let’s have fun and dance on our collective rhythms.

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Choose your game!

- We know that it's a tough choice, but in order to win the best experience for yourself, you should choose 1 among 3 workshops from each block to attend to (overall 3 workshops during the conference). -

I Block

Dragoljub Đuričić

Drummer

Pedja Jovanović

International Professional Coach (ICF-MCC)

The rhythm of leadership

In order to be successful, the organisation needs different people: leaders that provide stability and continuity in work, the ones who successfully respond to challenges of turbulent environment and the ones who initiate the changes.

Did you hear about “the drummer syndrome”? That is a term that comes from rock music, but it can often be seen in business too. What is it actually about?

One rock band consists of different people. Usually the leadings are the singer and the guitar player or the singer and the keyboardist.

The drummer and the bassist are rarely in the first row, almost never. After a while it happens that the drummer leaves the band for some reason. In that kind of situations, you can often hear “So what? They will find someone else. He didn’t sing, didn’t write songs, wasn’t in the centre of attention”. And instead of finding the replacement, the band falls apart.

Drummers are often patient, unobtrusive people who don’t tend to be at the forefront; instead they have everything under control. By doing that, they unobtrusively dictate the band pace.

Who are the drummers of your team? Who dictates the pace, who follows it and who is trying to accelerate it?

 Lerning objectives:

  • You will develop a skill to motivate clients of different types of personalities in order to achieve their goals.
  • Learn how to conduct each team member competencies into energy necessary for achieving main goal

Methodology that we will use during this session is the most innovative approach in leadership development – coaching through the art of sound!

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Ivan Pribićević

Executive Consultant

Let’s build a city!

In our playground, we are going to build a city together. We want to play with LEGO bricks to achieve more efficiency and to deliver results as promised to the investor. Compressed by time and a big thing to do, we will build a new city that will shine with prosperity. How to build a city in less than 1 hour? Come, play with us, and find out!

Learning Objectives:

  • You will learn how to break the content into a practical context.
  • We will learn how to identify waste and build programs to eliminate it. In this way you will improve the quality of your work.
  • You will learn how to add more value to teams and optimize the effort of the members, by proper use their time and energy

Methodologies that we will use during this session are Lean and Agile PM.

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Josip Bošnjaković

Trainer, Consultant and High Performance Team Coach

Visual Thinking – making our brain believe

Do you want to communicate complex ideas and project plans clearly? Are you willing to learn how can you generate interest and captivate your audience? The answer lies in “Visual Thinking” methodology. Our brain needs guidance. It needs pictures and colors to see and to believe. This workshop is going to give you magic on how to create a colorful future by using simple shapes, shades, and relations. We will draw, have fun and work on your strengths. Come and join us!

Learning objectives:

  • After this workshop, you will gain the knowledge on how to communicate your idea and vision more effectively.
  • The most important thing you will learn is to use this methodology for visualizing your goal clearly.
  • Through visualization, you will gain the power to process a piece of information more quickly.

Methodology that we will use during this session is Visual Thinking

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II Block

Marija Branovački

International Professional Coach (ICF-ACC)

Nikola Mladenović

Erickson Professional Coach and Scrum Master (msgNETCONOMY)

Say yes to play!

Are you looking for a fresh way to enhance your team coaching effectiveness and provide teams with a fun, sustainable approach that breaks through barriers of culture, background, gender, expertise and language while truly celebrating diversity and inclusivity? This workshop is about bonding, hands-on, get-up-from-your-chair-and-play approach that leaves teams energized, engaged and aligned in communication. When played regularly, these games will enhance team listening, communication, support, trust and presence and consequently boost team performance. In this fully experiential session, we will explore the mindsets and competencies that are valuable to high performing team.

Learning Objectives:

  • Description of the improviser mindsets and capabilities required for effective team success, and know how to apply to business teams.
  • (Development of a) repertoire of games you can introduce to teams, as well as ways to help teams to learn from the games they play.
  • Inspiration to include play into your team coaching projects and encourage teams to keep playing in order to enhance communication and boost performance.

Methodology that will be used during this session is combination of “High Performance Team Coaching” and role playing.

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Nikolina Janković

Solutions Delivery Unit Team Lead (ManpowerGroup)

Dragan Ristić

HR Consultant (Atria Group)

Love at first interview: How do you recognize the right one (candidate)?

Do you want to strengthen your skills and get new tools for finding just the right candidate? In a playground of good candidates, we all want to choose the one who willfully lives up to our organization through vision, mission, and high performance. If we think of a selection interview as a blind date, the answer lies in knowing what we are looking for. What behaviors do we expect, what values and interests the candidate should possess, and last but not least, what personality profile will fit into the organization. You will have the opportunity to create an ideal candidate profile for your organization with the SHL tool, which will be a kind a takeaway. Tips & tricks for the selection process will be tackled through discussion and sharing of the experiences of all participants.

Learning objectives:

  • Setting objective criteria for reorganisation, restructuring, transition and career planning within the company
  • You will not make typical mistakes during an interview
  • After this workshop, you will be able to create a strategy in order to achieve stronger alignment of people

Methodology that will be used during this session is SHL assessment.

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Arpi Karapetyan

HR Professional, Coach and, Consultant

Hawaii game

If you want to learn new game for communication improvement and find out why is this workshop named Hawaii game, then join it! On this interactive, educative and funny workshop you will have a chance to play a game that will give you better insight in different communication styles and how to adapt to them. Gained knowledge from this workshop can be used in next areas:

  • Recruitment
  • Team communication improvement
  • Team diagnosis purposes

Learning objectives:

  • Be flexible in communication
  • Learn active listening -this is where you make a conscious effort to hear not only the words that another person is saying but, more importantly, the complete message being communicated.
  • Upgrade your self-esteem

Methodology that will be used during this session Einstein’s riddle in combination with different coaching tools.

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III Block

Magdalena P. Wojciechowska

Executive and Business Coach

The fish puzzle

Most of us take the communication process for granted. We have been communicating since the first moments of our lives but how do we make sure that it is really effective? One of the answers is High Impact Communication, which has its own rules. Keeping these principles enables us to communicate effectively with other people and solve the most complicated problems successfully.

Please join me on the journey to High Impact Communication and Problem Solving, with the use of a mysterious … Fish Puzzle.

In order to solve the puzzle, you will firstly need to create a positive group atmosphere, then start thinking outside the box all the time keeping in mind that you will all have to energize and motivate each other.

Learning objectives:

  • Learn approaches of High Impact Communication by engaging, influencing, persuading and trust building in order to cooperate well with other members of your team.
  • Understand how to translate different cultural dimensions into successful cooperation with co-workers and business partners.
  • Work out tactics and tips for developing and delivering High Impact Communication.

Methodology that we will use during this session is High Impact Communication.

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Ana Nikolić

PCM Coach and HR Manager (FIS)

I play on my own way

Life and business are play. Why are we sometimes lazy to play? Why are we sometimes bad in the play? Because we do not play on our own way.

“I play on my own way” is workshop that is based on one of the most famous development methodologies in the world, Process Communication Model. This funny and interactive education will help you to get to know and understand yourself and the others better and to learn how to play your game on your own way and to enjoy it.

The base of the methodology is Transactional analysis and the creator is Dr Taibi Kahler who got an Eric Berne Memorial Scientific Award for his work.

Learning objectives:

  • Characteristics of basic personality types
  • Different ways we all experience the world
  • Ways different types of personality communicate
  • How we motivate ourselves
  • How we get into stress

Methodology that we will use during this session is Pcocess Communication Model.

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Olivera Zdravković

PCM Coach and HR Manager (Galenika)

Let’s change through the game

In business only the change is constant. Everything else is questionable. If we don’t change, we can’t grow nor develop. That is why we should make some changes. But how? Through the game.

Workshop “Let’s change through the game” will introduce you the most contemporary methodology, business simulation WallBreakers that will give you an experience of great changes in business.

WallBreakers is based on series of scientifically proven theories about personality types, management, organisational culture and change management, including theories of authors such as John Kotter, Rick Maurer i Daniel Goleman.

What will the workshop be about?

Workshop will represent an interactive and short simulation of managing great changes in business.

Learning objectives:

  • Increased self-awareness of managers about their leadership style
  • Insight in consequences of different managerial and leadership decisions
  • Defining priorities through implementing changes and resources allocation
  • Creating mutual referential frame for team that works on changes implementation and that faces with possible resistance

Methodology that we will use during this session is WallBreakers.

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Venue

Hotel Metropol Palace Belgrade

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 69

Tickets

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Sponsors

- Our Partners In Crime -

Conference Educational Partner

Media Sponsors

The New Era of HR!

Let’s play!

Marija Branovački

International Professional Coach (ICF-ACC)

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  1. I am:

Marija Branovački. My personal vision is having the freedom to make my own choices and create my own future. Also, I want to have a house at the seaside ?  

  1. My superpower is:

Accepting people the way they are. Searching for a solution in every situation allows me to get very far. I never give up on my dreams and I am always working with the teams. ?

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

At the “Playground” I will be leading an activity where participants will perform a school play. They will be playing different roles while acting. They will be having fun while showing their talents.  

  1. My secret formula:

I want to be able to say „NO“ when they tell me „YOU MUST“!

Pedja Jovanović

International Professional Coach (ICF-MCC)

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  1. I am:

My name is Pedja Jovanović, I am a father, an entrepreneur, a business developer and a high-performance coach. My passion is supporting individuals and organizations in achieving personal and professional goals and growth through personal and organizational transformational processes.

  1. My superpower is:

I am good at connecting different concepts and approaches in order to create the best possible solutions for achieving the desired outcome. My superpower is strategic thinking. My inner motivation is triggered by challenges. I love to accept challenges and offer solutions. Making the impossible possible is my favourite challenge.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Challenger at the playground.

  1. My secret formula:

My motto is Dream Big & Act Smart.

Magdalena P. Wojciechowska

Executive and Business Coach

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  1. I am:

Magdalena P. Wojciechowska. My vision is to keep looking for attractive and effective ways to help people change in the way they want and desire.

Also, I am waiting for my Labradoodle breed puppy, which will be my workmate during coaching sessions.

  1. My superpower is:

Inspiring others to see the change as exciting even though it’s a bit challenging journey. Giving them the power to spread their wings and fly!

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

 I will be leading an activity where participants will need to find more than one solution to some very tricky puzzles 🙂

  1. My secret formula:

“Fall down. Stand up. Straighten your crown & carry on”.

Nate Regier

PCM Certifying Master Trainer

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  1. I am:

I am Nate Regier, the founder, and CEO of Next Element Consulting. I am a missionary kid and a recovering psychologist! My vision is to bring more compassion to every workplace in the world. I have spent my life pursuing simple and effective methods to engage differently in order to bring more compassion to every relationship.

  1. My superpower is:

My superpower is economy of effort! I’m always searching for the best, most effective way to say or do something.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Merry Go round. I loved this when I was growing up and I use it as a metaphor in trainings.

  1. My secret formula:

Optimism is a discipline. I work on it every day. My motivational quote is “Brand is a lagging indicator of the quality of your culture.” – Bobby Herrera

Dragoljub Đuričić

Drummer

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  1. I am:

Dragoljub Đuričić, a follower of my own rebelliousness that comes out from some kind of intuition. I consider intuition as a reflection of intelligence and not as a sixth sense or witchcraft. It usually starts from nowhere and never ends! I accept everything as an infinity. I have, in front of me, a view of a cosmos, which never comes back to me. It just sails on and on….

  1. My superpower is:

Smile! That is the picture I believe the most, even when it is false. My only job is to recognize it and that’s not always an easy task. It’s more appealing to smile than to frown.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

I am certainly a player of infinity! In life, everything is easier through the game, whether on a seesaw, a swing, or with a ball, right?

The law of nature offers us an unmistakable guideline we should all follow. When we pour a bucket of water, it always finds its way to flow away. I do not accept that there is a hopeless situation, there is always a way out. Just find it! Using the laws of nature for living and behaving is our repay for the privilege called life. By accepting those laws, we are confirming that we have repaid our debt to the cosmos properly. And that is what cosmos expects from us.

  1. My secret formula:

The rhythm of life that carries me, may not always be in my control, even though it brings me where I wanted from the beginning. That makes me happy. Happiness is relative. While living life on your own terms in correspondence with your values and fairness with your attitude. In that case, the deception of “happiness” feels good. It stimulates you. It gives you strength. It helps you to skip the obstacles easily. Smile combined with radiate energy easily opens even the lead door.

Nikola Mladenović

Erickson Professional Coach and Scrum Master (msgNETCONOMY)

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  1. I am:

Nikola Mladenović. Acting with loving sensation. Always.

  1. My superpower is:

Exploring. Verbalising. Dancing.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Provoking randomly, running and screaming euphorically. Then sitting on the swing to chill out.

  1. My secret formula:

Courage is a question of style when you don’t have any chances left.

Arpi Karapetyan

HR Professional, Coach and Consultant

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  1. I am:

Arpi Karapetyan, HR PROFESSIONAL, COACH & CONSULTANT and simply a PERSON who enjoys life.

  1. My superpower is:

Bringing changes to people and organizations.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:
  1. At the playground I am:

A person who is having fun with everyone but also learns lessons.

  1. My secret formula:

Life is a beautiful journey full of unexpected surprises and development.

David Smith-Collins

Executive Coach, Trainer and Consultant

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  1. I am:

My name is David Smith-Collins and I am an Executive Coach, Trainer, and Consultant, after retiring from the British Police Service as a senior officer around nine years ago.

But really, I am still a cop in my heart and spend my time hunting for toxic leaders to rehabilitate and misaligned teams with broken/stolen hearts to coach and help repair.

  1. My superpower is:

I have been compared to Tigger from Winnie the Pooh. I tend to bounce around with endless energy and being annoyingly enthusiastic about everything.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Definitely on the zip wire. Going as fast as I can for as long as possible. Screaming with joy all the way in a defined and purposeful direction, knowing that the final impact of my journey will be significant.

  1. My secret formula:

Feedback is a gift.

Ivan Pribićević

Executive Consultant

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  1. I am:

Ivan Pribićević. Inspired to become an infinite player.

  1. My superpower is:

Playmaker.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Swinging.

  1. My secret formula:

Never stop learning.

Josip Bošnjaković

Trainer, Consultant, and High Performance Team Coach

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  1. I am:

I am Josip Bošnjaković, a father, a husband, a friend, a coach, a trainer and a life hedonist.

  1. My superpower is:

Well, since I like to play, every day is a big playground for me. Hence, my superpower is definitely making each day different.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

The one that gets the attention 🙂

  1. My secret formula:

Being different.

Nikolina Janković

Solutions Delivery Unit Team Lead (ManpowerGroup)

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  1. I am:

Nikolina Janković – Striving to achieve my potential to the fullest and to be the best version of myself. On the other hand, I am passionate about helping others to get an insight into their potential and to focus on their development.

  1. My superpower is:

If I were a superhero, I would have SF on my costume 😀 That stands for Solution Finder because I like to fly through the obstacles.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

I am the one who is digging the dirt in a quest for treasure. Similar to finding the best in people.

  1. My secret formula:

Be honest and genuine, build trust, deliver the best quality, be consistent and work hard = these are the stairways to success.

Guarav Arora

Facilitator, Coach and Speaker

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  1. I am:

Gaurav means Pride

My intention is to accept myself fully and completely and to live in a space of abundance, freedom, and joy. I would love to experience courage and surrender in every moment. My intention is to hold the space for others with compassion that allows them to live with peace, self-acceptance, and possibilities.

  1. My superpower is:

Ability to connect a dreamer, an energetic person and a fighter.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Wave experiencing the surface of the ocean, dance of light polarities and being one with the ocean in the same moment.

  1. My secret formula:

Work on yourself! The key to growth in the world is the result of the internal growth of individuals

Ana Nikolić

PCM Coach and HR Manager (FIS)

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  1. I am:

Ana (read it backwards to understand it better). Personal vision – Every day being better, kinder and wiser than the day before.   

  1. My superpower is:

PCM Surfin’. Catching the waves of different PCM personalities in order to engage and motivate.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

PCM Surfer

  1. My secret formula:

Ready-set-go for it!

Dragan Ristić

HR Consultant (Atria Group)

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  1. I am:

The playful psychologist who strives to find inspiration and new momentum in each day. Enjoying the game called life as much as possible.

  1. My superpower is:

The energy that moves and plays with others, changes and finds the best in them.

  1. An emoticon that describes me:

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  1. At the playground I am:

Dancing bomb.

  1. My secret formula:

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