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Leadership Development and Executive Coaching in Norway
Leadership through self-awareness Assisting companies in leadership development and recruitment, Norwegian Trollfjord Consulting aims to create self-awareness and critical self-evaluation to bring out larger parts of one’s own potential, which they believe ultimately creates better leaders. By Line Elise Svanevik
With a strong collaboration with De4 – a consulting business working across the south-eastern part of Norway – Trollfjord’s work reaches from northern Norway down to the east. Starting up in 2004, the consulting company is based on the fundamental premise that “when we can’t work together, we create the Battle of Trollfjord”, explains Rune Frøyslie, partner in both Trollfjord Consulting and De4. This battle was fought in 1890, where industrial fishing ships fought against the fishermen in traditional rowing boats. Their vision is simple: “We don’t go into businesses and take over; we go in and support them and contribute to their existing processes,” says Frøyslie. “We 40 |
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work a lot with groups and individuals, and the overarching aim of what we do is that we lead like the people we are. That’s the starting point in our work – to work with self-awareness and critical self-evaluation, and to take out bigger parts of people’s own potential.” Two-thirds of their work involve the private sector, and one-third is public-facing. Catering to industries including oil and gas, insurance, travel, retail, energy, real estate and construction, Trollfjord Consulting also works with cognitive coaching and psychometrical testing tools, which lay the foundation for processes.
Understanding is key When they go into businesses, the
first thing they do is try to understand. “Through conversations with all parties, we try our best to gain an understanding. Because we don’t have a sixth sense, what we hear is what we base our work on – we don’t try to put our own perspective in too much,” Frøyslie explains. “From there on, our work is clear and transparent. We don’t have an agenda – we strongly believe that too many consultants go in and aim to fix something with their own perspective in mind and have tools that they want to sell. We work with the people who are there and the things that are being brought to our attention, which is why our basis is understanding.” Trollfjord Consulting and De4 also recruit around 80 leaders per year for a broad spectrum of private and public sector jobs. For more information, please visit: www.trollfjordconsulting.no and www.de4.no