A highly capable leader has been stuck in the same difficult situation with an employee for weeks.
sasten.com · Mirko Sasten
Clarify real situations.
Take effective action when it matters.
For people and organizations where leadership, collaboration, or development needs to work in practice—across Austria, Germany, and online.
When knowledge is no longer enough
You already understand the problem. But nothing changes.
Knowledge is usually not the problem. What matters is what people do when the stakes become real, relationships get difficult, or the path forward is unclear. That is where the work begins.
A leadership team has discussed the same issues for months without reaching a sound decision.
An internal trainer knows the subject inside out—and still speaks for 80 percent of the session.
A team stays polite but can no longer work effectively together.
Your starting point
What exactly are you dealing with?
You do not need to choose a service. Start with the statement that comes closest to the situation you are facing.
This is where I would start
Executive Coaching & Sparring
Individual · available for company-sponsored
engagements
Clarify a difficult situation and leave with a sound, actionable next step.
For decisions, conflicts, and conversations that are hard to work through openly within your organization.
Single session · 5 sessions · 10 sessions · from €240 net
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Leadership Supervision & Case Work
Organization · established leadership group
Work through real leadership cases and build shared judgment.
For small, stable groups that want to work through difficult cases with professional facilitation and strengthen their practice together.
1 × 3 hrs · 5 × 3 hrs · 10 × 3 hrs · from €780 net
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Team Development & Collaboration – In-house
Organization · team or leadership system
When the issue is not one person, but how the system works together.
For teams, leadership groups, and project groups—from focused clarification to team building and development tied to a real business objective.
1–2 days or 4–6 days · €1,900 net/day
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Practice Labs
Open enrollment · in-house by request
Not more information. Better action when it counts.
Open one-day formats focused on one clearly defined skill, with practice, feedback, and transfer.
1 practice day · 8–14 people · €490 incl. VAT
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Train the Trainer
Intensive: in-house · Professional: open cohort
Turn subject-matter expertise into training that engages people and delivers results.
For internal trainers, subject-matter experts, key users, and anyone responsible for designing or delivering training.
5-day Intensive or 6-month Professional
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Coaching Practitioner
Intensive: in-house · Practitioner: open cohort
Lead conversations that help people think clearly, take responsibility, and act.
From the five-day Coaching Skills Intensive to the eleven-month Practitioner program.
5-day Intensive or 11-month Practitioner
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Choose a situation on the left.
What connects every format
Real work, not training theater.
We do not start with a method. We start with the situation in which something has to work. Cases are clarified until a decision becomes possible. Skills are practiced until they can be used in real work.
years inside organizationsHR, organizational development, and leadership
responsibility.
years guiding development from the outsideTraining, coaching, consulting, and development
programs.
2010 first Train the Trainer programs2012 first systemic coaching program
More about Mirko and how he works →
What the work looks like
From a real pressure point to a clear next step.
Three typical pathways show how the work moves from a real situation to a practical outcome.
Subject-matter experts become internal trainers.
- Starting point
- Deep expertise, but training sessions turn into content overload and lectures.
- Work
- Five days covering learning objectives, flow, activation, participants’ own sequences, and direct feedback.
- Tangible outcome
- A self-designed and tested training sequence rather than a slide deck alone.
“We knew a lot. Delivering our own sequences showed us what actually works.”
The same discussion finally leads to decisions.
- Starting point
- Recurring conflict around roles, responsibilities, and priorities.
- Work
- Separate facts, interests, and relationship tensions; clarify decision space and accountability.
- Tangible outcome
- Named decisions, accountable owners, and a next step that can be reviewed.
“We were not suddenly free of conflict. But we could make decisions again.”
A difficult conversation becomes genuinely manageable.
- Starting point
- The facts are clear, yet the conversation keeps being postponed or stalls in the same way.
- Work
- Clarify the pressure point, interests, and personal constraint; test options and rehearse the conversation.
- Tangible outcome
- A clear conversation structure, workable language, and a scheduled next step.
“I did not leave with ten tips. I left with a conversation I could actually have.”
Optional learning and working venue
Das Schwarze Schaf in Bad Gams.
Selected group and professional-development formats can take place at an exclusive seminar and retreat venue in southern Styria, with a seminar room, accommodation, and outdoor grounds. Your group has the place to itself.
Up to 10 participants + program leadIn-person · accommodation · nature · exclusive to the
group
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Next step
Start with the situation. We’ll find the right format.
A few sentences are enough. In a brief conversation, we sort out what would be useful and identify the right starting point.
Directly with MirkoBrief fit conversationSituation · format · next step