30 Years – Matthias Mono and the SIZE Profile in Marriage
“ARGO is our partner for running our Leadership Academy. Two of the founders, Barbara & Ron Thoma, play the leading roles as coach and trainer. Ron was the first of the two I got to know as a trainer in a seminar. I also got to know Barbara in Ron’s seminar – though not personally, […]
30 Years – Ewald Riedelmayer and the Cultural “Oops”
“When I received the invitation to write down my ARGO story, I had to laugh because a few funny and quirky moments immediately came to mind: the change project at Austrian Technik where I ended up in the pool, the first Abel WS with participants in a celebratory mood, the Forstinger groups, and also a […]
30 Years – Johannes Hindler and the Last Chance
“I had applied to many organizational consulting firms as a junior consultant. The responses I received were brief rejections such as ‘we don’t hire junior consultants’ or ‘how many hundreds of consulting days have you already delivered?’ With one firm, it almost worked out, but they had just hired another junior, so that opportunity fell […]
30 Years – Fritz Zehetner: People Instead of a Business Plan
“30 years of ARGO – and the story begins, as so often, not with a business plan, but with people. With very different people. My personal ARGO journey began in 1993 during transactional analysis training with Dr. Werner Vogelauer. It was there that I first met the personalities who would later found ARGO. Dieter – […]
30 Years – Ronald Thoma: Big World. Big Mistake.
“It was the early 2000s. ARGO was still young, I was full of energy – and suddenly I was given the opportunity to lead my first workshop in Asia. Shanghai. 30 executives from across Asia, including Australia. The first ARGOnaut in the Far East. I was prepared. At 7 a.m., I landed in Shanghai. I […]
30 Years – Manfred Karner: How Uncertainty Turns into Trust
“In 2019, as partners, we implemented the High Performance in Insurance Sales program together with ARGO at Raiffeisenbank Leoben-Bruck. As we often did, we arrived the evening before. Everything was prepared, the concept was in place, the year-long support program was set — only one detail was unknown to everyone: Who exactly were the leaders […]
30 Years – Beatrice Kubalek on Worries and Opportunities
“When I started my apprenticeship as an office clerk at ARGO almost 17 years ago, I was told from the very beginning that I would only complete the three years of training and that there would be no option for a permanent position afterward. In a small organization like ARGO, this simply wasn’t possible – […]
30 Years – Patrick Thom and the Dream Team
“So many positive memories are connected to ARGO for me – choosing just one story is actually far too difficult. One particular highlight, however, remains crystal clear in my mind to this day: the team event at Lake Attersee in September 2016. It was a very special time – not least because Oli Bender and […]
30 Years – Barbara Thoma and the Name ARGO
“Agro? Ergo? ARGO! As company founders, it was not always easy for us to position a firm called ARGO in a banking and insurance environment strongly shaped by agriculture. In the beginning, the need to explain — and to clearly distinguish ourselves — was considerable. And yet the name actually came about in a way […]
30 Years – Claudia Bahn and the Foot-in-Mouth Moment
“Another — rather ARGO-esque — story, this time about the logo: I met Barbara Thoma when we were both quite a bit younger, and I was an ambitious graphic designer. The occasion was an ARGO party in 1996, celebrating the opening of the office. We immediately liked each other. A good start. After a pleasant […]