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 […]
30 Years – Christine Dworschak and the Human Side of Work
“SBB/UC4/Automic and ARGO – to me, they simply belong together. And honestly, it was probably the best time of my professional life. Year after year, Bernhard and I sat in my office in Wolfsgraben and planned the training program for the coming year. Together, we probably experienced everything the world of people development has to […]
30 Years – Mislav Spajic – Walking the Talk
“About 25 years ago, as I was finishing my studies, I was convinced that my days of learning were behind me. My plan was simple: to have no plan at all. I believed I knew everything I needed and would only need to brush up on my ‘vast knowledge.’ Nevertheless, I started improving my German […]
30 Years – Lucas Unger and the Polar Expedition
“I look back very fondly on my time at ARGO as a young trainer. There are many highlights and associations I could talk about. One particular highlight: the 2017 VUCA event series “Polar Expedition Endurance.” For a major client, we had designed an outdoor experience format on the topic of VUCA and recreated Ernest Shackleton’s polar […]