YESYOUCAN Training & Coaching Kft. – Hungary

YES YOU CAN Training and Coaching Kft is a Hungary-based and registered private institute delivering a wide range of soft-skill development programs such as trainings, workshops, conferences, and coaching sessions – both for the profit and for the non-profit sectors.

OUR STORY
In 2008 five enthusiastic teachers and trainers came together to form an innovative and international team of educators who wanted to experiment and use non-formal educational methods in their programs. As the result of this initiative YES YOU CAN Kft was founded to provide support both for inspiring students/clients/participants and educators to create space for learning and innovation. Since then YES YOU CAN has been a lab for dozens of creative and committed professionals and a couple of thousands of learners and participants.

In 2011 YES YOU CAN  was one of the first institutes in Hungary that introduced educoaching in its curriculum. Soon their best practices were of interest and started to be shared, the staff members are still invited today to deliver trainings or give lectures on the topic due to their extensive experience. The educators at YES YOU CAN  were also among the digital pioneers who shifted to online education long before the pandemic times. They have worked together with many different international partners and shared their good practices and tips as YES YOU CAN has also been the beneficiary for many international Erasmus+ projects.

In the last 13 years, the organizational portfolio has covered the following areas: communication studies, language teaching, exam preparation courses, business soft skills, coaching and mentoring, intercultural studies, gender studies, inclusion and diversity programs.

The trainers and coaches working at YES YOU CAN are committed to raising awareness of diversity and inclusion. The central motive of the development programs is how to better understand each other, how to improve communication and collaboration between the representatives of different nationalities, ethnicities, generations, gender roles, or social-economic status.

The international staff holds internationally recognized degrees, credentials in corresponding fields and they are often also involved in some research areas or in applying new theories in practice. The educators of the institute are often invited to lecture or deliver at train the trainers programs or at accredited coach training events. The organization takes pride in providing a cutting edge and high standard knowledge in the intercultural field and in high-level coaching practices following closely the ICF (International Coach Federation) standards.

At the moment the core team consists of 5 qualified trainers and coaches. Our organization regularly collaborates with many professionals (guest experts, mentors) on particular projects, events or research which require special expertise.

 

What are the activities and experience of the organisation in the areas relevant for this project? What are the skills and/or expertise of key persons involved in this project?

YES YOU CAN has extensive experience in writing grants since 2009, actively participating in, or organizing Erasmus+ projects and other mobility projects. Our many successful past projects are proof that we are able to work together and motivate each other as a team.

“A picture is worth a thousand words” is an old adage meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys its meaning or essence more effectively than a mere verbal description. In the digital era there are plenty of tools that help us create visuals, infographics, design thinking, mindmaps etc. easily.
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Key Personnel:

Melinda Zay has many years of experience as a trainer, coach, manager, and organizer of varied educational events. She holds degrees in English-American studies (BA, Eszterházy University- College) Hungarian literature and grammar and adult education (MA ELTE University) diplomacy studies (MA Kodolányi University) and she is a Ph.D. candidate in intercultural communication at ELTE University Hungary. Melinda is a credentialed coach (by the International Coach Federation) at PCC level (Professional Certified Coach) with more than 2000 hours of individual and team coaching experience. Melinda is an enthusiastic and inspiring person on the team, always open to new technologies and approaches, organizes events or shares new ideas. Her proactivity, responsibility, and thoughtfulness make her an authentic trainer and a suitable project co-ordinator.

Karoly Hanyecz is a credentialed business and life coach (ACC level by ICF) and a licensed Agile Coach and Agile Transformation Leader. He has extensive experience in the business sector having worked for several Fortune 500 and 50 companies for the last 20 years. He has an engineering degree from Budapest University of Technology and an MBA degree from Corvinus University of Budapest. In the team, Karoly’s forte is the familiarity with business trends and cutting edge technology, in Project Management he takes the scrum master and agile coach roles.

Andrea Hanyecz is a coach and business trainer with an MBA degree. She is also a Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP)  who is highly skilled at enhancing innovation project results by understanding, designing, and improving experiences across the entire end-user relationship. In our TRENDSS project, she helps us make sure that our innovations are built and updated based on understanding and responding to our target group’s needs by empathic approach and designing a consistent upskilling journey. Andrea has many years of experience in different leadership roles in the for-profit sector and with her help, we can extend our scope to the business adult education field and be agile and aware of the expectations of the current business environment.

Colette Nagy is another pillar of the organization’s intercultural projects. She is a German language and culture teacher, intercultural trainer and qualified coach who often conducts her programs on digital platforms. She has MA degrees in German language and literature, MA in applied linguistics from ELTE University Hungary, MA in European Law from the University of Geneva and she is also a Ph.D. candidate in intercultural communication at ELTE. Colette is German by nationality and German is her mother tongue. She is also an authentic intercultural mediator since she has always belonged to two cultures, and learned to adapt to different cultural expectations and norms. In her trainings, she focuses on experiential learning by several innovative non-formal educational methods. She is both a great theoretical and practical professional, and she pays a lot of attention to details and complements Melinda’s visionary approach.

Gabriella Kovács is a native English speaker (born in Australia) language teacher, communication trainer and digital coach. She holds B.Ed, M.Ed, English language teaching and English literature. She also worked at the English department of ELTE Teacher Training College. She speaks Hungarian which is her other mother tongue. She is an internationally credentialed ACC coach. She founded the International Language Coaching Association, ILCA, a dynamically growing global society for language and communication coaches. She is involved in many international and intercontinental conferences and trainings both in person and on virtual platforms as an organizer, speaker, or trainer. She is also an innovator in digital language coaching and training.