Hungary

Róbert Miksa Kristóf
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My speciality is creating conceptual frames for organisations to develop their workforce longterm. The most important points for me are efficiency, fairness and respect for the individual.

I have been an independent consultant since 1987, as well as a senior lecturer at the University of Economics and at the British-Hungarian Educational and Training Centre since 1980. The main subjects I teach are: strategic management, human resource management, customer care and communication. As an independent consultant, I have been active in designing, developing and administering customised training programmes. I have also worked for an editing house for 3 years where I was the linguistic editor of a bi-lingual periodical, Vue Touristique. About 10 years ago, my focus of activity changed from providing isolated training to setting up a conceptual frame first and then seeing what training programmes or other interventions fit best. For two years now, I have been the head of a national project to promote organisational development in mental care homes.

I am a Literature and Linguistics (B.A. Hons) graduate from Debrecen University, an International Human Resource Management (MA) post-graduate from the École Supérieure de Gestion, Paris and a Human Resource and Labour Issues post-graduate from the Budapest University of Economics. I am a certified evaluator for the London Institute of City and Guilds and a chartered analyst of the DISC system. I also worked for Scotwork Negotiating Skills as a negotiation consultant.

I was among the very first consultants to provide training programmes in post-communist Hungary. At the very beginning, people took the word training literally, and they dressed accordingly for the occasion! As a pioneer in the field, I am proud of the training programmes I developed with two of my brilliant colleagues at the very beginning of the new era in Hungary and have been improving and modifying them ever since.

I am most pleased when I transmit something and participants give positive feedback of the long-term benefit of what they have learned. I believe in practical programmes, when theory is kept to a strict minimum and discussions and practice abound. I think that care, credibility and knowledge are essential when providing professional help and support to clients.

I live in Budapest, Hungary, have a wonderful wife and three children.