Head of Commercial Nordics - Decarbonization Solutions at Technip Energies
Mika Tienhaara is a dynamic leader with over 20 years of global experience in energy, engineering, and pioneering processing technologies. Renowned as an award-winning innovator, Mika...
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Reveals how the candidate dealt with the issues and can reveal any toxic sides. Also whether the candidate owns the responsibility or is blaming others.
Reveals whether the person consider anything as team efforts and consider others, or shows a non-wanted behaviour
I take actual real cases I have experienced and use for discussions, to see what scenarios and answers that arise. Then I can reveal what happened and compare with the alternatives that the discussion has resulted in.
Happy and positive. Have achieved a lot in my years. Still have many goals and personal development I want to achieve. Can work on areas to improve. Have a lot of energy, glad when I can help others and see them succeed.
Well, for me it is important to listen to a person and create an understanding of the person. From this I tend to ask some questions in a way to guide and this develops over time to a more clear and detailed path and dialogue with the actual person.
In today's connected life and work, digitalization, mobile phones, social media can be a big source of distraction. People wanting your attention for their things can also distract you from the goals you have for the day. The mind can also drift off, but this is something you can train yourself in having better focus as well as planning with shorter focused work sessions to achieve your daily goals.
I feel I am in a good place; with my family, geographically and professionally. I am here to learn something new every day and to guide the people around me.
From simple things such as a morning coffee, to taking on the tasks for the day, connecting with people.
Achieving goals and milestones together with others.
Professionally, I want to have built a robust global market leading company with a well-recognized brand.
Quality time with family and friends, balanced with exciting professional advisory roles that ties people-market-technology-innovation and academia/research together
Grow a global company. Active branding both the company and myself. Volunteer work in industry organisations as well as board representation/academic side roles.
Emails and social media - dedicate time to respond and use. Be selective.
Demands and ad hoc requests from colleagues and other stakeholders - apply critical thinking on what is urgent and valuable vs. what can wait. And evaluate whether it is your task or someone else's to handle.
General ad hoc needs - try to organize and plan ahead.