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The No Time Never-Ending Story
“Violetta, something needs to change. We are much too stressed.” A great objective to hear from a team. So we start working, analyzing, streamlining, and finding solutions. Everybody is happy and on board. Aha moments start popping up. The team starts implementing....
Is Productivity a Pet Peeve for You?
Today’s professional world moves faster than ever. Responsibilities increase, external pressures increase, and overwhelm increases along the way. Adapting to a never-ending to-do list, constantly changing priorities, and working under pressure gives you the feeling of...
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The No Time Never-Ending Story
“Violetta, something needs to change. We are much too stressed.” A great objective to hear from a team. So we start working, analyzing, streamlining, and finding solutions. Everybody is happy and on board. Aha moments start popping up. The team starts implementing....
Is Productivity a Pet Peeve for You?
Today’s professional world moves faster than ever. Responsibilities increase, external pressures increase, and overwhelm increases along the way. Adapting to a never-ending to-do list, constantly changing priorities, and working under pressure gives you the feeling of...
Mompreuneurs and Other Super Heroes
I have been reading posts by mostly a very young generation of women who spread the word about their role as mothers, whooping up their job, or running a company, and appearing as the role models and super heroes to young women planning their future. It all appears...
The Epidemic of Unproductive Meetings
How many meetings do you have a day or a week? Are they all necessary and useful? If your answer comes with rolling eyes and a sigh of frustration, do something about it. Don’t waste more of your valuable time. Instead gain some white space in your calendar. Here are...
A Story of an Unproductive Day
People think they have to be productive 24/7. I can tell you, this is never the case. You have your good days and bad days. You have days when things run smoothly and days when you just want to slam the office door and run away. That’s called reality and part of being...
A man is not a plan or Don’t live someone else’s life
And I mean it to the very core of these statements. Part of my work is supporting women in executive positions or those who aspire to them. I also support executive assistants in their professional development, a target group that is still 90% female. These women are...
Teams and a new feeling of belonging
I recently had several face-to-face workshops with clients of mine. As much as I love working virtually, there is something to the fact of being with a group or team in one room, working on challenging topics, watching the reactions, the body language, and the...
Slow down – will you?
“How was your vacation? Wonderful, we were in Italy for 3 weeks”. Those short fun conversations are gone, since summer vacation was over around the beginning of or mid-September. The fun conversations were quickly followed by “It was wonderful but after one week I was...
The Time Illusion We Create
Whenever I travel, I see the time miscalculation that is created in the world we live in. It’s the flawless illusion of always getting things done or getting to a place on time. We are telling ourselves stories and believing them, too. After the pandemic, we are...
What is the MORE you are looking for?
One of the taglines I use in my coaching business is: Reach your goal, explore the more. The MORE is often the part people cannot identify. Recently, I have had a few of these encounters. People who are not happy with where they are or what they do. At the same time...
Stop pleasing the world around you – you’ll never succeed
In a conversation with a friend last night, and following a FB discussion on a very similar subject, I couldn’t fall asleep before writing my next blog. Once again, it’s about women who think they have to please the world around them first. On top of that, apologize,...
Save harbor and traveling the world
Time flies, even in this crazy time of the pandemic. In the beginning of the year I wrote that we all need to find a reset button. Well, you can tell I found it. I have made use of these crazy times when I had no control over my environment. I was getting upset about...
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List of Clients
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
- Sanomed Gesundheits- und Sportnahrungsmittel GmbH
- Wieland Werke AG
- PERI Vertrieb Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG
- SSV Ulm 1846 Fussball
- Diehl Aviation GmbH
- ACD Elektronik GmbH
- Colep Laupheim GmbH
- Georg Schlegel GmbH und Co. KG
- Bästlein Gebrauchtmaschinen GmbH
- Brunel GmbH
- Transporeon GmbH & Co. KG
- First Fit GmbH & Co. KG
- Prinzing GmbH
- WEH GmbH
Violetta Krok
Professional Development Coach + Trainer
VK Business Communication Solutions | Ulm | Germany