This year is all about fostering the true values in a volatile environment. Rooting to some extends to feel credible and bold in the actions are crucial to making decisions. Especially this year will be a year full of decisions that will impact the path and the progress I make. With these expectations, I‘ll set…
Category: Work experience
Review 2019
This year is my fifth year of my website and my fifth year I am blogging publicly about my experiences and reflections. I am overwhelmed about the feedback and reach of this platform, also thanks to SEO of my website, listing my site as the second list on google search after my LinkedIn profile. This…
Emotional Leadership
As soon as we talk about leadership, we have either a role model in mind or set certain qualities to it. Working for an MNE, I have learned that, there are for sure qualities you see in true leaders and top-management. Especially the values charisma, empowerment and emotions are on the rise of true leadership….
The Berlin winter
What a blast of a time in Berlin. After spending four months in the capital, I leave with a total new perspective on livable cities and life quality in metropolitan areas. The merger of culture, contemporary and activism makes this city vibrant and heard by the people. My work-occasion as my first project in this…
10 Impressions as an Entrepreneur of New York City.
To experience NYC as a graduate of the master’s programme Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship, entices to immerse in the entrepreneurial environment and start-up scene. In the following, I will list my ten impressions and takeaways as an Entrepreneur of NYC. 1. Hustling is a common skill. The first thing you will notice immediately is the…
Chain mentoring
Mentoring is about acknowledging people and the most powerful tool of networking. It’s not about exploiting people’s power or time by having a predetermined purpose in mind, which is commonly misunderstood. For me is mentoring is about connecting through personal touch points, sharing passion, thoughts and mindset that is reflecting each other in different stages…
Internship at Equiwatt
The CEO of Equiwatt headhunted me for an internship at his tech-startup in the domain of AI-based smart home technology. In the interview, I was representing myself as a technology-driven generalist with fast-learning and as an allrounder. The CEO, COO and an advisor from the university conducted the interview. All three were impressed by my…
WAKA fruits Ltd.
I have introduced WAKA in a previous post already. However, it is now the right time to introduce WAKA with all its values and USP properly. WAKA Fruits is a food-startup based in Newcastle upon Tyne. I am the co-founder together with 3 other course members from Germany, Indonesia and the UK as well as…
STARTUP scene in Newcastle
I am using this blog post to write about a unique experience I have here in Newcastle, which I realised after reflecting what it is. I am talking about the startup scene in Newcastle. It’s a goldmine of collaboration and disrupters with the university as the primary pusher. Companies such as Noveltea; Equiwatt and many…
Extrinsic motivation – Hoerbiger
From business model innovation in a international environment to a Tier 2 supplier. Yes, I am supporting as a vacationing worker the production plant Hoerbiger in my hometown. From having an average time of way to work of 1,5hours, it has been reduced to 10minutes walking or 2 minutes by bicycle. But it is exciting to…
Reflection of being a ’Working Student’ at Daimler AG
Another 6 months at Daimler has been past and with that my time at GSP/RM. I cannot describe what I have learned during the time at Daimler, I would need hours just to write down the task and responsibilities I had during the past 12 months. However, I am glad to have such great working…
Reflection on Internship Daimler AG
6 months are past, and I am still at Daimler. I continued my work by being a 20h working student and supporting my team. It was the most intense and most satisfying 6-months in my work life. I had so many responsibilities and actively volunteered for any job I could take to learn a new…
Internship at Daimler AG
On Wednesday is my first day at Daimler AG as an International Business Development Intern. I had this motivational push through Kerstin Walther to apply for an internship at Daimler, of which I would benefit at a later stage in my life. The telephone-interview with two colleagues a few months back was great! I was…
Newcastle – I will come back.
I left Newcastle 4weeks earlier than anticipated. But, after submission of all my assignments I had no reason to stay in Newcastle anymore. I have also been on vacation, doing a Scotland road-trip with a friend coming over from Germany for a week. I left Newcastle without saying good bye, because I had a plan…
Newcastle – Half-time report
We have Easter break. Which means, I got one-month no lecturers and the university is not operating. I think it’s a good idea to wrap up the past 3,5 months here in Newcastle. Where should I start.. Well, I am very impressed by the University and the city! The campus is enormous, and the buildings…
Aims 2016
This year I will be experiencing my second stop and grow up culture in my life – the United Kingdom. I will stay there for 6months after 17years of absence in living. I am excited and set myself three goals for this year. First, take everything with you and make the most out of it….
Reflection on VW Internship
DISCLAIMER: This reflection has been rewritten at 15.05.2016 as part of an assignment for Newcastle University using the STAR method (Situation – Tasks – Action – Results) Situation: 8 weeks internship at Volkswagen in Granada, Spain in Project management for a product launch event with a team of 28 VW employees + around 120 event…
New consultancy project
Consultancy made by students for microbusinesses in process optimisation and standardisation. After success pays off, my first fashion startup, I decided to start a consultancy together with some coursemates addressing microbusinesses. In our market research, we found out that many craftsmen are too busy with operational tasks, that they have no time to think about…
Automotive Industry? – YES
Well no, it wasn’t that clear all the time and actually, I think there are much better agile industries out there, which will emerge in the coming years to a significant economic driver. However, through a direct connection of my father, I got an internship opportunity within the project management department at VW driving experience…
First full-time employment
………. Took a long time to reflect on my job. reflecting on my working attitude: highly motivated talking to people – distance connecting to somebody? just with team members. learning a lot about IT and databases. friendly person but difficult to connect with. I’m not sure if I can work here after finishing my bachelor degree.