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More and more people, especially in the modern working world, are seeking guidance and support when there is a need for clarification, improvement and change in both their professional and private lives. With me, they have come to the right place.
In addition, there is often a desire for time out, small oases of well-being that can be easily integrated into everyday life, sometimes in a group. My offers in this matter are designed to help you take the proverbial deep breath, to recharge your batteries and to rediscover or strengthen that good, harmonious feeling for life that you may have been missing for some time.

My coaching services are designed to provide holistic support. They can be understood, on the one hand, as help and relief for people who find themselves in a conflictual life situation, or, on the other hand, as a purely work-related assistance when it comes to special challenges in the work environment.

Of course, I am also there for those who simply want more freshness in their lives, want to dare to do new things or feel the need for inspiring impulses.

As a coach, I do not provide ready-made solutions, but see myself as a trusting and empathetic companion when it comes to defining your own desires and goals. Together we develop the individual solutions. The sustainable development of my clients’ own solution-finding skills is very important to me.

I offer coaching, counselling and seminars for

• People who want to get in touch with themselves and their needs, in their private and/or professional lives
• People who want to take time out, get ‘out’ of their usual rut
• People who want to improve their quality of life in new ways Ppeople who want to get to know their creative side
• People who want to open a new door in their lives with creative methods
• People who want to gain charisma and radiance
• In particular, women who want to reach their full potential professionally and develop further (short- and long-term coaching, mentoring)
• Companies, self-employed or those who want to become self-employed (organisational consulting, business administration, corporate culture)
• Companies that want to initiate a change process or are currently in the middle of one, especially when it relates to company takeovers/transfers
• Management / Leaders
• Teams
• Career starters, new entrants and returnees
• Career climbers

People who have gone through a process of being coached profit in multiple and various ways:

• They live more deliberately
• They know their own abilities and needs
• They can access their resources and vitality
• They are empathic in dealing with others
• They treat themselves and others with esteem
• They are able to lead a self-determined life
• They possess a sense of direction and clarity
• They recognise alternatives and make deliberate decisions
• They are creative in many areas of their lives
• They set themselves goals and reach them
• They make their dreams come true
• They are successful
• They are confident

The fact that I am now a successful coach and management consultant is the result of an unusual journey of life, learning and work that began early on. After completing my training as an industrial clerk, I quickly took on responsible positions in a large company group, first in the technical sales of industrial nonwovens, and later in the material planning and marketing of a cosmetics company.

I went on to study architecture, gaining admission through evening classes, because I wanted to make a true and direct meaningful contribution to society and express myself artistically and creatively.

After graduating, I worked as a freelance architect for several architectural firms and was soon co-founder of a construction planning company that grew into a successful enterprise with over 90 employees. My responsibilities included the entire management. This meant office organisation, managing the business administration departments, personnel management and, last but not least, the strategic development and orientation of the company, also as a global player. A few years ago, the company was transferred to an even larger international company.
Especially at the beginning of my great self-employment, I would have liked to have had an external consultant at my side. I am not thinking of a specialist in construction planning, but of an encouragement expert, a coach. How much effort I could have saved, for example, in my own self-discovery and role definition in the company. And how much easier it would have been for me, also in my private life!

On the one hand, I knew how companies can operate successfully due to my commercial training. On the other hand, I was breaking new ground with my management ideas for the construction planning office with a focus on structural engineering. Convincing the employees, leading them through experimental phases because I had no role models, and setting up the office as a company was the task I set myself!

A little time cut – my training as a coach, years later, gave my personal growth and also the construction planning company another powerful boost! I hadn’t expected that so clearly.
Equipped with great new seminar and coaching tools, I was able to inspire the employees for modern business topics, we discussed corporate goals, developed strategic timelines, analysed teams, improved effectiveness and cooperation, increased communication and, above all, firmly anchored an appreciative corporate culture, and much more.

Alongside my professional activities, I found balance in my painting studio, where I have now created around 400 abstract, often personal pictures. Painting became an important self-awareness process for me, later supplemented by creative writing.

Always motivated to stay in my own power and to stay mentally and physically healthy, that too was a challenging and interesting learning process.

With my company PfeiferINTERCOACH, I now pass on all my knowledge and experience. Because I know how important it is to be taken seriously and heard when you express your needs, to be encouraged, to receive inspiring impulses and to get feedback from outside.

Working with and for people, especially the joy of experiencing their success, is and always has been a crucial aspect of my life!

I am the mother of two remarkable adult daughters, I hope I am a great mother-in-law, but in any case I am the loving grandmother of three adorable grandsons and I am happy to be the wife of a wonderful husband who has been by my side for well over half my life.

In my work, I combine neurolinguistic, systemic and creativity-oriented methods to create an insightful and effective counselling and well-being concept. My initial field of activity as a coach and consultant was, in line with my professional background as an architect, in the field of construction planning. Now, I also welcome interested professionals from other fields.

My clients benefit from a diverse and unique set of methods, in particular due to my comprehensive training as a coach and trainer. I would like to draw particular attention to my stress-relieving and resilience-promoting creative offers, namely intuitive painting and creative and therapeutic writing.

Mr Stefan Vögtle has been on board at PfeiferINTERCOACH for some time now. With his expertise as a versatile business graduate, he is the perfect addition.

I also offer my services internationally and in English.

As part of the quality assurance of my services, I regularly attend further training and professional development courses. I am a member of the Chamber of Architects and Urban Planners in Hesse (AKH), the Association of Consulting Engineers (VBI), the Association of German Master Builders, Architects and Engineers (BDB) and other professional networks. A mark of the quality of my services is my certification by the German Association for Coaching and Training (dvct), of which I have also been a member for many years.

In 2023, the international lifestyle magazine Passion Vista wrote about me:
… Ute shares a poignant message, inviting us to embrace change and seek new possibilities. She draws inspiration from Christian Morgenstern’s words, “We do not need to continue living as we lived yesterday. Let us break this view, and a thousand possibilities invite us to a new life.” Ute Pfeifer’s life story, characterized by courage, innovation, and a dedication to humanity, is an embodiment of these inspiring words, and her journey.

Coaching and counselling can be meaningful and useful for many issues, both in a personal and professional context.

Examples of such could include the following:

The methodology and methods within the process of coaching and counselling are directed towards my clients’ requirements as well as the definition of the desired goals.

I offer the following possibilities:

One-to-one session

Team session

Team workshops

Stays in the studio for expressive art
for an individual or in groups (max. 5 people)

Meetings take place in the writing studio with guidance in creative and therapeutical texting
for an individual or in groups (max. 8 people)

Equipped with the skills of a multiple way of working, both multi-perspective and flexible, I offer proven and appropriate instruments with the help of which answers can be found to the manifold challenges of the complex reality of life, in the private and professional world. The focus is always on my clients, as people with their own life stories.

Empathy, the perception of needs, appreciation and attentiveness I rate as the basis of successful cooperation.

I work with the following, often complementary tools:

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is held to be the most important concept for communication and change. Not for nothing one talks of the magic of language which is capable of enchanting us in the most positive sense and plunging us into despair in the most negative. The “programming” describes the interaction between the brain (neuro) and language (linguistic).

The systemic approach views problems as happenings in which various interacting people are involved. Interference and events are therefore regarded in a social context. Systemic thinking has opened up broad areas of activity from family surroundings to organisational development.

Special formats, e.g. integral-agile transformation design for companies and teams

Work with creative media
Stays in the studio for expressive art
Meetings in the writing studio with guidance in creative and therapeutic texting.

Creative activity often opens up new ways of getting in touch with oneself. It is not uncommon that my clients gain experiences that have a positive influence on everyday life and initiate a sound processes of change.

Mein Methodenangebot enthält nur Methoden, für die ich eine fundierte Fachausbildung an einem akkreditieren Institut, z.B. eine vom Land Hessen, Weiterbildung Hessen e.V., geprüfte Weiterbildungseinrichtung, erfolgreich absolviert habe.

With my membership in the German Association for Coaching and Training (dvct) I have committed myself to the ethical principles of this association:
www.dvct.de/verband/ethik

The respective duration of the sessions, workshops, studio stays (painting) and studio meetings (texting) as well as the total duration of the coaching and counselling sessions can be agreed individually. A complementary combination of the different sessions is possible, gladly also once the course has commenced.

Of course, I can offer the studio stays (painting) and the studio meetings (texting) as open courses and events independent of an ongoing coaching process. Check my calendar of events with its interesting suggestions.

Open courses and events, insofar as they are on offer, can be found here.

Teams are widespread both in private and in business. If they function impeccably they have a positive influence on the overall performance and economic success of an organisation.

Team members can rely on each other. They pull together and have a common understanding of what is important and what is not. They have developed a culture of joint decision-making, brainstorming and problem-solving. They work efficiently. Energies are bundled to tackle common challenges and goals rather than wasted on internal conflicts and ambiguities.

But teams can also work inefficiently, with group members causing friction due to personal desires for power, influence and self-expression coming to the fore. Teams can suffer from sluggishness, excessive striving for harmony, conservatism, diffusion of responsibility (no one is really responsible for anything), different working speeds and different styles of thinking. Often a latently aggressive way of dealing with each other starts to develop.

I am happy to identify strategies with my clients in order that their teams can develop their full potential and generate real growth and avoid or overcome crises caused by team dynamics.

Because well-performing, motivated teams interested in achieving outstanding results are indisputably one of the key factors for personal and corporate success.

TEAM – Together Everybody Achieves More

The purchase of an existing company is signed and sealed and now, with day X, the integration into one’s own company is the next step.

While in the months and weeks before the selection, the commitment between the “new” and “old” owners, the first mutual acquaintance of the future colleagues with each other, the assessment and evaluation of the extended range of services, the evaluation of the economic key figures and the first insight into the foreign organisational conditions were on the agenda, now it is about coping with drastic changes for both companies, the one taking over and the one being handed over.

In the past, this important aspect, namely the professional integration, the strategically planned merger of two companies, especially taking into account the respective corporate cultures in the overall package of the company takeover/transfer, was far too often neglected and its importance as a separate project was not recognised.

Today we know that such serious change processes, if they are not conceptually and systematically managed from the beginning, mean excessive challenges for the former and new management as well as for all employees of both companies on all hierarchical levels, avoidable strain and uncertainties in the daily work, which ultimately have a influence on the further success or non-success.

It is worth mentioning that for younger employees, the corporate culture that suits them is not an additional factor, but increasingly a main decision-making feature in their considerations when choosing a job or staying in a company.
This means that organisational and human resource development, the way people interact with each other, also in the course of the change process, has an enormously important significance.

Even though managers have a lot of experience in the field of change management, they are often deeply involved in their daily tasks, so that even if they wanted to, they have little time for careful planning and implementation of regulated change measures.

With my own experience and knowledge of such matters, I therefore see my task as a coach and management consultant to help acquiring companies as a change agent to master the challenges of a company takeover/transfer as smoothly as possible and to support the employees in many ways.

With my expertise, I ensure that the entire change process can be managed in a planned and professional manner, that it is manageable, goal-oriented and easy to cope with.

My areas of work and services:

• all important personnel issues, from the formation of new internal networks, new working groups and teams to role allocation and role design
• Defining goals and time frames
• Integration of new, added departments
• Rapid generation of synergy effects
• Implementing painful cuts if necessary
• Drawing visions for the future
• Transfer of values and implementation of a possible new corporate culture
• Answering questions, taking fears and concerns seriously and responding appropriately
• Communication design, e.g. drawing up communication plans as a communication strategy, in theinterior and exterior
• Adapting and optimising image and customer care
• Evaluating marketing and public relations activities
• Adopting best practices from both companies
• Monitoring of achievements

It would be a pleasure for me to be your advisor, sparring partner, protagonist as well as a source of impulses for necessary measures, e.g. individual discussions, workshops, trainings and sounding boards.The scope of my services can be agreed individually, also in different or several stages.

I work with recognised, professional modern methods and tools adapted to the respective needs, e.g. on the basis of integral-agile transformation design. I like to illustrate processes on the basis of the group phase model according to Tuckman and use change status concepts such as “The Valley of Tears according to Kübler-Ross”, the 8-step model by Kotter, or the ADKAR® model by Prosci®.

To give a first insight into my work, ADKAR® means:
Awareness: the awareness of the need for change.
Desire: The desire to participate in and support the change.
Knowledge: The necessary knowledge of how the change should be approached and realised.
Ability: The skills, abilities and behaviours required.
Reinforcement: The anchoring to give sustainability to the changes.

Each company involved in a merger has its own story, namely where it comes from and what has brought it to this point, the present. In its entirety, regardless of the accounting valuation, this is usually a significant treasure that is worth taking a closer look at with appreciation. A company’s yesterday defines who and what it is today and where it can develop tomorrow, with its full potential.

If you would like more information, I am available at any time for a non-binding, personal exchange. You will find my contact details in the “Contact” tab.

The stays in the studio for expressive painting are not part of a course to learn painting techniques, nor do they provide instructions to produce art. Nevertheless, the joy of artistic activity plays an essential role and you will receive valuable tips for the creation of your pictures.

It is in many ways about accepting an invitation to personal growth. Who can openly engage in intuitive painting, may really hope for new (self-)insights.

This approach generates a pleasant and supportive setting that enables the painters to “find their inner treasure” intuitively and freely, without judgement or influence, and to encounter them in artistic actions.

Self-determined, self-directed creative work is often an important contribution to a touching and impressive self-discovery.

As a coach and painting companion, I support the painters in maintaining their inner frame and focus and encourage them to trust their creativity. It usually happens that after completing a painting, the valuable painting experiences have a highly positive influence on the further path of life. Painting is always an opportunity to take a break from the usual daily routines and daily stresses. Painting makes you happy.

We paint in the studio, usually standing, with high-quality, water-soluble artists’ paint (gouache), on pinned-on, large-format paper. The paintings will neither be analysed nor interpreted nor judged by their artistic value. Artistic knowledge is not a prerequisite.
The whole value of the painting rests with the painter.

Guidelines for a stay in the painting studio

• There are no good or bad paintings
• Nothing will be classed as wrong
• No one will judge the paintings
• No one will interpret the paintings
• No one will pressurise
• In this place everyone will find their own rhythm
• Relaxation is welcome
• Everyone takes on responsibility for their own painting
• There is enough time to make your own decisions
• You may paint your special paintings
• Everyone will be taken seriously
• Everyone will be supported
• No one will be left on their own
• We will all respect each other
• In the studio we act as a group and you are part of it
• The studio is a sheltered room, a place you can count on where everyone is safe

Meetings at the writing studio with instructions on creative and therapeutic writing are an ideal opportunity to organise thoughts and feelings and put them into words. Writing can also help to discover hidden creative potential that can be of great benefit for further personal development. A self-designed text is a tangible result that can be read, revised and continued as often as you like, anywhere and at any time of day.

Experiencing your own creativity as well as the experiences gained while writing can help to develop mindful self-awareness. This is a crucial milestone on the path to reorientation and relativisation of your thoughts, ideas and views. Sometimes the insights gained in the process help to resolve stressful conflicts in an amazingly short time. Writing brings ease into your life!

No special literary skills are required. Depending on the writing topic, I provide easy-to-implement tips for using language. We generally write with a pen on paper.

With a wide range of inspiring writing exercises that are enjoyable to do, my clients receive valuable support for a loving approach to themselves. Writing exercises are thematic writing tasks that take about ten to twenty minutes to complete.

In a first confidential and informal talk I can gladly answer all of your initial questions free of charge.

Insofar as you opt for a comprehensive coaching and counselling process, you can expect, as a rule, four consecutive phases of varying duration and intensity:

1. Getting to know each other personally
2. Thorough contractual clarification with discussion on concerns and the definition of goals, signing of contract between me as coach, and client
3. Implementation phase as the active process of achieving the goals where new topics may surface
4. Review and reflection, explanation of the accomplished and the outcomes as well as a hypothetical view into the future

Remuneration is dependent on the total extent and individual wishes of the clients for their individual coaching and counselling units.

Currently, no seminars are offered in English. However, if you are interested, please do not hesitate to send an email with your request. You can find the German-language offer in the German part of this website.

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