Jana Křížková
Trenér, Konzultant, Facilitátor
Something for work
Jana has worked for 20 years in one of the largest international corporations in the world. Here, she successively held many positions in the sales department – from sales representative to key account manager to positions with responsibility for overall business cooperation with key retail chains. Enthusiasm for working with people and their development is the reason why Jana decided to start transferring her experience and knowledge through various types of training. Her specialization is practical exercises and experiential form of education. In addition, she collaborates externally with VŠE, where she enjoys and is inspired by the opinions of students.
Something personal
Jana has a wonderful family, three children including a wonderful and supportive husband. She likes to learn new things and does best in the company of other people. He draws the most energy from sitting with friends with a glass of quality dry red wine. Jana loves movement and still dreams of crossing the 100 kilometer mark on roller skates. The current record is 95.2 km. The biggest scarecrow for her is boredom, routine and stagnation.
1) How would you describe your work in one sentence?
My work as a trainer is varied, requiring me to be constantly alert and working on myself, and when the participants thank me for the benefit, I live on it for another month.
2) What has influenced you in your life and how is it reflected in your work?
In elementary school I wanted to be a teacher, in high school I wanted to be a manager in a suit and in college I wanted to work with great people. I then worked for almost 20 years in various business and managerial positions in a successful American corporation, and there the idea of passing on my experience to other people matured in me.
3) Why do you work for humancraft?
A combination of great work and great people. humancraft is exacting in its expectations of the quality of the work done and at the same time offers all possible support so that I can do the work well. Colleagues at humancraft are very inspiring and fascinating - I enjoy their knowledge, experience, creativity and diversity, and working with them is fulfilling.
4) What has been your biggest challenge in humancraft so far?
To cope with training in an online environment - until then, I was betting a lot on my "personal" energy and I was afraid that I would not transfer it online. It was also a period when we had to learn to work with new tools, redo existing materials and spend a lot more energy to keep the participants satisfied.
5) What effect does your work have on your personal development and professional path?
They are connected vessels - I could not do the work of a lecturer and not educate myself. I learned to set aside time and money for self-development.
6) What do you think are the biggest challenges facing corporate education today and how is humancraft trying to address these challenges?
There are certainly more of those challenges - but I perceive weak involvement and support from the training participants' managers as the biggest. At the same time, their role in ensuring that the training really brings the expected benefit and that a change happens after its completion is absolutely crucial.