Coaching methods

I don’t know you when we start working together.

I don’t know your personal circumstances, your colleagues, your family or partner, your situation at work and your professional background, your personal values and goals. This will remain your area of expertise, you are the owner of your destiny.

One of my personal strengths is to walk in your shoes after a short period of collecting information and to look at your situation from your point of view. My professional background allows me to understand a wide range of difficulties very quickly and with empathy.

Apart from that I have been trained to picture how your colleagues, partner, family and friends are reacting to your particular situation. In order for you to understand your role and position regarding the issues you are addressing with me, I am often using visual aids like playmobil figures, posters and pictures and metaplans.

At the beginning of our work I am the expert in asking questions. I have been trained to ask questions that leave both of us with a better understanding of your situation and provide a wider perspective. These questions usually focus on how things could change, what the particular changes look like, how you and people around you would notice small changes, what that would mean for everyone and what obstacles are usually in your way in achieving your goals. Since I am not a magician you will remain the expert for what works best for you.

Coaching, from my professional and personal perspective, is a process of finding, developing and enhancing your sleeping strengths and resources to the full potential. In order to facilitate a situation that provides you with useful input, I am looking at your situation from bird’s eye view in order to see the strengths and resources that you might have overlooked or haven’t explored yet. I am using hypno-systemic techniques, like developing hypothetical pictures and short films together creating a solution that allows you to develop positive habits. To make the results of these sessions more tangible for you, we can tape these sessions for you to take home. Sometimes I do assign homework to encourage you in releasing your unconscious resources and possibilities. Everything is already there.

I am always fascinated that most of my customers manage to solve problems that initially seemed unsolvable and find a way in making the impossible finally possible. Since I am an expert in finding new perspectives, customer’s feedback frequently sounds like “This is completely new to me.......I have never looked at things this way........This is one way of looking at this.....”. As a result of my particular training I am conducting our conversations in a way that enables you to discover new possibilities and perspectives. One of my favorite techniques to visualize an outside perspective is designing a poster with your inner voices or inner team.

Last but not least, I always appreciate a good sense of humor. Looking at difficult situations with humor makes dealing and coping with unpleasant people or circumstances much easier.