genuine interest in you and partnership with your best interest in mind
It’s time: Until now, everything seemed just about fine in your professional and private life. But now you notice that things have changed or need to change. However, what exactly is going on and where do you start? Perhaps you are stuck and don’t know which direction to take? Times of transition are often challenging and can be associated with uncertainty and stress.
Life is not the way it’s supposed to be, it’s the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.“
(Virginia Satir 1916–1988)
The good news: Dealing with challenges and difficult situations can be learned. As a coach and team developer, I support you in setting the course for real change.
Services
I support individuals and teams in breaking old patterns and shaping new scope for action – in German or English, in person or virtually – whichever suits your needs. Coaching is a joint discovery journey and the topics are as diverse as the people.
Individual coaching
Life coaching:
In coaching with me, you gain distance from your current circumstances and understand what is happening inside and around you. You get to know your inner saboteurs, understand how you hold yourself back, and how you can tap into your own resourcefulness to move towards greater freedom and success. And you discover further perspectives from which new possibilities for action emerge. What do you really want and need? Be curious about what you will discover for yourself.
Topics
- Gaining orientation for a new stage in life
- Getting back into the driver’s seat of your life
- Gaining new-found confidence in decision-making in uncertain situations
Business Coaching:
As a professional, you are challenged every day, exposed to sometimes conflicting demands from different sides, and all this in a corporate environment that is constantly changing – how can you successfully strive to be your best in this complexity, and at the same time remain healthy and positive as a person?
Coaching Topics
Coaching Topics
- Building mental resilience at work (stress management, life balance)
- Shaping your professional role as an expert or people manager
- Developing your personal leadership style
- Recognizing your potential and actively developing your career
- Managing conflict situations with superiors, colleagues or employees
Case study
Leadership coaching
- Client: Spanish team leader in the service department of a global IT company
- Initial situation: 100% home office in pandemic times, complex projects, permanent stress and high workload, first health symptoms
- Goal: better life balance, get out of the stress and monotony of home office
- Approach: Virtual coaching over a total of seven coaching sessions to explore the internal and external dynamics of the situation, practicing new behaviours in between sessions (delegation, changed work organization, being able to say no, setting priorities, feedback, mindfulness exercises, organizing breaks and variety)
- Result: noticeable relief, clearer decision-making and leadership for the team,
Career coaching
- Client: Senior Sales Manager
- Initial situation: potential and desire for career move
- Goal: Development plan for the next 2-3 years to prepare for role change
- Approach: Potential analysis, strengths and weaknesses profile, alignment of values, motivation and existing experience with goals and options, strategic network analysis (who can help me and how? How to build my network? How to become visible?)
- Result: Career move into extended regional responsibility, visibility on the board of directors.
Team development
New corporate strategy, reorganization, merger with other teams, change processes, staff changes, loss of trust as well as accelerated demands from day-to-day business or conflicts: All of these circumstances can be triggers for readjusting the team’s direction, rethinking cooperation within the team and with others in the organization, and for realigning existing processes.
Topics
- Defining a common path forward with shared vision, strategy, goals and roles
- Finding new ways of collaboration (how do we work effectively within our own team and with other teams as well? How do we make best use of virtual tools in an international environment?)
- Using conflicts in the team constructively
- Shaping merger processes (how can the best of both worlds come together? What are the biggest stumbling blocks and what are the most important resources that everyone in the team can rely on, even in difficult situations? What do we stand for? How can we all pull together?)
Case study
Merger and realignment of corporate team
- Customer: Team of 35 people, central service area IT company
- Initial situation: team members have so far been operating very independently in their respective countries and only know each other virtually.
- Goal: International team of highly specialized experts should grow together to form a European corporate team
- Approach: Interviews, team workshop with playful outdoor elements and joint vision work, new arrangements for regular exchange and mixed cross-country teams
- Result: Increased trust across national borders and specialist teams, new collegial forms of trusting, collaboration through proactive relationship management
Conflict moderation
- Client: Team of 11 people, public service
- Initial situation: Conflicts between “old” and “new” employees, mistrust, negative atmosphere
- Goal: Appreciative and constructive communication in the team, positive leverage of differences, new trust and improved communication between management/team
- Approach: Interviews, survey, team workshop with facilitated dialogue, self-reflection and feedback exercises, follow-up meeting 3 months later.
- Result: noticeable change and concrete agreements on jointly defined topics.
Team development
- Client: Team leader with a team of 6 people, IT company
- Initial situation: Team leader new in leadership role (“from colleague to leader”), team of experienced technical experts, currently heavy workload and growing demands from day-to-day business, hidden conflicts, growing anger and resistance to leadership style
- Goal: Pull together as a team, constructive feedback and openness in dealing with each other, improved result orientation instead of preoccupation with oneself
- Approach: Interviews, moderated leadership feedback (virtual), concrete agreements on future collaboration, individual coaching of manager around communication
- Result: increased understanding of different perspectives, manager adapted communication style, more ease in cooperation
About me
For more than 25 years, I have been supporting people on their professional and personal development journeys as a coach, team developer and facilitator. My diverse and intercultural experiences flow into my coaching work and shape my way of working.
What you can expect from me:
Profile
- Consulting, design and implementation of global learning journeys and leadership development, performance and high potential programs, succession planning, talent management as well as support of change processes (Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants)
- Individual coaching of executives and top talents on the topics of personal presence and leadership style, political positioning in the company, team leadership, conflict, life balance, and next career moves
- Team and department workshops with groups of up to 50 people on the topics of strategy, realignment, culture change, process design
- Studies in Social Science (Munich), Master’s in Management Communication (Boston, USA)
- Training in coaching (DBVC certified), facilitation, various potential assessment methods (Hogan Assessment, KornFerry Leadership Solution), 360° Feedback, Design Thinking, Appreciative Inquiry, Positive Intelligence
Contact
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