Coaching in presence is possible again!
Some clients or coachees have had problems with a virtual setup. They feared a lack of proxinity – for example due to unsteady and imprecise eye contact or lack of freedom of movement, due to the fixed camera, limited ability to express themselves through gestures. They may have felt fixed to their chair, forbidden to get up. And that’s why they put off their desire for coaching.
In the meantime, however, the concerns may have grown. In home office, conflicts with bosses and colleagues may have escalated; appraisals, also dialogues on further professional development, no longer took place, and thus there was no salary development. So they feel stuck on a career plateau or cut off from information. If they aren’t even worried about their job. It is now up to them to become active in their own interest again, to become the man or woman who decides their own destiny. Targeted coaching – with a good shot of advice – by me will help you with this.
Just contact me for a preliminary discussion. Via +49 172 817 92 97 or reiner@borretty.com
GROW as the basic structure of coaching
More creative methods!
I consider myself as a business coach and career coach – and as a trainer and consultant. (I presented the difference between coaching and consulting in a separate topic.)
In this respect, when I consult with my clients, I first work on topics of strategy, organization and methodology, leadership of employees and teams (and leadership of one’s own boss). But increasingly, especially in coaching, the focus is on topics relating to one’s own career. This is where the life-line method comes in via the GROW approach: walking through previous professional development. In addition, there are the special methods of coaching, such as the tree of life and tetralemma, but also role reversal and sociogram with coins.
Goal, reality, options, way forward: this is the structure of each coaching session and the progression over a few or more sessions. My job is to adhere to this structure even as a sequence. I lead along these phases or stages, hardly noticeable, but noticeable. The conversation goes back and forth, takes detours, of course – and yet always finds a clear conclusion with active projects.
The methodological basis of the coaching, including career coaching in Munich, is of course still the questioning – clear W-questions, what, how, with what, why. Of course only one question at a time. In addition, there is the broad canon of systemic questions! Again, I express my understanding here. But understanding does not mean agreement… The particular advantage of face-to-face coaching is the trusting and personal atmosphere that is now possible again. It’s also just more comfortable. A personal way of speaking, I-messages, paraphrasing are easier again. In addition, there is the verbalization of emotional experience content, i.e. addressing feelings and addressing needs. I also directly express my sympathy.
I’m guiding a sociograph with coins …
Just contact me for a preliminary discussion. Via +49 172 817 92 97 or reiner@borretty.com
