Coaching Skills for managers – doing less, achieving more

“It’s not about doing more. It’s about doing things from a transformed state of mind”

This quote stems from a manger shared during the initial training of our program “Coaching Competence for Managers”. She said it after having an deep “aha” moment during a role play. But why then are coaching skills for managers still so controversial? After all, managers already have so much on their plates! When are they supposed to cover on a coaching role, too?

My colleagues Claudia Amend and Sabine Freund from the Munich Coaching School, and I view the developmental role of the coaching leader as follows:

• Psychological knowledge & models: Helping understand human ambivalence toward change.
• Holding the space: Being present, combining appreciative listening with powerful questioning techniques.
• Self-awareness: Understanding one’s own resources and obstacles to better empathize with employees, colleagues, and superiors.
• Delivering feedback: Structuring and conveying critical feedback effectively for development.

Leadership is, first of all self-leadership

For conducting conversations with this growth mindset, you have to balance the managerial role with its inherent judgments, interpretations and a mind that is used to giving solutions more over than asking powerful questions. This balance for switching hats needs of course self-leadership. But self-leadership is the fundament to every leadership role, anyway.

So, how do you learn to shift between these hats, especially under tight schedules and fast pace? These are the most common questions at the start of the program. Here are some answers: Practice helps leaning into a mindful focus. Slowing down just a bit. Engaging more with your body and breath. Learning to calm down with purpose. Becoming precise in your perception and communication. These simple methods create a new, conscious form of leading with more mindful efficiency. In a nutshell: you do less and you achieve more! With coaching skills, you learn competencies you need in a fast and disruptive company’s culture anyway.

Our program is available for leaders, project managers, agile coaches, consultants, and HR business partners. On top, you can get certified with this program as an ICF Coach. We offer this training in German and English, in Munich and online.

For further information, please visit www.talkingtime.de and www.munichcoachingschool.de.

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