A customer’s voice about the Executive Coaching experience
Listen to the interview with Karl Knipfelberg, VP at Kion, talking about his experience working with Bernhard as his coach
Empowerment with a coaching attitude
Empowerment has been around for a very long time. It's often missunderstood as straight delegation of tasks. To make it really work it requires leaders being a coach! Let me show you how...
New thinking for coaching Agile Teams
Effective team coaching has to focus more on the distributed competencies in the collective Depending on the industry, most companies experience what it means to operate in a [tooltip text="Volatility-Uncertainty-Complexity-Ambiguity"]VUCA[/tooltip] driven market. In order to keep up with these dynamics and uncertainties organisations are changing…
Advancing your leadership in the virtual world – Part 2 – Self leadership
Self leadership is a key competency for sustainable and impactful leadership in a virtual context As announced in the opening blog post of this series this is the first of seven competencies I want to present, and reflect on how you can develop this further…
Advancing your leadership in the virtual world – Part 1 – Introduction
THE 7 key competencies which make you highly effective as a virtual leader Looking into larger organisations and how their structures have evolved over the past years I see the dispersion of functions and their teams across sites, national or global, as the norm. As a response…
Management and Leadership are both needed!
It is important to pay attention to both the short AND longer term In my work over the years I noted that a lot of companies, people and organisations use the words management and leadership interchangeably. However, as pointed out by several big thinkers and…
Focus – the gateway to effective and efficient work patterns
Creating focus through mindfulness - an experience with senior leaders On a regular basis my coaching clients bring up the theme of becoming more effective or efficient in their job. In some cases it's as simple as rebuilding the awareness for prioritisation and proper time…
Choose your own perspective: be a drone!
Stepping out of the actual situation and change perspective really helps your personal development Over more than 25 years I had the privilege to work with people on issues related to their personal development. Moreover, in this period I also developed my own personal leadership,…
Don’t let the shadow of one personal value become too large
Exaggerated focus on a single value bears the risk of creating an imbalance in leadership behaviour Working as a coach I experience sometimes phases where clients from different industries or organisational levels bring the same challenge into the conversation. In recent weeks, such a theme…
Inspiration through metaphors from nature
How nature created one of my best coaching experiences In my work as a coach in organisations I usually meet my clients in meeting rooms or in a virtual setting also indoors. Very early on I learned to be cautious in the selection of such…
In need of new leadership
We live and work in "VUCA" surroundings Many companies are operating in a business context which is more volatile than ever. Uncertainties of market dynamics have been boosted through America’s steps towards trade wars. With all the complexity we face in a global economy and…
Emotional Intelligence: essential for outstanding leadership
Although high IQ is a must have to be successful in your job, a high EQ, emotional intelligence, is the factor required to stand out as a leader. The concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) has been spread widely since the mid 1990’s partly due to…
Looking for answers and inspiration: visit the Why Café!
Recently I was asking myself some questions related to decisions I want to take in my working life. Moreover, I was looking for some inspiration to get a different look at the questions I asked myself. And then … a nice book came across my…
Have your finger in the P.I.E. – Part 2
Three dimensions to manage your career in an organisation In part 1 of this blog, last week, I have introduced the PIE-model, developed by Harvey Coleman, based on research he did on the dynamics of careers in organisations. Here is a quick re-cap: Harvey Coleman…
Have your fingers in the P.I.E. – Part 1
Three dimensions to manage your career in an organisation Recently the question how to best manage one's career has surfaced several times in my coaching engagements. These clients held firm beliefs that their performance would speak for themselves and foster their career. In addition, they…
Vision: the power pack for Virtual Leaders
How I made my leadership more impactful when leading remotely Leading over a distance in today’s reality bears risks and challenges which can have a negative impact on the effectiveness of a leader. Because of the omnipresent high workload, the natural reaction of the human…
How mindsets make big differences: knower vs. learner
The mindset shift that helps you to be more effective as a person and leader Different mindsets I want to share some thoughts with you on mindsets that drive our behaviour especially in relation to how we deal with the external world. This is important…
