Coaching in Vienna – In Person or Online
Coaching
Coaching helps you reflect on your own behavior. It supports you in strategically analyzing, prioritizing, and executing your goals and tasks. By leveraging your strengths effectively, you achieve your professional objectives with greater efficiency.
This is why coaching has become a cornerstone of professional development and leadership growth. Professional executive coaching originated in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Today, coaching is widely practiced across Europe and is one of the most effective approaches in the field of personal and professional development.
What Topics Does Coaching Address?
The concerns and topics our clients bring to coaching are wide-ranging. They span from building greater resilience, to navigating change processes, team conflicts, and crisis situations, to transitioning into a new role or professional environment. Some clients seek support in preparing for important job interviews, board hearings, presentations, or key meetings.
What all these situations share is the desire for professional guidance during times of personal growth and change.
Leadership Reflection: Virtually all managers benefit from professionally guided reflection on their day-to-day leadership and management behavior.
Self-Management: This includes setting goals and priorities, effective time management, and delegating tasks with confidence.
Personality Development: Based on a scientifically validated potential analysis, we create your personality profile and lay the foundation for unlocking your individual potential.
Resilience at Work: Using your personality profile, we develop targeted micro-strategies that help you handle stressful professional situations with greater composure and confidence.
Conflict Management: Leadership responsibility almost always brings conflict. Challenges that team members cannot resolve on their own are often escalated to the manager. Reflecting on these conflict situations in coaching brings clarity back to your leadership practice.
Role Transitions: Clients who are stepping into a new professional position also benefit greatly from professional coaching support during this critical phase.
Types of Coaching
The most common form is coaching for managers and senior leaders – often referred to as executive coaching or leadership coaching. When coaching is commissioned by an HR department, it is frequently called business coaching. In both cases, it involves longer-term support that leaders use for structured reflection on current professional challenges.
A variation of executive coaching is career counseling. In career coaching, your coach helps you define your professional goals and determine the next steps to achieve them. A key component of this is job application coaching.
We also offer academic coaching, supporting leaders in planning, structuring, and completing academic work such as master theses, diplomas, or dissertations.
Personality Development and Coaching
A central aspect of coaching is developing your personality. Based on an empirically validated personality test, we identify your strengths-and-weaknesses profile. With this foundation, we work systematically on further developing your strengths. This almost always leads to greater self-confidence.
Clients move beyond their comfort zone and find greater ease in their daily professional lives. In essence: personality development goes hand in hand with unlocking your full potential.
All About Coaching
Coaching - Definition
Coaching is a professionally guided, interactive, and results-oriented path to individual performance improvement. Coaching unlocks performance potential and develops the competencies that ensure strategic competitive advantage. The goal is success-oriented behavior change.
Origins of Coaching
The term coaching originates from the Hungarian village of Kocs, where a horse-drawn carriage was developed in the 15th century that was later called a “Kutsche” (coach) in German. The concept of “coaching” as transporting someone from one point to another was eventually transferred to the world of sports, and finally to the domain of business leadership.
Today, coaching can be defined as follows:
“Coaching is a professional service that supports leaders in successfully navigating the challenges of their everyday leadership reality.”
Coach - Definition
The definition of an executive coach follows accordingly:
“The executive coach helps clients reflect on their personal leadership behavior and develop it further in a targeted manner.”
What Coaching Methods Are Used?
The methods used by different coaches are as diverse as the coaches themselves. We recommend an empirically well-researched approach that consistently delivers the most sustainable results in our practice.
Appreciative Inquiry
One of the most successful methods used in executive coaching is Appreciative Inquiry. This method is typically applied in a one-on-one setting. The approach is based on the work of David Cooperrider and the psychological insights of Carl Rogers, Douglas McGregor, and Abraham Maslow. Their findings are also reflected in the principles of Positive Psychology (Martin Seligman).
This is a values-based approach to organizational development, grounded in an appreciative and non-judgmental attitude toward the client. Appreciative Inquiry has proven to be one of the most effective measures in management development, particularly during phases of change.
This method is complemented by current research findings from the fields of business psychology and behavioral economics. Recent studies demonstrate that professionally conducted coaching has a significant impact on work attitudes, goal achievement, and individual performance within organizations.
The Coaching Process
The first step in any coaching engagement is an initial consultation. This meeting is complimentary and gives you the opportunity to get a first impression of your coach. You can ask questions and share a bit about yourself and your objectives. During this conversation, you can form a good initial picture of whether you feel comfortable entrusting your professional development to this coach. After the meeting, you can take your time to decide whether to proceed with coaching.
If you choose to move forward, you have two options: focused coaching with just a few sessions to address a specific topic, or longer-term accompaniment. This ongoing coaching format is most frequently chosen by executives who value regular reflection on their leadership challenges with a professional sparring partner.
What Are the Positive Effects of Coaching?
Our clients report a range of benefits depending on their individual situation and objectives. The most frequently cited outcomes include:
Enhanced communication skills
Greater resilience: more confident handling of professional pressures
Improved feedback from colleagues, team members, and supervisors
Increased quality of life
Deeper understanding of their personality profile and related potential