Executive Coaching Vienna
Executive Coaching – with Measurable Results
Leadership starts with you. Our professional executive coaching in Vienna or online supports CEOs, managing directors, and managers in unlocking their full potential – with tangible results:
✓Enhanced performance in day-to-day leadership
✓Business growth & sustainable decisions
✓Confident behaviour in dealing with teams & conflicts
Want to lead more effectively, defuse conflicts and increase your impact?
Then take advantage of our free initial consultation – no obligation and individually tailored to your needs.
Would you like to de-risk an appointment or promotion decision? Complementing our coaching, we offer executive assessments & management audits in Vienna.
Your Benefits in Leadership Coaching
✓Space for reflection & fresh clarity in leadership
✓Assessment of your leadership style, impact & personality
✓Development of your leadership competence and conflict resolution skills
✓Building resilience in challenging situations
✓Developing concrete strategies and action points for your goals
✓Strengthening your communication and impact at all levels
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Positive Effects of Executive Coaching
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International Leaders and Expats in Vienna
A meaningful share of our executive coaching clients are international leaders — newly appointed to a senior role in Vienna, stationed here as part of a regional mandate, or building a longer-term career in Austria. Every aspect of coaching, assessment, and communication is available in fluent English, and we work across the cultural contexts of international organisations every day.
If your next chapter involves both a leadership step and an international move, we have a dedicated page with more context.
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How Does Executive Coaching Work?
As a general principle: You can attend coaching sessions in person in Vienna or online via video conference.
- At the beginning of your executive coaching, you and your coach will define your goals and development priorities.
- Often, the coaching process also begins with an individual assessment. Creating a supporting personality profile or potential analysis has proven to be particularly effective in this regard.
- We then jointly clarify your role within the company or organization. We identify stakeholders who may influence your professional development.
- Based on this analysis, we jointly set goals that optimally align with your professional and personal objectives. Finally, we design a timeline for the further course of the coaching.
Throughout the entire coaching process, we consistently work on the skills and capabilities you need to optimize your professional performance, influence, and visibility within your organization.
One-on-One Coaching for Executives: 1:1 Instead of a Seminar Room
One-on-one coaching is the most confidential form of leadership development. You work alone with your coach on precisely the questions that never reach the table in a seminar group: a difficult personnel decision, tension within the board team, your own impact in a critical negotiation, or whether your current role is still the right one.
How individual coaching differs from a seminar
A seminar builds shared language and method within a group. In one-on-one coaching there is no curriculum that has to fit everyone: the agenda comes from your own leadership reality. Nothing leaves the room, and no one is sitting at the table whom you will meet again in tomorrow’s board meeting.
Who it is for
CEOs, board members, managing directors and division heads who want a sparring partner at eye level – frequently from finance, insurance, health and the university sector, and equally for international executives and expats in Vienna. Coaching is available in English and German.
Format, location and fee
A session usually consists of one to two units of 55 minutes; a full programme averages around eight to twelve sessions over six to twelve months. We work in central Vienna, Spiegelgasse 21, or online. At C-level, the fee is EUR 480 per hour – see what executive coaching costs, discussed transparently in the free initial consultation (up to 30 minutes).
When several leaders share the same development topic, a leadership seminar or in-house training is often the more effective route. We will tell you openly which format fits your situation.
Success Factors in Coaching
The professionalism and qualifications of your coach are decisive for the success of your coaching. This includes relevant (academic) education and extensive experience in a professional environment relevant to you. Another essential factor for the success of the coaching process is the trust that the coachee (client) places in the coach. Most importantly, however, the client, their concerns, and the coach must be a good individual fit.
In addition, the following aspects should be a given:
- Working with a professional coach is characterized by discretion (confidentiality) and trust.
- The focus is on results-oriented change in your leadership behavior. The goal of executive coaching is to transform your professional behavior so that you achieve your career goals more quickly and effectively.
- Upon completion of your coaching project, the results can be measured against your targets (or your organization’s goals).
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All About Executive Coaching
Our Coaching Methods
In executive coaching, we employ a variety of techniques. These are based on internationally recognized methods, predominantly from the field of humanistic psychology. This approach was developed in the 1960s and 1970s by Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, and Charlotte Bühler.
The central idea is that the coach unconditionally accepts the client (Rogers & Roethlisberger, 1991). This approach is based on the premise that personal growth is only possible when the client can rely on the understanding, goodwill, and acceptance of their coach. Carl Rogers, one of the founders of humanistic psychology, argued that many coaching clients struggle with inner resistance or conflicts when it comes to changing their behavior. These conflicts usually have a cognitive basis but can also have an affective-emotional origin. The unconditional acceptance of the client The unconditional acceptance of the client by the coach eliminates these conflicts and thus increases the chance of success.
To provide our clients with an individual assessment, we use scientifically based personality tests. Based on these tests, we create personality profiles that provide insights into individual behavioral tendencies. Such personality profiles offer you an excellent foundation for working with your coach.
Developing and Applying Existing Strengths
However, coaching is not limited to the supportive relationship between client and coach. What matters are results. To achieve these, the coaching process focuses primarily on the active development and application of existing strengths. These strengths typically emerge in practice in connection with specific activities. Whether an activity represents a strength can be identified by two characteristics:
- You demonstrate a high level of performance in the activity.
- You experience a high level of energy while doing it.
When both characteristics are present, further development of the corresponding talent is highly promising.
Coaching Tools
The coaching method we typically employ in executive coaching – based on extensive scientific research – is called “Appreciative Inquiry“:
This technique is based on the approaches of David Cooperrider and on (business) psychological insights from Carl Rogers, Douglas McGregor, and Abraham Maslow. It is a values-based approach in 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 (executive development), particularly during phases of change.
This specific coaching method is complemented by scientifically validated personality assessments and current research findings from the fields of business psychology, social psychology, and behavioral sciences (Behavioral Economics).
THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF COACHING
Numerous studies confirm the positive impact of executive coaching. Successful results manifest on many different levels.
For instance, you can gain clarity about your professional goals and motivations.
Furthermore, coaching has an impact on both the
- cognitive (intellectual) level as well as the
- procedural level (for example, when it comes to acquiring new competencies, skills, and behaviors).
We typically observe positive coaching effects in the following areas:
- Leadership and management competence
- Conflict resolution skills
- Resilience: ability to withstand challenging professional events
- Stress reduction
- Job satisfaction
- Self-efficacy
Location
Studies show that reflecting on your professional routine is most effective when it takes place outside your usual work environment.
Our coaching sessions and leadership trainings take place at our premises at Spiegelgasse 21, 1010 Vienna. If circumstances require, sessions can also be conducted online.
Duration
Every coaching engagement is unique. The time frame is therefore as individual as the coaching and the client themselves.
Our experience shows the following: The duration of a coaching engagement can vary from a few weeks to approximately one year. On average, however, a coaching program spans eight to twelve sessions. These are typically spread over a period of six to twelve months. A coaching session usually consists of one to two units of 55 minutes each.