coaching: my working manners

on the phone...

I am a specialist for challenging situations. I support people in difficult professional or personal situations:

• coping with major private or workplace changes
• handling conflicts with staff, colleagues, supervisors, business-partners, family-members, friends
• overcoming motivational blockades and performance issues
• assuming new tasks or greater responsibility
• problems arising from insufficient communication-, conflict management- and (self-) leadership competencies

As boxing-fan I define my role as that of a sparring-partner: Someone who challenges you exactly to the extent necessary to successfully master the upcoming challenge.

The methodologies I use stem from the third and fourth generation of psychotherapeutical schools and are very modern and effective:

• Dr. Dietmar Friedmann's Integrated Solution-focused Psychology (ILP)
• Dr. Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication (NVC)

ILP combines a process-oriented personality model with de Shazer's solution-focused brief therapy, Erickson's systemic-energetic therapy and Grinder & Bandler's advanced NLP. It is therefore extremely effective and efficient.

NVC has been developed about 30 years ago by Dr. Marshall Rosenberg - an internationally well-known conflict mediator. With nonviolent communication we can adress our needs directly and clearly while reducing the risk of defensive reactions or "counter-strikes".

Occationally I also work with Schulz von Thun's Inner Team Model and with Wolfgang Mewes' Bottle-Neck-focused Strategy (EKS).

The single coaching-sessions usually last between 1 and 2 hours. They take place either face-to-face in my coaching-room in the center of Karlsruhe (Karl-Friedrich-Straße 14), at your workplace or on the telephone - during the day or in the evening or on the weekend. The number of sessions and the intervals between the single sessions depend on your problem and our agreement.

After many years of coaching I value the benefits of telephone-coaching more and more: geografical independence, greater temporal flexibility, less distraction due to superficialities, a higher degree of anonymity due to the "face protection". Living far away from Karlsruhe is therefore not necessarily an obstacle.