Business coaching

What is business coaching with the Red Thread?

Business coaching with the Red Thread always invites you to look at the “big picture.”

The keywords “personal coach business” or “personal and business coach” say it all: it’s about no longer separating business and professional responsibilities from personal issues.

Often, it is relationship issues—whether with yourself, your partner, or others—that affect your professional life and, of course, vice versa.

At Roter Faden, we work on the basis of the teachings of Prof. Wolfgang Mewes, among others.

Based on competencies and specific personal characteristics, personal development is always about subjective and objective bottlenecks.

Subjective bottlenecks are those issues that cause immediate “pain” and which we assume are responsible for blockages of whatever kind. Provided there is sufficient openness, we look together at what the objective bottlenecks might be and then work precisely with these.

We do not seek “aspirin solutions” at Roter Faden but we look for the root causes. 

Why business coaching?

This should answer the question of why business coaching – and, in a way, also the question of “when business coaching?”: It starts to make sense and become useful when you begin to suspect that piecemeal efforts are not getting you anywhere. A quick communication training session here, some negotiation coaching there, and three videos or podcasts on leadership techniques and team building thrown in… that’s exactly what we mean by “quick fixes.”

Many managers then come across as artificial and “fake,” and your teams quickly notice whether they are authentic or not. The same applies figuratively to all other areas of life, such as relationships.

What are the benefits of business coaching?

Frankly, that depends on how courageous you are. If you have the courage to start with yourself, if you are willing to dive deep into yourself, then this can lead to a small inner revolution: You will face your external world and your challenges in a much more authentic way and solve the latter much more easily and better than before.

Personal growth can go hand in hand with all of this, which in the most positive sense radiates into all areas of life. It may be that your priorities shift, it may be that you rethink your current career direction and decide to reposition yourself.

Or you may even deepen them and approach things with new vigor and a whole new motivation. If you are ready to not only realize that “everything is connected,” but also what that means for you, then a quality of life will emerge that feels truly new—and truly authentic.

I can accompany you on this journey, either as a “personal & business coach Berlin” or as “Business Online Coaching,” completely independent of location. And, if you like, of course also in English.

Let’s get in touch – write to me at hh@roter-faden-coaching.de! I look forward to getting to know you.

Executive coaching

Two different perspectives

There are three aspects to leadership: corporate leadership, employee leadership, and self-leadership. ♦ Blog: Three aspects of leadership

Against this backdrop, executive coaching can be viewed from two different perspectives: on the one hand, coaching for executives in a company and, on the other hand, for executives who are looking for coaching for themselves personally.

Or it can be viewed from the perspective of the company:

If you have a medium-sized company and, as an entrepreneur, want your managers (and of course yourself) to speak the same language, then it makes sense to go through joint coaching with everyone – this may involve, among other things, what the company goals and philosophy mean for each individual: How can these be “broken down” into individual areas of responsibility so that both the importance of the respective responsibilities and the company’s goals are met?

How can the individual strengths and special qualities of those involved be best utilized?

Truly serious executive coaching includes management; in fact, in this case, it should even come first. And when pursued and implemented consistently, this is the best approach for promising change management throughout the entire company.

What is coaching for managers?

Coaching for managers – with the common thread – views you as a whole person.

Either you don’t lead at all, but simply incorporate slogans and random “techniques” from leadership seminars into your behavior, and you lead through your external status. Team leader, senior team leader, group leader, department head, division manager, board member.

Fine – but people will soon notice.

So don’t be surprised if leadership doesn’t work, or if you only get people on your team who tell you what you want to hear but shine more through intrigue than competence.

Or you can lead as a human being, as the person you are, with all your being and all your experiences. This includes, hopefully, lively and active further development and the will to get to know yourself, as well as the willingness to develop yourself. Then it becomes an exciting journey. A journey that will allow you to grow and become an authentic personality.

“Leadership” comes from the Old High German root faran, which means “to set in motion” – you can hear and see the common origin with the word “fahren” (to drive). Coaching for managers is not about fixing you and turning you into something other than what you are, but about finding yourself. If you then lead from within yourself, from your personal inclinations and strengths, this may be completely different from what your colleague or the team leader from another department does.

At Roter Faden, we like to work with the so-called TYPUS profile and the even more powerful Team Management System (TMS(R)) according to Marguerison and McCann.

These two profiles complement each other perfectly and provide excellent support on the path to getting to know yourself.

Both are important: finding your own authenticity and leading from it. And at the same time, treating the people in your own team in exactly the same way, namely as highly individual personalities. If you like, this results in as many leadership styles as you have people in your team.

Truly good leadership is challenging and can be very rewarding – write to me at hh@roter-faden-coaching.de !  And we’ll find out what your desired topics and bottlenecks are.

Leadership styles

A common topic in executive coaching is the question of choosing leadership styles.

The classic distinction is as follows:

Authoritarian leadership style

The supervisor says exactly what to do and also “how.”

Deviations are not welcome.

Laissez-faire leadership styles

There is only a rough guideline, then the expression applies, namely “just let them do it” — there is hardly any intervention.

Cooperative leadership style

Goals and implementation are developed in collaboration with employees.
The focus is on the common good and allowing employees to participate in the decision-making process.

What do we recommend?

None of the three mentioned, at least not exclusively. Based on my own experience and that of many managers I have had the privilege of coaching, it is more a matter of really adapting to each employee individually.

What is helpful is to take into account the employee’s maturity in the task and the employee’s maturity as a person, as well as their aptitude profile, if available, while at the same time “building” a clear common thread from the outset towards less control and more trust, as well as towards responsibility and personal accountability.

And finally, your own personality also plays a role – this allows you to develop your own unique, personal leadership style.

Management seminars

In-house seminars for managers are also available from Roter Faden on request.

In contrast to other management seminars, these are very much geared towards a ‘workshop’ format. This means that, at the beginning of such a project, we naturally clarify in detail what the goals are, what is to be conveyed, and what the motivation is.

The topics of communication, negotiation, leadership, team development, strategy and practical implementation, as well as personal development and time management, are the areas in which I can help you and from which we can generate the headlines.

Roter Faden does not stand for piecemeal approaches (“do a communication seminar, the office staff isn’t working as it should!”), but for a holistic view.

Seminar programs and workshop series only make sense if they are clearly integrated into the overall corporate goals and if management is on board—almost everyone knows the saying “the fish stinks from the head”—just do it differently.

At Roter Faden, such events always focus on the intensive involvement of all participants – and in-house seminars at Roter Faden are characterized by a high degree of interaction, with topics actually being worked out together.

This approach takes into account, among other things, that there are naturally a wide variety of prerequisites in terms of prior knowledge and experience.

However, the most important thing is practice – practical relevance and practical implementation always come first.

If you are interested, let’s talk about your topics – write to me and we will arrange an introductory meeting: hh@roter-faden-coaching.de 

Let’s have a chat what I can do for you – write to me at hh@roter-faden-coaching.de and we’ll arrange a ZOOM-meeting.

I look forward to meeting you.

Do you also need a companion who challenges you and lets you “go back and forth” on topics so that new perspectives and ideas can emerge?

Let’s talk about it and find out if we are a good fit for each other!