Time and space for your own development – for leadership that inspires
Together we sort out your thoughts & define clear goals. Whether it’s about your leadership style, team performance or dealing with individual team members – for leadership that inspires.
Is everything else more important than your own development as a leader?
At least that’s how it often feels in stressful times. As a leader, you support your teams in team development, ensure that targets are met and do half the work for your boss. And of course you don’t want to neglect your private life either. There is no time for yourself.
But are you actually aware that this is too short-term thinking?
Because what holds you back also holds back your team. In contrast, your own personal development in your team will be multiplied many times over.
Stop spinning endlessly on the hamster wheel and standing completely still. Because at a time when changes in business are happening faster and faster, standing still is equivalent to taking a step backwards. Tackle your own challenge and discover how the effect is multiplied in the team.
Come to me for leadership coaching and allow yourself time and space for your own development. You deserve it.
Which topics are suitable for leadership coaching?
These are typical topics of my leadership coachees from the IT world and other fast-moving industries. Perhaps one of them is also your topic?
- High staff turnover and a constant shortage of employees,
- international teams with different cultures,
- remote work in different time zones,
- challenging characters in the team with a mind of their own,
- Conflicts in matrix organizations,
- a feeling of being overloaded.
You’ve probably been trying to find a solution to a similar issue for some time. But no matter what you have tried, it always fails for the same reason. You simply can’t think of any alternatives or new courses of action.
Or you know exactly how you would like to solve the situation, but at the crucial moment you just react as usual. You behave as if remote-controlled.
If this also applies to you, then my leadership coaching is just right for you.
Fluctuation
The applicant market has long since turned around. What has long been a fact in IT has now also arrived in many other sectors:
It is not the employee who applies to the company, but the company and the manager who apply to the employees.
Once you have finally found the right people, it is important to retain them – and not just for service by the book, but also for the necessary extra mile.
With classic command & control management methods such as carrots and sticks and long-term targets, highly qualified employees will quickly leave. This is because modern employees want to contribute their own ideas and opinions.
According to Gallup, 68% of employees only do their work by the book, 15% have even resigned internally due to shortcomings on the part of their manager. Depending on the study, the willingness to change is up to 60%. In contrast, emotional loyalty prevents fluctuation. According to Statista, the working atmosphere is the most important factor for company loyalty for 56% of employees.
International teams
A major challenge arises from today’s usually international or intercultural environment. Virtually every large company has locations around the world with which it regularly collaborates. In the IT sector in particular, it is common to outsource software development abroad.
Managing teams at other locations, in other time zones and/or with different cultures are additional challenges to the already high workload. Communication in particular often becomes a hurdle, as many cultures communicate much more indirectly than we Germans generally do, and a lot is also lost remotely. As a result, there is a high risk of missing crucial information.
On the other hand, diversity can also become a competitive advantage if it is used correctly.
Challenging characters
In addition to the challenge posed by different cultures, IT companies and other technical and scientific sectors have an above-average number of highly introverted employees (including autistic tendencies), which is statistically relevant.
As they find it difficult to interact with other people, it is hard to recognize what they are really thinking and how they are feeling. They find teamwork difficult and conflicts are practically inevitable.
It is then essential for you as a leader to be able to read the smallest clues “between the lines”, i.e. in body language and facial expressions. Otherwise you will miss the fact that they are already “on the go”, that they are completely overloaded, that a project will not be completed on time, etc.
Conflicts in matrix organisations
The matrix organizations with separate functional and disciplinary responsibility or line management parallel to the agile/SAFe organization, which are often common in IT, have great potential for conflict. This is because each individual employee has to report to at least two people who do not report to the same higher authority.
It quickly happens that these people are not coordinated with each other and give different instructions. Conflict is already inevitable.
The result:
Effortless leadership that inspires your team
In a word: you’re stuck
The reason? Deeply rooted patterns of behaviour, shaped by your previous experiences, which are often so automatic that you can hardly recognize alternatives on your own. But these patterns are not set in stone for all time. Many of my clients are familiar with similar situations and have found a way out.
As a coach, I offer you reflection on your behavioral patterns at eye level, making these blind spots visible. As a neutral person outside your system, I offer you the impartial space to rediscover your own leadership personality – with all its strengths and potential.
In a trusting environment, you will discover exactly what shapes your behavior and makes it difficult for you to break through habitual reactions. This gives you a lever that you can really use. This will not only give you new insights, but also a sustainable plan to continue on your path.
