Frequently Asked Questions

• What is coaching
• How is it useful?
• Who should be coached?
• What is the difference between Coaching and Mentoring?
• What is Team Coaching?
• Is Team Building and Team Coaching the same?

What is Coaching

Coaching is essentially a conversation, a dialog between coach and coachee, within a productive, result-oriented context. Coaching helps individuals to understand better, to realize what they want to change and to develop new solutions for their problems. Putting the right questions helps individuals to access what they know. They may never have asked themselves the questions, but they have the answers. A coach assists supports and encourages the coachee to find these answers.

How is it useful?

Coaching is useful both for the individual executive and for the entire company.  Added value results from the external personal-professional guidance which allows superiority, decisiveness and leadership competence to grow. 

Benefits are:

Who should be coached?

As coaches, we help you “to get the best out of yourselves”. Motivation, openness to change and readiness to put your knowledge into practice are all crucial to your success.

What is the difference between Coaching and Mentoring?

A mentor is somebody to learn from – gives advice, shares experience and knowledge

A coach is somebody to learn with – asks questions, challenges, reflects and helps to find the unique solution that fit to the specific situation of the coachee and his possibilities.  Coaching is a tailor-made program.

What is Team Coaching?

If you want to improve team performance, team coaching offers a quick, effective and economical way to get more from your people. Using solutions focus techniques, you will soon have everyone drawing on their strengths to work more collaboratively and purposefully together.

 When we work with teams, we start by encouraging evaluation and recognition of the ‘jewels’ already in place. This gives a stable foundation of competences, experiences and resources that already exist. Once the team is clear what the starting point is we can help it build on this to:

• enhance trust in each member of the team
• take responsibility and make commitments
• implement team processes
• solve conflicts constructively
• create methods for continuous team learning
• awaken and capture the creativity of the team

Is Team Building and Team Coaching the same?

Team building and Team coaching help to improve the cooperation and performance of a team. Both expressions are used often simultaneously.

Team building is based often on exercises and games and in the debriefing discussion conclusions are taken for the real life situation on the job. They create a sense of community and getting to know one another better which is definitely useful.

In our Team coaching we work straight at the topics which are relevant for the team. Solution Focused Team Coaching builds on strengths, draws out people’s know-how – and enables them to share it effectively in the service of outstanding results. It enables the managment to draw on individual talents and the abilities of the group, without wasting time and money on unnecessary ‘diagnostic instruments’.

Unlike programs that merely try to fix the broken pieces, Team Coaching  builds on the strength of the team as a system.

“A team is not a problem that needs to be analysed and solved but a potential to be unfolded”– Daniel Meier, author Team Coaching