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Coach (m/w/d)

Coaches: partners for a successful career

In their job, coaches help clients, be they companies or individuals or groups or teams, to make optimal use of personal and corporate potential and to successfully overcome most challenges. Through coaching, you ensure that professionals achieve their career goals and at the same time a high degree of work-life balance. Likewise, you support companies in achieving their goals, whether annual, quarterly or monthly, and in overcoming crises or transformations.

What does a coach do?

Coaches work for companies or private clients who support them in their development - be it on an individual and private basis or on a higher level and across departments, e.g. in transformation. They help employees individually (individual coaching) or teams or departments (group coaching) to adapt to changed work situations and to resolve conflicts. In doing so, coaches use sophisticated psychological techniques and actively moderate change processes, naturally taking into account the personality traits of the employees they support.

Coaching processes may take a few sessions only or continue for several years. Regardless of their duration, they involve the following steps:

• Analysis of the current situation, possibly via shadow coaching in the customer’s everyday working life
• Elaboration of an effective development concept, including the definition of milestones
• Support with the implementation of new strategies via prompt feedback
• Review of the achievement of the objectives

Which hard skills and soft skills should coaches have?

Bei der Berufsbezeichnung „Coach“, handelt es sich nicht um eine geschützte Berufsbezeichnung – grundsätzlich steht diese Tätigkeit jedermann frei und es gibt somit keine einheitliche Coach Ausbildung. Bei der Ausbildung, die die meisten Coaches haben, handelt es sich um eine Fort- oder Weiterbildung. Angesehener sind jedoch abgeschlossene Studiengänge wie Psychologie, Wirtschaftspsychologie oder Betriebswirtschaftslehre. Um eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Coach zu starten, werden umfassendes psychologisches Wissen, insbesondere auf dem Gebiet der Verhaltenstherapie vorausgesetzt. Außerdem erweisen sich Kenntnisse der Betriebswirtschaftslehre in Theorie und Praxis als nützlich. Hinzu kommen je nach Einsatzgebiet. Projektmanagement und Kenntnisse in der methodischen (Groß-) Gruppenarbeit.

In addition, coaches need to have certain soft skills:

• Strong communication skills
• A highly analytical way of thinking
• Empathy
• Advisory skills
• Assertiveness
• Knowledge of pedagogy and didactics