Coaching as a management tool

Advise - encourage - motivate

This training is held in German.
As a manager, you are also responsible for encouraging and supporting other people in achieving their goals. One way to do justice to this demanding task is to integrate selected coaching elements into your personal management style. Find out how you can use special coaching methods to increase the potential and personal responsibility of your employees. This will take the pressure off you in your own leadership work and enable you to fulfill your leadership role competently and according to the situation.

Contents

Basics of coaching

  • What is coaching anyway?
  • When is coaching useful and when is it not?

The role of the manager as a coach

  • Is there a need for a clear role change between manager and coach?
  • What expectations are placed on me as a manager for successful coaching?
  • Does my leadership behavior/style match the coaching?

Prerequisites for successful coaching

  • Check your own clarity and attitude.
  • Creating a trusting and supportive relationship.
  • Empathy as the key to understanding employees' points of view.

Targeted management of coaching discussions

  • He who asks, leads: using targeted questioning techniques to analyze problems.
  • Active listening.
  • From the problem to the goal - designing a clear mission statement.
  • Taking a step back and actively steering the conversation at the same time.

Taking a close look at yourself

  • Reflection on your own values, convictions and attitude.
  • How do my thought patterns affect my behavior?
  • To what extent can I as a manager be my own coach?
  • Compare self-image and external image through feedback from trainer and group.

What can be achieved through successful coaching?

  • Z. E.g. promotion of Employees' personal responsibility, constructive resolution of conflicts, motivation and increased efficiency, reduction of uncertainty and blockages in change processes.

Work on coaching examples from the participants' practice

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

Due to the small number of participants, this intensive training course will provide you with the specific knowledge you need to integrate coaching elements into your management practice in a targeted manner. You will learn how to

  • use the most important coaching techniques for effective appraisal interviews,
  • be able to advise employees, especially in difficult and complex situations, and
  • encourage Employees ' personal responsibility through motivating and solution-oriented interventions, thereby reducing their own workload.

This training promotes your self-reflection. As a result, you can also use the coaching tools to further develop your own leadership personality.

Methods

In-person events

Small group and individual work with plenary exchange, theoretical input, work on practical cases of the participants, feedback from trainer and group.

Live online events

Small group and individual work with plenary exchange, theoretical input, work on practical cases of the participants, feedback from trainer and group.

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Recommended for

Managers who want to optimize their leadership behavior with the help of coaching elements.

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Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG, Waldenbuch

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Using coaching as a management tool

Managers are responsible for Employees to support and encourage them to achieve their goals. Malu Salzig, trainer, coach and consultant of Haufe Akademie , shows you how to specifically integrate selected coaching elements into your personal leadership style. What exactly is coaching, which elements are included, and what do you want to achieve with it? First of all: Coaching is [...]

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Using coaching as a management tool

Managers are responsible for Employees to support and encourage them to achieve their goals. Malu Salzig, trainer, coach and consultant of Haufe Akademie , shows you how to specifically integrate selected coaching elements into your personal leadership style. What exactly is coaching, which elements are included, and what do you want to achieve with it? First of all: Coaching is [...]

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01.07.2025
Hamburg
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Düsseldorf
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Frankfurt a. M.
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