Employment relationships nowadays have become rather unsteady as formerly stable professional structures alter with rapid innovations in knowledge, changing work methods and new technologies. Mere technical knowledge of any profession is no longer sufficient to master the fast occurring social changes accompanied by new complexities of issues.
Here, coaching serves to identify these issues on a personal and/or structural basis. Coaches assist in a very individual manner in promoting skills to handle working relationships and thus they ultimately also aid to reach corporate goals in a better, more effective as well as faster way. They have their clients work on their own solutions and thus serve as a catalyst. At the end of a professional coaching process the client will have also gained better self-reflection and self-awareness which aids to master future challenges of the working environment. Any good Coach should therefore have a profound background in psychology as well as an understanding of managerial concepts.
This talk will focus on possible scopes of coaching as well as its implications for teamwork and leadership. Next, I will talk about the effectiveness of coaching and how to transfer the newly learnt skills into daily business routine. In the end, the audience should leave with a thorough understanding of the possibilities of professional coaching. Should they ever need to choose a coach themselves, they will also be equipped with practical tools to discern a professional from a layman.
About the Presenter
Ulrike Röthig, qualified psychologist and second-year student, Business Sciences
Ulrike Röthig has studied Psychology and takes a great interest in communication as well as conflict management. She took further education to become a coach and was self-employed for a couple of years. Now, she is in her fourth term as a student of business science at TU Dresden. She believes that in order to understand and help management as well as employees it is also necessary to gain a thorough understanding of the complexities in business within this globalized world. She wants to work as a trainer for leadership and management with a special interest in small and medium-sized companies.
THEORY MEETS PRACTICE 