Coaching
You are expected to lead. Nobody really taught you how.
Academic careers prepare you to become increasingly independent in your field. Then, often quite suddenly, your work starts to depend on other people.
You supervise researchers. You hire staff. You set priorities, give feedback, distribute resources and make decisions that affect other people's work. You may lead people whose expertise is different from your own, manage collaborations across organisational boundaries or find yourself responsible for a group whose ways of working developed long before you arrived.
Some of these situations are straightforward. Others leave you thinking about the same conversation, decision or problem long after you have left the office.
Leadership coaching gives you a structured place to work on them.
Practicalities
How we work together
Before starting coaching, we have a free 15-minute online conversation. You can tell me briefly what you want to work on, ask questions about coaching and decide whether you would like to work with me. I also use this conversation to make sure that your concern falls within my professional scope.
Coaching sessions can take place online or in person in Vienna. They normally are between 50 and 90 minutes.
At the beginning of each session, we agree on what you want to work on and what would make the conversation useful. You determine the goals and decisions. My role is to help you sharpen the question, examine the situation from different perspectives, recognise resources and possibilities, and develop options you can test in practice.
Coaching focuses on professional situations and future action. It is not psychotherapy or a substitute for psychotherapy.