How to use coaching in leadership to have more time to work on your topics.

Originally I wanted to call the article Guidance for the Lazy Manager. But that sounds nasty and doesn’t really apply. It’s more about…

Originally I wanted to call the article Guidance for the Lazy Manager. But that sounds nasty and doesn’t really apply. It’s more about appreciative leadership. Luckily, autocratic leadership styles, which use a power structures to ensure that employees get their work done, lose their importance. Instead, companies are requiring more and more “coaching skills” for their managers.

However, very few of us are a certified coach and probably only have a vague idea of ​​what coaching actually means in a management context.

I myself have had the chance to lead small and large product teams in recent years. In this article, I would like to share with you how my training to become a certified coach has changed my leadership style and how you can use elements from coaching in your everyday life as a manager.

1. Your attitude counts

Coaching someone means supporting him / her to activate potential by using available personal resources. The goal is to give them space to develop their own solutions in…