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Whether through in-person or virtual sessions—or even through support in day-to-day practice—coaching is the most effective path to rapid and sustainable individual development. It enables goal-oriented self-reflection, encourages a shift in perspective, and helps coachees break recurring behavior patterns and develop new, more effective ones.

 Anne-Christin Herhold

Anne-Christin Herhold

Senior Managerin & Partnerin

herhold@imap-institut.de

+49 (0) 211 513 69 73 28

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Growth squared – Coaching enables leaders to deeply examine their personal behavior patterns and purposefully pursue individual development in a way that fits the context and the matter at hand.

A core element of the IMAP coaching approach is:

Goals

In the coaching process, clear goals must be defined—that is, thinking in terms of the desired outcomes.

Practical orientation

The coachee should quickly move into action. The goal is to reflect on typical situations in a solution-oriented way, analyze them, and develop alternatives that can then be tested and reassessed.

Support

As coaches, we can initiate and support the development process, offering context-sensitive impulses—while the coachee remains responsible for finding their own solutions. IMAP coaches shape the process and methodological framework, thereby providing ‘help for self-help’.

Deeply ingrained behavior patterns can be especially effectively identified, analyzed, and developed through shadow coaching. In this form of coaching, IMAP coaches accompany the coachee in their day-to-day work, gaining highly dense and saturated observational data. This serves as a rich basis for meaningful feedback and evaluation sessions.

Support in the professional environment allows the coachee’s behavior to be reflected on-site and immediately after a specific work situation. This enhances the learning effect and enables new behaviors to be tested directly within the same or a similar context.

Possible coaching topics include:

Preparing for the assumption of leadership responsibilities,

Strengthening resilience,

Introducing new leadership concepts,

Engaging with change and transformation.

The impact

New perspectives and ways of thinking are opened up.

New skills or techniques are tested as an expansion of the individual’s behavioral repertoire.

Progress toward goals is regularly evaluated, new impulses for change are introduced, and as a result, barriers are overcome more quickly and new, effective behaviors are learned.