Coaching – just a Fad?

Coaching as a supreme discipline of developing people

In my view, coaching is a privilege. An elaborate, thought-out and effective method for the development of individuals and teams, new perspectives, for improving individul contribution, performance and to clarify issues. Coaching is the ultimate, supreme discipline in HR & staff development.

For executives and leaders, coaching is a very sense-making approach for the enhancement and building of capabilities and behaviours in order to reach the next rank of responsibility. Coaching helps mastering new levels of experience and leadership. It helps to clarify concerns, change attitudes, come to new insights and to change perspectives.

Apart from the normal coaching process, Bachmann Analytics offers a form of specialised coaching and training on the job. This is especially of interest to multinationals, as this particular coaching (coupled with training) helps managers to cope with diversity and inter-cultural awareness. Bachmann Analytics particularly coaches and traines with a special impetus in the fields of business ethics, fraud-prevention, CSR and governance.

Coaching is individual, supporting, and clarifying. Coaching is always results- and solutions orientated and will coachees to the next level; particularly in crisis or mission-critical situations and demanding circumstances. It strives to develop and enhance self-reflection, it changes perspectives and views, and, most important, coaching changes experience and behaviour. In change situations, coaching helps to build new change agents, who act exemplary and as role models.

Bachmann Analytics coaching principles and philosophy are based on systemic & constructivist/ interpretivist approaches as well as relational coaching (as promoted with the Ashridge Master in Executive Coaching).