Life Coach Cologne:
Life balance and emotional intelligence is the golden key to excellent leadership
Life balance plays a central role in the demanding, often fully synchronised working day of managers. It's so simple to say and sounds unspectacular, but studies clearly show that it is the golden key to a more fulfilling life. That's the good news. This in no way means that crises and difficult times are to be avoided. Life brings us the inevitable and expects answers from us. We all experience times when life runs smoothly for a long time and then there are also confusing times with conflicts, crises or strokes of fate. I am deliberately not talking about ‘work-life balance’, because hopefully you are also living better and better at work and can realise your full potential within your area of responsibility. If not, it's time to recognise and read the signals from your feelings and your body. In all phases of life, life wants you to take responsibility for yourself and your environment. If this is (still) difficult, let's look at how it can become easier and come from the heart.
At work, you are constantly faced with demands and are in a constant stream of constant, friendly availability and even pressurising demands for top performance, while at the same time you are confronted with expectations in your personal and private life to be a reliable family member or partner, another perhaps more cheerful boyfriend or girlfriend, a better daughter, a better son, a less demanding lover. If difficulties in one area spill over into other areas of life, this can lead to a chain reaction with a domino effect. Initial signs such as exhaustion, concentration and sleep problems or social withdrawal are often indicators of an impending crisis. This is exactly where I come in as a life coach with a practice in the Cologne area and help you to reactivate your inner strengths, build mental strength and gain clarity in challenging situations and to be able to distinguish between empathy and compassion.
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Life coaching is always mental conflict coaching for top executives
Especially in top management, it is crucial to develop mental strength. You are constantly confronted with contradictions and social complexity that are difficult to endure. Exuding hope in hopeless dilemma situations, remaining energised despite clearly noticeable exhaustion, socially ‘joining in’ despite an alienated basic feeling. The basic prerequisites for fulfilling the role at the top are personal integrity, natural (and emotional) intelligence and, above all, emotional maturity in dealing with the competences assigned and the decision-making power over the areas for which they are responsible. Charisma, presence, positive energy, the ability to persuade and electrify others, a focus on results and sound judgement - all of this should serve to focus on the most important problem areas and ensure the survival of the company or organisation.
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As a provider of life coaching based near Cologne, I am your most confidential dialogue partner for finding ways to tap into your own sources of strength and deal with challenges and demands in a noticeably better way. If your sense of purpose and your focus have been lost, if there is an inner emptiness, a feeling of alienation/loss of resonance or sudden crises due to illness or other events, then it is time to pause and take a deep breath. Long-running issues such as rival feuds with unloved stakeholders can also poison your life. How do I get out of this? is the ‘hot question’ once the desire for change has arisen. The inner work is to refocus on the things that are important to you, to face your own fears, anxieties, sleep problems or other ruminations calmly and forcefully, to build up resources and utilise your own strengths. Even if it's hard to believe at first. Mental strength has nothing to do with expertise. You train mental strength in the mental powerhouse of professional life coaching, comparable to energy flows and dynamics in Asian martial arts.
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Leaders and Managers are often under great pressure to achieve constant success and maintain relationships with important stakeholders. If this is not successful in the long term, it can lead to strong insecurity and internal downward spirals that are not visible from the outside. Professional life coaching offers the opportunity to reflect on these dynamics, put up stop signs and strengthen your own resilience through targeted emotional-mental training. As a life coach based near Cologne, I act as a sparring partner and help you to focus on the next steps so that the future can bring you surprising new things. In many cases, mental conflict coaching for top executives is essentially about personal growth from a (highly) talented individual to a competent team player and manager, who is strong-willed and effective in tackling the most important things while remaining humble about the time given in this role and ultimately even on this earth.
Life and mental coaching
actively shaping change
In a world of dizzyingly stark contradictions and speed of change, it is not difficult to keep up for a while. But there comes a point when you may no longer be riding the wave. You can feel it clearly, some things you can't understand, contradict your own values and yet, as a manager, you are supposed to lead your department and your (management) team through change while remaining stable yourself. As a life coaching service provider based near Cologne, I help you to reflect on your own inner sources of strength and power, to discover previously unused resources and to become aware of your own priorities: to choose more again, to create more again, to set yourself apart more or to open up more again, these are good results of inner movements in coping with stress-inducing triggers.
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A successful life coaching process illuminates inner movements that lead to blockages and unconscious dysfunctional behavior patterns that still hinder or have hindered your success or could still block it in the future. Studies show that emotions such as anger, stress and anxiety often dominate the world of work.
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Life and mental coaching can provide you with massive support in recognizing the exact messages of these emotions and managing them better in order to remain successful in the long term and promote a positive work culture - more joy@work. The life coaching room is yours and yours alone.
Successfully take the next steps with life coaching near Cologne for key people and key positions
I also offer life coaching services for prospective managers or key people without formal management responsibility in a line organization, such as perspectives on career and change, leadership and health, blocking emotions, conflicts and crises or shaping the future. Especially when the next career step is imminent, the employer sets up a talent program, the step from program or project manager to next roles with more responsibility is pending, it is crucial to act wisely, confidently and self-confidently without excessive assertiveness. Life coaching helps you to gain clarity on how to proceed, on networking activities, on your own goals and values “Where should and could the journey go?” in order to successfully and easily master the exciting times through the challenges of the next steps and the new role. Whether as a mentor, sparring partner or trainer, Life Coaching based near Cologne offers you the support you need to reflect on professional and personal issues and strengthen your own ability to act. This enables you not only to meet the expectations of your environment, but also to keep your own needs in mind and fulfill them.
Whether you come from the region, from Bonn, Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf or from many other cities in the D.A.C.H. region - my life coaching in Cologne is available to you in person or online. If you would prefer to be coached online, we have a few things to consider, but rest assured: I can assure you from experience that it is just as competent and effective.
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