Managing director coaching in the middle class
Coaching for managing directors
I am Sabine Walter, a successful entrepreneur and experienced manager. My aim is to help you progress as a person and in your role. With the Managing director coaching you gain a confidential framework for discussing issues critical to success.
I see myself as Sparring partnerwhich Impulses and a external perspective in analysing and clarifying professional situations.
Book an introductory meetingExecutive coaching for managing directors in medium-sized companies
Personal development | Leadership | Transformation management | Generational change in family businesses
25+
Years of professional experience
10 years of industry
4000+
Coachings
DE | ENG | FRZ
15+
Years of coaching experience
ICF-certified
Your benefit
Concrete results
in a short time
Your executive coach for personal development, leadership and transformation management
Sabine Walter, Executive Coach
I am an entrepreneur with head and heart, an ICF-certified coach and an experienced manager.
After studying business administration in Germany and France, I worked in industry for almost 10 years in various specialist and management positions. Since 2008, I have been very successfully advising, coaching and developing medium-sized companies and their managers.
Expert for leadership and transformation processes
I learnt about entrepreneurship, leadership and turnaround management at the Bertelsmann Group. As a division manager there, I was responsible for realigning a division and making it profitable.
Understanding teams and organisations systemically and starting at the points that enable rapid development was already a gift of mine back then. I have developed this further in various training courses and during my more than 15 years as a consultant.
In my work, this skill helps me to quickly familiarise myself with the company in question.
Personality
- Thinking and acting entrepreneurially
- thinking strategically
- Goal-orientated and strong in implementation
- Clear and structuring
- empathetic and humorous
- creative
Expertise
- Management and industry experience
- Business management expertise
- Strategy development
- Team and organisational development
- Transformation Management
- Generational change family business
My approach to coaching
Focus on causes
I work together with you on the causes and not on the symptoms.
Targeted use of various instruments
In order to achieve the results you want, I use various instruments in a targeted manner:
- Coaching
- Sparring
- Counselling
- Training sessions, e.g. on communication topics
- Energy work, e.g. when dissolving beliefs
Preparation tasks for faster success
If we work together repeatedly, you will receive a preparation task from me before the coaching sessions. In this way, we use the time in the coaching sessions productively and increase the transfer success between the coaching units.
This enables us to achieve visible results in a comparatively short time.
Coaching topics
Personal development
- How do I release blocking beliefs?
- How can I improve my ability to deal with conflict?
- How do I increase my stress resilience?
- How do I present myself convincingly in critical situations?
- How do I communicate complex issues convincingly to different stakeholders?
Leadership & committee collaboration
- How do I organise the first 100 days in the new company?
- How do I manage to work more trustfully with the advisory board / supervisory board and shareholders?
- How do I get the shareholders and advisory board to back the company's reorganisation?
- How can I improve collaboration in the management team?
- How can I make our meetings more productive?
- How do I anchor a contemporary understanding of leadership in our company?
Change & Transformation Management
- How do I communicate the strategy convincingly?
- How can I win over my managers in favour of change?
- How do I proceed with the transformation so that there is as little resistance as possible?
- How do I organise communication in change/transformation processes?
- How can we become more innovative?
- How can we become faster and more flexible in our processes?
Generational change family business
- How do I organise the succession process?
- How can I best support my children in growing into the role of managing director?
- How do I make myself dispensable?
- How do I manage to let go?
- How do we manage to separate the parent-child relationship from the professional relationship?
- How do we deal with conflicts in the process?
Coaching formats
Coaching via MS Teams or Zoom Book online
Presence coaching at Ammersee or at your premises | from 4 hours | request by e-mail
3 days intensive coaching | presence | request by e-mail
Key questions for our introductory meeting
Before getting to know each other, please consider the following key questions:
- Coaching result: What do you want to achieve through coaching?
- Actual situation: Where do you currently stand in relation to this result?
- Additional information: What else do I need to know at the start of the coaching session in order to be able to provide you with targeted support?
1 | Preparing to join a new company
Your situation
You will be moving to a new company in 3-4 months as Managing Director.
You want to be effective from day 1 and therefore establish a basis of trust with your closest management team very quickly. You use the last few months of your sabbatical to prepare for your start with the help of a coach.
Estimated scope of coaching
5-6 coaching hours
Coaching results
- A clear goal related to the new company
- A clear understanding of your strengths and competencies
- A concrete entry strategy
- Initial approaches to quickly establish trusting relationships within the new management team
2 | Transforming blocking beliefs
Your situation
You are a successful managing director. The market requires you to change the culture of the company together with your fellow managing directors and your management team. You want to react more flexibly to changes in the market and technology and become more innovative in various areas of the company.
For this to succeed, it is important that you learn to endure conflict and deal with resistance with confidence. You and your colleagues know that you find it difficult to deal with conflict. You are better known for immediately looking for solutions that suit everyone.
But with the cultural change you are striving for, this is a hopeless endeavour.
That's why you want to work on your desire for harmony.
Estimated scope of coaching
1 hour plus 30 days of downstream support via signal messenger or e-mail
Coaching results
- Transformation of the underlying blocking beliefs
- Develop your conflict management skills
- Reduction of the desire for harmony
- Changed conflict behaviour
3 | Leading the transformation process to success
Your situation
The entrepreneurial situation requires a far-reaching transformation process.
You know from past transformation and change processes that middle management in particular is critical of change. As a result, you have been working on the same issues for years.
Your organisation is running at the limit because your company also has too few skilled workers.
You ask yourself how you can not only initiate the overdue changes in addition to your day-to-day business, but also achieve the desired result.
Estimated scope of coaching
18-24 hours spread over 1.5 - 2 years
Coaching results
- Objectives and the why of the transformation
- Transparency about the impact on all parties involved
- Transformation roadmap
- Clarity about the composition of the core team and multipliers
- Communication concept for the kick-off and along the transformation incl. FAQ
- Changed attitude to change among managers and key employees
- Coordinated organisational development measures
4 | Reshaping or changing the management team
Your situation
You took over the role of Managing Director in this company 6 months ago.
After working with the existing management team for six months, you realise that not everyone is up to the task. You therefore want to change the composition of the team.
However, it is important to you that this happens in a face-saving manner and that you utilise the managers who will no longer be part of the team in the company according to their strengths. After all, you value the expertise of your colleagues.
Estimated scope of coaching
6-9 hours plus 360° feedback for the members of the management team
Coaching results
- Clarity with regard to the requirements for the management team
- Clarity about individual strengths and competences
- Communication concept about the reason, goal and benefits of the change
- Preparation of employee appraisals
- Initial approaches to quickly establish a trusting relationship within the new management team
5 | Preparing company succession
Your situation
You are a managing partner and would like to hand over your life's work to your children in 3-5 years' time.
You have already discussed this idea with the family, but are unsure exactly how to approach the business succession. After all, you don't want the company or the family to suffer any damage as a result.
Estimated scope of coaching
6-12 hours
Coaching results
- A clear understanding of both the content and structure of the succession process
- Overview of necessary fields of action
- Trusting relationships with key people in the process
- Clear communication concept for the first steps
6 | Taking over the family business
Your situation
You would like to take over the family business in 2-3 years and continue as managing director.
You know that you have big shoes to fill and are worried about fulfilling this responsibility. It is also important for you to be accepted as a managing director. You are more than "just" the boss's daughter. You have lots of ideas about how you want to develop your father's work, but you don't know how to go about it so as not to put anyone off.
Estimated scope of coaching
24-36 hours plus support between coaching sessions via signal messenger or e-mail
Coaching results
- Personal competence profile
- Clear understanding of the new role and more self-confidence
- Corporate vision and strategic fields of action
- A clear understanding of both the content and structure of the succession process
Best practice for SMEs
The BLANC & FISCHER Group from Oberderdingen in Swabia started the transformation of its management culture with us in 2022.
Bernd Kratochwille, Head of Corporate Human Resources at BLANC & FISCHER Corporate Services GmbH & Co. KG.
