In our latest episode of MyGrowth Coaching, we explore the impact of coaching at Siemens Healthineers with expert coach Melanie Segain.

Learn about an 8-hour training initiative to reshape leadership and help managers become better supporters and listeners, and discover how over 5,000 people have embraced coaching to encourage trust and adaptability.

Would coaching skills help you?

It isn't easy, saying 'No'.

Especially if you are young, new in a team and feel the need to make a good impression, you'll accept nearly anything. But if you aren't careful you end up with exactly what you wanted to avoid: missed deadlines, disappointed colleagues and angry customers.

And maybe, a burnout with permanent damage to your health, reputation and self esteem.

So, how do you learn to say 'no' successfully? I explore this question with Joao Pereira and Ines Sobreira, both starting their Siemens careers, and Fernando Silva CEO for Siemens Portugal. To help me I also invited Lisa Stromberger, part of the MyGrowth Coaching team who has a background in psychology and cognitive behavioral science.

So, if you want to understand the importance of being able to say 'no', and also how to do it, listen in!

True story : my client had everything. She was successful at work, respected as a manager, popular with her team, healthy relationship at home - but she told me it left her feeling unfulfilled so she wanted to work on how to get the next promotion, then it would be all okay.

For some reason, I wasn't convinced, so I asked her:

"Ignoring all of society's expectations, what career would you like to have had?"

She hesitated, then finally said: "A hairdresser. I'd love to have been a hairdresser. I'm missing the possibility to be creative in my work."

Clients often bring an obvious topic to a session, but the real issue is hidden. So, how can the coach uncover the REAL topic that needs to be addressed?

To discuss this, I invited Heidi Reimer from the coaching organisation HR Akademie to explain what coaches need to do to make sure they work on the cause, not just the symptom, in a coaching session.

Nina Eichholz has always been a rather unusual coach.

First of all, she is somebody who changed the coaching landscape within the technology company Siemens by setting up the Grow2Glow grassroots coaching initiative there. The initiative helps women develop their careers with the support of trained internal coaches.

Secondly, she has successfully transferred her coaching skills from coaching individuals, to coaching entire organisations. As a consultant for modern organisational development she helps them examine their why, how and what so as to become the best version of themselves.

In this interview, I explore with Nina how this works and how a background in Systemic Business Coaching has helped her.

Can ChatGPT coach you?

All of us have probably turned to ChatGPT to ask a personal question or two since it took the world by storm at the end of 2022. But could you use ChatGPT (or any other AI tool) to carry out a proper coaching session?

Stefanie Düll has a Masters degree in coaching and consulting and wrote her master's thesis on the topic of AI and coaching. In this interview she talks about an experiment she conducted with ChatGPT to see how well it could apply a particular coaching tool.

Listen and find out how coaches can sensibly integrate AI into their repertoire of techniques to support their clients.

A copy of the prompts developed by Stefanie is available to download as PDF.

Imagine this:

You have a successful career in a blue-chip company, you have a coaching qualification and clients to coach in your native language. But instead of staying where you are, you throw it all away, move to a foreign country where you don't speak the language and set up your own coaching business there which means you have to work in a new language.

Why would anyone do that?

Christine Bender did exactly that and in this episode of MyGrowth Coaching she talks about motivation, fear, the advantages that coaching in a foreign language can bring and how she moved from a comfort zone to a learning zone.

Nowadays, managers are told by P&O or HR departments that they are supposed to 'coach' their team. But what exactly does that mean? How do you 'coach' your team? And what makes it different to how managers have traditionally worked?

To find out I interviewed Michael Pschiuk who is a senior manager in the field of cybersecurity in Siemens, but is also a qualified business coach and part of the Grow2Glow Siemens coaching initiative for women. Listen and find out:

• how a background in coaching helps him as a leader

• the limitations of a coaching approach as a leader

• the two questions everybody should ask themselves before they apply for a leadership role

If you are interested in the topic of business coaching, join the LinkedIn group to this podcast here, and make sure you never miss an episode.

Having a career and a family is not an easy task, particularly for women. If they opt to work part-time so that they can look after their children they can be seriously disadvantaged in the workplace.

In this episode I talk to Dr. Ulrike Dowie, one of the 120 coaches belonging to the Siemens MyGrowth coaching pool. She has a particular interest - and experience - with this topic. Not only is she an expert in AI, leading a team within Siemens Financial Services, she also has two children.

So, what are the issues women face? How can a coach help them? And what do you need to do to balance both family and career successfully?

The My Growth Coaching initiative aims to make a systemic business coach available to anybody in Siemens who wants to find their own way to become the best version of themselves.

In episode 1 of this podcast Birgit Eckart and Sonia Schautzer - the driving forces behind this initiative - explain:

• how My Growth Coaching came to life

• what exactly coaching is and how it benefits people

• who the My Growth coaches are, and their skills and qualifications

• how to apply for a My Growth Coaching

This is the first episode in this podcast. Future episodes will explore business coaching relevant topics and is available inside and outside of Siemens. Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.