Category Archives: Executive Coaching
Global Recruiting – Eight Tips to Keep in Mind Before Hiring Job Candidates Abroad

Global Recruiting is a challenge. Hiring your employees from other countries will give your company a chance to find a motivated and skilled workforce, particularly if your country is suffering from a shortage of skilled labor on a national scale in specific job sectors. However, sourcing your workforce from another country is difficult if you have never done it before. Here are eight tips that you should think about before you consider hiring from abroad: 1 – Use Traditional and Online Marketing Every country has its own set of laws that dictate how marketing and advertising are to be conducted. These sets of laws are also applicable to online advertising and traditional recruitment marketing, so make sure that you, as […]
Freelancing in Germany

Freelancing has emerged as a prominent global trend in today’s digital age, and Germany is at the forefront of this shift. With its flexible work arrangements and an expanding array of freelance platforms, Germany is witnessing a surge in professionals eager to harness the opportunities of an independent work environment. This trend is reshaping individual careers and invigorating the country’s dynamic economy. Advantages of Freelancing in Germany Germany’s freelance landscape offers numerous benefits for those seeking greater flexibility and autonomy in their professional lives. Freelancers can select their projects and clients, enabling them to align their work with their passions and expertise. This autonomy fosters a personalized career journey, enhancing job satisfaction and a more tailored professional experience. Moreover, freelancers […]
How to Take Control of Your Administration as an Expat Coach or Consultant – not the other way around!

A Guest Post by Tekin Ahmadi When you hear ‘business software’, do you immediately think of expensive software for large companies? That’s not how it has to be. Tailored to the needs of small businesses, self-employed professionals and start-ups, business software can help you with your day-to-day office work and simplify your administration and accounting. Do you get annoyed all too often by errors in your accounting that you do with Excel? Do you always have to get the address data for correspondence from another tool? That doesn’t have to be the case: business software can support you in your day-to-day office work and make your administrative work more manageable. And without high costs. So you have more time for […]
Of Orchids and Men – Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
I used to tell my colleagues once that I sometimes feel that I am like an orchid. I would only blossom in the right environment and when I get a lot of love from the people working with me. As a creative person, I also need to feel safe and accepted and this is the hardest part because we often make connections between items that others will not connect. Also, connect people with each other who would not necessarily see why they should be connected. On the weekend I attended a short workshop in a monastery of a Dominican sisterhood in Ilanz. There in the loving eyes of those sisters, I immediately understood why I would like my clients to […]
Turn Problems into Solutions – Four Approaches to Solving Problems

“Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person’s ideas and none of my ideas are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.” – Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person, 1954 1 – Talk about “Problems” to Find a Solution When I was a teenager, we had set meal times and would sit at a table together at least twice a day. Our Sunday family brunch often led to a conversation about a “problem.” My dad was studying to be a Carl Rogers client-centered therapist […]