Beate Raabe
Beate Raabe
I am an executive and team coach, certified by the International Coaching Federation.
My clients are mainly active in the EU institutions, Member State representations, business representations and NGOs.
They come to me for my competence and experience as a coach as well as a senior executive in public affairs.
Feeling deeply understood and in a safe space to address professional or personal issues on which they would like to get a better grip, clients leave with greater awareness of what is important and motivated to go ahead.
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Everybody needs a coach to be sure you take the right decisions and actions, to overcome challenges or to have a regular sounding board for how you interact with what is going on in your job or your life - or both.
As a life coach, I am also the author of the book "When grief strikes" (available in EN and DE). Bereavement affects most of us at some point(s) in our lives. We mostly deal with it on our own. The book breaks with the taboo and provides comfort as well as a positive way forward with a non-religious, non-spiritual approach and short and easy reading.
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I live in Brussels (BE) and I work in English, German and French, locally and online,
on matters related to business, career and personal development, relations and life.
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My full CV is available on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/beateraabe
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Coaching
Coaching
Simply put, coaching is a listening and reflective question technique applied by the coach to assist the coachees in designing and making the change they want to see in their work, careers, relations, lives ...
Coaching can be a powerful tool in making the best of what constitutes the coachee, i. e. you: Personality, mental and physical disposition, talents, skills, experience, strengths and even what the you may perceive as weaknesses.
Coaching is different from consulting and advising. The coach helps the coachees develop, structure and focus their thoughts and become fully aware of drivers and obstacles. On that basis, the coachees unlock and develop their own ideas, solutions, strategies as well as the determination and energy to put them into action.
Coaching is future-oriented. In that, it differs from therapy that can solve conflicts of the past.
A coach does not tell you what to do because you know what feels best for you. However, the coach helps you become aware of what exactly will take you just that important step further.
Mentor-coaching means that the coach gives you a hint or shares what has worked for others - if you so wish and the coach thinks it appropriate. You will be coached on a possible option to check whether it could also work for you.
Coaches
Coaches
Qualified coaches have received training that is usually certified or recognised by a national or international coach association. Some coaches specialise according to personal inclination, or they seek specific training, e.g. trauma coaching. However, it takes much more to be a good coach:
- A firm belief that everybody can grow beyond current limits
- Pleasure in helping others thrive
- A strong presence in which coachees are met at their level
- Maintaining absolute confidentiality and respecting a strict code of conduct
Never losing the coachee's objective out of sight
An ability to park one's own ego and feelings
- Creativity and resourcefulness in applying tools and coaching techniques
- ...
Coaches will address what you want to discuss. They will hear you and reflect your thoughts or feelings in such a way that you are enabled to see beyond them.
They will be empathetic or they will challenge you, whatever serves your purpose. They will take you through your thought process from what you really want to achieve to what you need to do to get there, step by step.
The coach accompanies you on that path. No need to walk alone.
Coachees
Coachees
Coachees are typically people - individuals or teams - of all backgrounds who want to:
- Solve an issue
- Develop a strategy
- See their way forward
- Achieve a goal
- Create a better balance
- Make a decision that feels right
- Get going but are dragging their feet
- Evolve beyond current thinking and action patterns
- ...