Coaching
“The Ripple Effect” — Enabling others with tact and diplomacy.
1-day Intensive Seminar with Paul Smith M.A.&Helga Smith M.A. — in Munich, Frankfurt, or Berlin
Advice solves problems temporarily. Coaching develops people permanently.
In an age of accelerating complexity, AI-generated answers, and rising interpersonal pressure, the ability to coach intelligently has become one of the defining professional skills of our time.
Genuine coaching is something quieter and considerably more difficult than it looks — the ability to create conversations in which another person becomes clearer, calmer, more honest with themselves, and more capable of acting on what they already know.
"The opponent worth worrying about is not across the net. It is the voice inside the player's own head." — Timothy Gallwey
Paul & Helga Smith have spent decades coaching senior professionals across Europe. This is the distilled version of what actually works.
Programme
Throughout the day, we perform live analytical deconstructions of real coaching exchanges — examining why one question unlocks a conversation while another closes it, and why a single reframe can shift an entire session's direction.
Seminar Format
Because coaching is not learned by reading about it. It is learned by doing it — badly at first, then better, then fluently.
Your Trainers
Paul Smith M.A.
MA in Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London. Co-founder of OWAD, read daily by over 7,000 professionals across the DACH region. Former chair of The English Public Speaking Competition — a partnership between PSA, the Financial Times, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Helga Smith M.A.
MA in Philology, Goethe University Frankfurt. Three decades helping senior professionals find their voice — in English, in German, and across the cultural boundaries that separate them. Former cross-cultural trainer for the American Army Education Center and Siemens.
Over three decades, Paul and Helga have trained senior professionals across Europe, the USA, South America, Africa, and India — among them Lufthansa Flight Training, the Helmholtz Institute, Management Centre Europe, Zentrum für Unternehmensführung, the Austrian Management Academy, the SwissRe Centre for Global Dialogue, the British Council, and the Boston Consulting Group.
Logistics
Format
1-day intensive09.00 – 17.30
Investment
€ 650 + MwSt.Includes
Full-day trainingDocumentation, lunch,
refreshments & certificate
By the end of the day, participants leave not with a borrowed framework but with a clearer understanding of their own coaching voice — and a concrete structure for developing it further in the specific professional relationships that matter most to them.