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Do you want to invest in your personal and professional development? Gain clarity about your strengths and values? Get professional feedback on your impact? Get to the bottom of challenges and difficulties and develop solutions in a protected space? Then coaching is just the thing for you. A consultation session, a series of appointments or even shadow coaching. Do you want to improve cooperation in your management team? We will be happy to advise you and, if required, conduct a workshop, team coaching or mediation. We can also support you with individual leadership or collaboration issues in an advisory or moderating capacity.

  • Consulting for managers

    Are you looking for a sparring partner with whom you can shed light on complex or difficult situations? Or would you like advice on how to deal with individual stakeholders, staff development, team stress or conflicts? Advice on the following management issues:

    - Corporate culture and change management
    - Personnel selection, potential identification & development, career planning, succession planning
    - Stakeholder management, steering management teams
    - Conflicts, dealing with difficult management situations and constellations
    - Resilience and burnout prevention

    Support for management teams

    - Alignment with a shared vision and strategy
    - Breaking down the strategy into individual areas of responsibility
    - Team development at board and top management level
    - Moderated feedback meetings with you and your managers / key players to clarify expectations and coordinate collaboration
    - Support or mediation in the event of conflicts or difficult constellations
    - Team coaching for effective collaboration and optimized decision-making (avoiding team biases and psychological traps in teamwork)

  • Executive Coaching
    - Positioning and orientation. Where do you currently stand?
    - Self-reflection and self-development. Coaching is the method of choice. If desired, it can be supplemented by a professional analysis. E.g. your behavior, your effect on others, your strengths and identification of possible areas for development on the basis of scientific test and, if necessary, feedback procedures (e.g. personality tests, motive structure tests, 360° feedback, dark-side characteristics or career risks).
    - Targeted competence development (e.g. empathy, assertiveness, strategic competence, diplomatic skills, social competence, situational leadership, delegation)
    - Authentic and value-based leadership If you were to lead 100% authentically, what would be different? What is stopping you today?
    - Stress management, work-life balance and building resilience Stress and strain are individual. Together, we work out exactly where the sources of stress or frustration lie. We develop strategies to tackle the causes or find coping strategies. Then we look at the resources that are limited but available, as well as sources from which you can draw energy.
    - Effective communication and conflict management     Communication is one of the areas in which you can always improve. Coaching gives you the opportunity to work on this individually and specifically and to learn more about yourself and others in the process.
    - Clarity of purpose What is your personal mission? What is your personal goal in your current role and what is your next goal? Clarity about our own goals - knowing why we are doing something - can strengthen resilience and make it easier to prioritize.

C-Level Executives, Leaders, High Potentials

    • Seminars and Workshops on topics such as Change, Resilience, Psychological Safety, Agile Leadership, Personality & Leadership, Modern Leadership, and Self-Organization.

    • Leadership development programs for leadership teams, departments, or business units.

  • Consulting on all leadership matters. Corporate culture and change management, succession planning, stakeholder management, career planning, potential recognition and development, management of leadership teams, conflicts, handling difficult leadership situations and constellations, resilience, and burnout prevention.

    • 360°-Feedback for assessing selected competencies (e.g., transformational, agile, resilience-promoting leadership, Dark Triad, career risks) or “Full-Spectrum Leadership”

    • Self-awareness and reflection through objective testing methods (personality, motivation structure, values, IQ, suitability, agile competencies)

    • Competency or potential assessment

    • Team analyses

    • CEO and Board Advisory on leadership and career matters

    • Team development at the board and top-management level

    • Facilitated feedback discussions

    • Designing and optimizing collaboration

    • Mediation

    • Individual Coaching

    • Sparring on leadership matters

    • Personality development

    • Potential development

    • Leadership competency expansion

    • Resilience coaching

    • Where are my strengths and potentials?

    • Where is my development potential hidden?

    • How can I change xyz?

    • How do others perceive me?

    • How can I improve my performance?

    We answer these and other questions through coaching based on valid personality diagnostics.

    Personality not only influences our reputation or how we interact with others and our work style, but it also affects how we make decisions, evaluate risks and opportunities, interpret the behavior of others, and perceive our environment.

    By understanding one’s personality, one can become aware of their own tendencies and learn to better understand those of others.

    There are no inherently good or bad personality profiles. However, depending on the requirements of a job, some profiles may be more fitting than others. A less fitting profile may present challenges but also unique potentials that should be explored.

Personnel Selection, Human Ressources & Organizational Development

    • Company-specific leadership development programs, organization-wide, systematic, and sustainable

    • Seminars on topics such as Change, Resilience, Psychological Safety, Agile Work, Self-Organization, Digital Mindfulness, Development of Future Competencies

  • Consulting and support in all psychological and business-psychological matters. For example: employee retention, burnout prevention, job design/job crafting, resilience, competency management, potential identification and development, personnel selection (processes, tools, and competencies), organizational development.

    • Custom 360°-Feedback: targeted compilation of competencies or "Full-Spectrum Leadership"

    • 360°-Feedback: Operationalization of the company's own competency or value model

    • Testing methods (personality, motivation structure, IQ, suitability tests, agile competencies)

    • Design & customization of competency models

    • Design of company-specific assessment or development centers and interview guides

    • Executive assessment, management audit, and selection consulting

    • Team analyses

    • Cultural analyses

  • Consulting and coaching for HR managers or teams on:

    • Managing and steering change

    • Developing organizational and leadership culture

    • Strategic talent development

    • Talent management processes, models, and tools

    • Potential diagnostics

    • Succession planning

    • Competency Management

    • Personnel selection (AC, DC, diagnostics, interview training)

    • Employee retention (retention initiatives)

    • Behavioral Interview Technique (BIT)

    • Fundamentals of Personnel Diagnostics and Selection

    • Competency, suitability, and potential diagnostics

    • 360°-Feedback Certification

    • HR Business Partner Certification

    • HR as Change Agent Certification

Testimonials Board Room & Executive Coaching

  • “Dr. Puckett conducted (...) a leadership training for the top management. (...) In the training (...) possibilities for improving cooperation and internal communication were developed. Dr. Puckett gave important tips and advice. (...) A six-eye discussion with the line manager, the detailed discussion of the personality analysis and the 360-degree feedback were (...) carried out in a highly professional manner. The potential for improvement and the person's strengths were sensitively addressed. The cooperation within the team, with superiors, colleagues and employees was (...) examined and discussed. I would like to thank Dr. Puckett for her work, which has brought me a process of self-awareness and opportunities for improvement and I hope for further opportunities for cooperation.”

    Henrik Eisenbeiß, Director Operational Engineering and Composite Plants, PFISTERER Holding AG

  • “Stefanie is unique in her approach. An incredibly quick grasp paired with a broad spectrum of in-depth specialist knowledge, ideally balanced with her emotional empathy for the people she meets. This enables her to correctly assess people and groups of people with just a few points of contact. ...coaching sessions, in which she regularly manages not only to identify exactly the right topics that are relevant for further development, but also to provide the right food for thought to be able to go deeper into the practice immediately. I am grateful to be able to take advantage of these horizon-expanding development opportunities and can strongly recommend Stefanie...”

    Emanuel Podwojewski, Head of Key Account Management / Sales Cooperations, 1&1 SE

  • “Stefanie is an excellent executive coach. She helped me gain a new perspective and understanding of my leadership and myself. The supportive and challenging approach helped me immediately: I was able to implement the tips directly. This and the feedback she gave me were incredibly valuable for my professional development.”

    Frederic Heinemann, Program Delivery Manager, Microsoft

  • “I got to know Stefanie as part of a training course in preparation for taking on further responsibility for a potential executive role. The applied methodology for structured personality assessment, as well as for self-reflection and reflection on others, helped me to recognize and understand behavioral patterns. This helped me to better understand which ones I can use more, but also what I can work on. Working with Stefanie is fun - the sessions together are characterized by mutual trust.”

    Christian Mages, Head of Development Online Projects & Agile Development Online, 1&1 Telecommunication SE

  • “I have implemented all of your suggestions so far and have already quadrupled my turnover in the last month. Thanks again for your great work!”

    Florian Hammer, Bezirksleiter Landesbausparkasse