Hybrides Coaching in der digitalen Arbeitswelt – Analyse und Ableitung für Forschung und Praxis

This article focusses on the changes in coaching in the new and digital world of work. It outlines hybrid coaching as a highly promising approach of linking coaching to the hybrid world of work. Based on an inventory of digital coaching and blended approaches in psychotherapy as well as new work approaches, it shows how hybrid coaching can combine the advantages of direct face-to-face coaching and digital coaching. Hybrid coaching is described as a co-creation process between coach and client. The classic criteria of quality in coaching are transferred to hybrid coaching and modified. Ensuring the quality is essential when coaching is used as a professional consultation tool. In addition, examples are shown of what hybrid coaching can look like in practice. Finally, it is worked out which research questions arise from this and which questions have to be answered in coaching practice. The article aims to initiate a theoretical and practical discussion on how hybrid coaching can be designed and implemented in the new world of work and how the quality of coaching should be ensured.