Coaching, a practice that emerged to mitigate conflicts in the business world, has found a niche in politics to work within. It's an area where politicians, like company directors, have a series of recurring problems that can be resolved with the help of a coach.
“The rules of the game are not the same in business as they are in politics, and it's very important that the coach knows them,” explains Silvia Guarnieri, academic director and founding partner of the European School of Coaching. “Just as a coach needs to know the golden rules in business (such as not going over someone's head, for example) to be able to do their job, a political coach must also know the idiosyncrasies of the political world beforehand.”.
With this intention, to learn all these particularities, the Coaching and Politics training programme is launched. A course whose next edition begins on May 29th at the Madrid headquarters of the European School of Coaching and is taught by an expert in the field, professor and coach to politicians, Juan Vera.
Through theoretical sessions and the study of practical cases, and over four days, participants will delve into the values of democracy, different political timelines, and common blind spots for politicians, among other matters.
The aim of the programme is to understand and be able to support the politician and help them overcome the most common challenges and conflicts, such as loneliness, the incompetence of loyalists, the tendency to create barriers to participation, the transfer of responsibility, or the conflict between double commitment (that of the politician and that of the party).
