Coaching Services
Individual Coaching:
Gaining Ground
Individual coaching does not resolve organizational issues but it is a tremendously powerful tool to enable you get perspective on your professional situation, identify what you would like to confirm or change and experience what those changes feel like.
Coaching clarifies fundamental values and challenges beliefs. It consequently enlightens your choices.
It is a process that takes place over a defined time period (4-6-9 months). It is often structured with monthly sessions of an hour or so. Sometimes interviews with the coachee’s key stakeholders or a 360° feedback can be very useful starting points.
Initial discussions focus on clarifying an objective and how to measure that. The objective is generally validated in a tripartite meeting with the N+1 or other significant party for the coachee.
Then begins the work of getting closer to the objective, exploring what it feels and looks like, what will be the gains and losses, who needs to be involved, who can support, what will change…
You might need it if…
You have just been promoted and you want to make an impact within the first 90 days.
You did not get the promotion you were expecting.
You lack motivation, you are irritable and exhausted.
You are about to come back to work after having taken a long break.
Interactions with colleagues are a constant strain.
Themes include…
leadership style
managerial courage
stress management
career transition
assertion
burn-out (prevention and recuperation)
networking
interpersonal relationship management
career development
Collective Coaching:
Rowing Together
Team coaching starts with a discussion at the top with you about what needs to change. I often propose to observe the team in action and/or conduct individual interviews to understand underlying issues. Sharing the diagnosis serves to co-design the most appropriate intervention.
Can include:
off-site seminar
monthly team supervision
co-development
regular analyses of managerial practice
training
facilitated meetings
You might need it if…
Your team consists of fabulous and competent individuals. They don’t however pull together generating frustration and inefficiencies.
Your team needs to change the way it functions to adapt to a changing business.
Your team does not have a clear goal. Apathy has set in.
You don’t enjoy interacting with your team. You find yourself dreading team meetings. There is a lot of complaining and absenteeism.
Themes include…
Leadership
Management
Engagement
Consolidating after a crisis or an organizational change
Prevention and psychological safety
Career Coaching:
Structuring your Story
Going through a structured thought and action process with a professional is absolutely invaluable in these times of doubt and uncertainty.
I like to start by taking an interest in your larger life story. When this story takes shape the next career step comes to light grounded in sense and meaning.
Over the years, I have developed techniques to enable clients identify their professional achievements and their competencies.
Sorting the competencies into a coherent shape is a very important piece in the process of defining the next career objective. This work can take 3 to 4 months. It is fun like making shapes with stones on the beach.
Another piece of career coaching is taking action to achieve the career objective equipped with documents that tell your story and the added value you can bring (emails, pitch, interviews, CV, Linked-in and FB pages… ).
And finally, the networking skills you will acquire during the career coaching process will simply prove invaluable for the rest of your life.
You might need it if…
You’d love a professional change but you don’t know what you really want.
Your job is no longer satisfying.
You no longer see the sense of what you do.
You are busy but bored.
You are a bit scared to expose yourself to the job market.
Themes include…
professional competencies
career objectives
story framing
interviewing
networking
Spot On Coaching:
Implementing Winning Strategies
If you are faced with a challenging professional situation, Spot On coaching can help!
It consists of a once-off session to enable you examine the stakes and gain confidence in facing into what needs to be achieved.
The duration of a spot-on coaching is 2 to 3 hours. Practical exercises and video can be very powerful tool in this process.
You might need it if…
You are feeling nervous about a presentation that you will make in front of a potentially critical audience.
You would like to unravel a tricky or stressful professional situation.
You would like to gain confidence for an upcoming recruitment interview for a job that you really want.
You have an oral examination to pass and you’d like to go into this situation feeling prepared.
You have to reprimand a difficult personality in your team and you are dreading the conversation.
Your annual evaluation is coming up. You have many points to raise but would like to practice how you put them across.
Themes include…
Positioning oneself for an internal job opening
Tackling sensitive topics with a colleague (illness, attitude, clothing …)
Being clear about your professional commitments
Giving an impactful oral presentation
Overcoming stress
Preparing a recruitment interview or an end-year evaluation
Resolving a conflictual professional relationship