Coaching
Executive Coaching (Individual or Team):
In a society where many relationships are fragmented due to fiercely competitive environments, fast tracked leaders and severe politicking, the coaching relationship has a unique place in promoting a healthy and positive atmosphere in any business environment, which in turn optimises financial returns.
My coaching helps and supports professionals in turbulent times. Through positive short term intervention I assist people and organisations by:
• providing personal one to one development → (self esteem and assertiveness training/ motivation/ flexibility/ job satisfaction/ creating life work balance)
• enhancing performance → (time management/ defining of goals/ strategies/ solution orientation/ decision making)
• developing a particular competence → (skills training/ interpersonal and company communication)
• preventing derailment → (critical crisis intervention: stress management/ burnout/ mobbing)
• addressing organisational issues → (change management/ managing cultural diversity/ conflict resolution/ job retention/ retrenchment)
• giving open feedback
My systemic coaching method is based on a practical, solution focused and results oriented approach.
SFA (Solutions Focused Approach) focuses on what is working rather than what isn’t and replaces the focus from problems to client strengths. SFA is based on the assumption that the client(s) has the strength and resources to solve the situation at hand. It also bears in mind that change is constant.
The client therefore achieves measurable success in alignment with explicit business or personal needs.
• I am an experienced coach and trainer with several years in coaching (and many more in training) across various organisational levels, in many different sectors as well as cultural and organisational environments.
• I belong to a professional body of coaches and adhere to regular supervision and ethical practice.
• All information is treated in the strictest confidence.
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A quick explanation...
Let’s say you wanted to learn to drive a car,
a Consultant would bring you an owner’s manual and tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the workings of a car. The consultant would then leave you. He/She might return six months later to see how you had managed the actual driving part.
a Mentor would share his/her experiences of driving cars and the wisdom and lessons she had learned in her more rich experience with the matter.
a Coach would seat you in the car, place himself in the passenger seat, and encourage, endorse, acknowledge and support you until you felt comfortable enough to go it alone.
A more detailed explanation of the coaching process...
Primary Focus: A person’s present, in order to help them design and act toward the future. While positive feelings may be a natural expression, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, commitment, accountability and follow through.
BUT: A responsible coach knows when it’s useful to look at the past, precisely because the past informs the present, as well as in order to help extinguish limiting belief systems.
Subject Focus: Action and outcomes.
Model: Learning/developmental, focusing on attainable goals and possibilities.
Nature of Issue: A generally functional client desiring a better situation.
Treatment of the Past: Understanding the past as the context in which future goals are set.
Questions Asked: HOW? WHAT? Asking WHY, a form of seeking insight, is emphasized less than action.
Client Goals: Helps clients learn new skills and tools to build a more satisfying successful future; focuses on goals.
Accountability for Goals: Coaching goals, like business goals, usually have to do with one’s external world and behaviour, and therefore can be measured.
Relationship: Co-creative equal partnership (The coach offers perspectives and helps the clients discover their own answers).
Function: The Coach stands with the clients and helps him or her identify the challenges, then partners to turn challenges into victories, holding client accountable to reach desired goals.
Style: Catalytic, challenging, direct, straight talk and accountability.
Rate of Change: Growth and progress are a rapid and enjoyable challenge.
Responsibility for Outcomes: The coach is responsible for the process; the client for the results.
Disclosure: Personal disclosure by the coach used when relevant as an aid to communicating (a similarity with mentoring).