Coaching

Coaching aims to make a leader able to consciously apply a new and more efficient behavioural style in accordance with the given situation.

Coaching seeks to develop a person's ability to more consciously relate to their behaviour and deal with their environment. Such a more conscious way of operation is conducive to both the performance of the leader's team and the organisation's culture. Leaders who have acquired a coaching attitude act as role models for their team members as well as for the organisation in terms of focusing on goals, providing feedback, supporting development, conflict management, team work, handling the similarities and differences of people, assertiveness, and the alignment of the individuals' and the organisation's needs.

Coaches work in the here and now. Contrary to traditional psychotherapy that tries to understand the present by exploring the past and often works without accurately defined goals, the development process focuses on the present, on the future and on the objectives. Coaching is behaviour-centred and does not seek to understand cause and effect relationships between behaviour in the present and impacts experienced in the past. Instead it aims to identify ill-functioning patterns and replace them with well-functioning ones.

Coaching can be efficient only if its objectives are in line with the leader's individual goals. Coaching is a discrete form of development. Feedback should always be given to a coached individuals' leader in the presence of and in agreement with the coached individual. The needs of the coached individual's leader can be integrated in the process, but only after a consultation with the coached individual and only if they accept the involvement of those needs. Also, the coach is also prepared to put the coached individual's needs before the organisation's interests, should these needs conflict during the process.

We use a wide variety of tools to support individual needs and the achievement of goals in terms of change. We do not follow a specific "school" - we do what we think is the best for the coached individual in the given circumstances.