Executive & Business Coaching

 

“Coaching is a partnership with clients that, through a creative process, stimulates reflection, inspiring them to maximise their personal and professional potential.”

(International Coaching Federation)

Coaching is characterised as a dialogue, in which the coach, through a structured process, accompanies the client in exploring the inter-relationships between his or her  person, his own Role and the Organisation, encouraging the coachee (the Executive or Manager) to develop the ability to think in systemic terms and to assess the gap between ‘current behaviour’ and ‘desired behaviour’.

Coaching is an individual, highly engaging and effective experience that allows the coachee to responsibly build his or her own professional development on his or her own strengths and by leveraging professional competences and skills already acquired over time.

The goal is to stimulate the coachee, through a creative process, to learn and  develop techniques and enact strategies that enable him/her to improve his/her professional performance, achieve goals and maintain an adequate work-life balance.

Specific goals may be, for example

– strengthening key competences for the role held;

– aligning organisational and personal behaviour with company strategies

– increasing awareness of one’s own resources;

– looking beyond one’s own horizons and self-imposed limits;

– accelerating personal growth and self-learning;

– developing the ability to help others on the same growth path.

 

At Paideia, executive/business Coaching paths include a preparatory self-assessment moment, in which the coachee uses ad hoc tools that support him/her in bringing out his/her personal and professional characteristics.

Subsequently, the three-way meeting (between sponsor, coachee coach) aims to define the coaching “contract”, establish a relationship of trust between the actors and align expectations with respect to the coaching pathway and the development objectives to be achieved.

And here we come to the heart of the coaching path: 6 sessions of 2 hours (but we still follow the wishes and needs of our clients), in which the coachee, accompanied by the coach, reflects on his or her goals by defining and implementing the action plan to achieve them. A three-way meeting in the middle of the course allows an initial stocktaking of the experience.

At the end, a meeting between sponsor, coachee and coach is an opportunity to take stock of progress from the start and the goals achieved, all the while maintaining confidentiality on the content of the sessions.