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FOR ORGANIZATIONS

Business coaching

In a constantly changing, unpredictable world, coaching allows you to get know yourself better, capitalize on your strengths, broaden your vision, make decisions based on what is really essential, be fully engaged in what you do, acquire new skills, and evolve as a professional, leader and human being.

I see every person as a world to discover, with its own challenges and potential for growth. I firmly believe that highlighting their resources, qualities and values is important to achieve progress.

Positive
Leadership

Nurturing performance & well-being

Positively influencing their colleagues, employees and clients requires multiple relational skills from managers: they need to share a vision, make decisions for the team, evaluate results, delegate, communicate, collaborate, handle tensions… The way managers tackle these daily challenges depends on the leader’s own personality. The relationship with themselves and their inner challenges have an impact on key capacities such as self-motivationmoving forward despite stress, remaining focused on priorities, managing their own emotions, and boosting their own energy.

Leadership coaching addresses both aspects: the leader in relation to others and in relation to himself or herself.

Tailor-made individual coaching takes a snapshot of the leader and explores strengths and personal performance, to see how he or she functions within the larger system. This way the leader can be encouraged to adopt a range of effective behaviour patterns that are adapted to every situation.

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The finer points

  • This coaching is for executives, managers and emerging or established leaders.
  • A first meeting between coach and coachee will assess their compatibility
  • Optional tripartite meetings with the line manager to start and celebrate progress
  • Number of sessions to be defined (generally 5-6), maximum 1½ hours per session, for instance every two weeks

Emotional
Agility

Transforming difficult emotions

Enhancing emotional agility* can generate a positive spiral, prevent toxic stressincrease resilienceboost vitality and well-being at work. Studies have also shown this to have a positive influence on performance, and by domino effect, a positive impact on co-workers.

Emotional agility is the human capacity of the leader or employee to

  • take a step back and see with curiosity and kindness how one’s emotions and associated thoughts work, to accept them and understand their valuable message
  • know what triggers automatic reactions that are no longer useful in the current context
  • connect with what is really important for oneself as a professional, leader and human being, and move towards value-based decisions and actions

* Competence developed with ACT tools (Acceptance and Commitment Training)

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The finer points

  • This coaching is for anyone who wants to progress, whatever the role in the organization.
  • A first meeting between coach and coachee will assess their compatibility
  • Optional tripartite meetings with the line manager to start and celebrate progress
  • Number of sessions to be defined (generally 5-6), maximum 1½ hours per session, for instance every two weeks
  • Tailor-made group sessions possible (maximum 12 people), half-day, workshop or training format

Balancing
Stress

Surfing the waves of stress

During the coaching process, the coachee can learn how to navigate stressful situations and prevent stress-related disorders through

  • understanding useful as well as toxic stress mechanisms
  • identifying personal signs of problematic stress
  • using inner resources and tools that have proved their validity

For employees on sick leave wanting to return to work, coaching generally includes

  • learning soothing practices such as mindfulness and breathing techniques
  • exploring internal factors leading to toxic stress, as well as defining sustainable conditions for returning to work
  • skills assessment to boost confidence and establish an action plan

Want to know more? Just contact me!
To book a free discovery call go to

The finer points

  • This coaching is for anyone who wants to progress, whatever the role in the organization.
  • A first meeting between coach and coachee will assess their compatibility
  • Optional tripartite meetings with the line manager to start and celebrate progress
  • Number of sessions to be defined (generally 5-6), maximum 1½ hours per session, for instance every two weeks
  • Tailor-made group sessions possible (maximum 12 people), half-day, workshop or training format

IMPORTANT

For employees on sick leave wishing to return to work

  • coaching takes a gentle approach, and usually requires 10 to 12 sessions
  • sessions are complementary to medical and psychotherapeutic care and do not replace them
  • tripartite sessions can sometimes re-trigger symptoms of toxic stress, so it is recommended to only consider these once the employee is feeling better

Who am I ?

  • PCC ICF and ACTcertified coach, with expertise in stress & burnout
  • Evidence-based tools, i.e. supported by scientific research
  • Strengths: sensitivityopennesscreativity, authenticityself-awareness
  • Working languages: FR, NL, EN, ES

Experience

  • 6 years in marketing, product management, team leader for companies in the ICT sector (innovative technologies): IBM, Proximus, Sanoma
  • 4 years as a coordinator and trainer in the non-profit sector: Coalition Climat, Atelier Groot Eiland
  • 3 years as an entrepreneurial coach in cooperatives: Smart Belgique, JobYourself
  • 2 years as a chef in HoReCa
  • 52 years of life discovery, 20 years as a mother of two children 

Freelance coach since 2021

  • Individual coaching for executivesmiddle managers and team leaders with companies in various sectors (energy, fmcg, water, banking & insurance, public services, etc.)
  • Skills assessment coaching for companies in the non-profit sector
  • Return to work coaching after burnout or other stress disorders, especially with employees in the pharmaceutical and banking sector
  • Life coaching: self-confidence, high sensitivity, professional orientation, return to work after burnout, entrepreneurial coaching

Certifications

  • PCC, ICF, 2023
  • Insourcing Katalyst (stress & burnout coach), E. Van Hoof Ph.D., 2022
  • MBSR & MSC (mindfulness-based stress reduction & self-compassion), Emergences, 2022
  • ACT Practitioner (Acceptance & Commitment Training), ULB, 2022
  • ANC Practitioner (‘Approche Neurocognitive et Comportementale’), INC, 2021
  • “Les clés du coaching”, CoachingWays, 2019
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