Author: Saba Imru Mathieu

  • Micro-manager or Leader Coach – who would you like to work for?
  • Group and Team Coaching

    “Meet my books” video series. This fascinating book by Christine Thornton, is excellent for practitioners, leaders and students of coaching who want to understand group dynamics, systems thinking and other crucial concepts and techniques needed to successfully coach groups and teams.

  • Outils de coaching … ou pas ?

    Apprendre les outils de coaching Pour la plupart des coachs, une introduction à l’exercice de notre profession a commencé par l’apprentissage d’un outil de coaching. Le coaching est un comportement et une expérience. La seule manière de le comprendre est de le pratiquer. Il n’y a rien de mieux qu’un outil de coaching pour commencer…

  • Leader Coach or Manager Coach?

    Many people ask me why I call our training program Leader Coach while other coaching schools refer to Manager Coach instead. I think the choice of the term depends on what your view of leadership is. The first reason that I prefer the term “leader coach” rather than “manager coach” is that management is associated with…

  • Surmontez la crainte de diriger des réunions en apprenant à coacher

    Je déteste organiser les réunions de mon équipe! Vous seriez surpris de voir combien de chefs d’équipe et de managers n’aiment pas vraiment les réunions. C’est l’un des défis les plus fréquents auxquels font face nos clients en coaching de leadership. Certaines personnes ont une aversion pour les nombreux aspects de l’expérience de groupe et…

  • Overcome the dread of leading meetings by learning how to coach

      I hate organizing my team’s meetings! You would be surprised how many team leaders and managers really dislike meetings. This is one of the most frequent challenges that my leadership coaching clients face. Some people have an aversion towards many aspects of the group gathering experience and it can become excruciatingly uncomfortable if they have…

  • Coaching for performance – “Meet my books” video series

    Many people ask me for tips on what to read to learn more about coaching and leadership. So, I’ve decided to make a series of short videos, so you can meet the books on my bookshelf, and maybe get inspired too read them too! Here’s the first video of “Meet my Books”, introducing Sir John…

  • 4 Questions that will change your relations at work

      Photo Credit R. Baldwin Here’s a segment from my TEDx Lausanne Talk on 7 May 2018: When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try asking these 4 questions! What do…

  • Identify what you want from your future, why you want it and how to achieve it

    Photo © Yann Forget / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 Article by Veronica Riemer, World Health Organization, WHO Published in the March 2018 edition of the UN Special   Extracts: “Often when we think of a coach, what comes to mind is an athletics, tennis, basketball or football coach developing young athletes to perform to their full potential in winning teams.…

  • How to build a coaching culture in your company when nobody else seems to care

    Photo credit © Joshua Earle Is coaching at work used everywhere in the world? Coaching in the work environment has developed unequally across continents.  While coaching is widespread in the US, UK and Australia, it is still on the periphery of management practices in most other countries. Even where coaching is widely used (80% of…