Coaching provides a tailored and focused learning experience where the coachee is given the space, structure, and skills to achieve their development or work goals; such as improving confidence, inspiring teams to achieve greater results, or managing and implementing a complex change programme.
HealthyMinds@Work specifically provide psychodynamic coaching which combines a traditional form of executive coaching with the insights, tools, and techniques informed by our psychotherapeutic clinical practice. This model allows coachees to achieve a deeper understanding of their emotional and behavioral responses. Using a psychodynamic framework, coachees are encouraged to reflect about their unconscious motivations and understand current relationships through the lens of early attachments. This can be a powerful development tool which avoids many communication and relational difficulties.
Benefits
- explores the motivations, behaviours and feelings belonging to ourselves and others
- increases our emotional literacy, processing and regulation helping manage and reduce stress, anxiety and other heightened emotional responses
- understands and changes defensive thinking patterns
- challenges unhelpful beliefs, assumptions and unconscious biases
- increases resilience and overcomes barriers
- encourages creativity and collaboration
- builds more effective relationships through a deeper understanding of ourselves and others
- maximises performance and potential
Maximising the Effectiveness of Coaching
In addition to our psychodynamic approach, we draw on our expertise in organisational development to enhance self-awareness, strengthen leadership capabilities, and develop core competencies that drive workplace effectiveness.
Drawing from our experience working within HR teams, we take the following steps:
- set goals and expectations with the coachee in the introductory session
- agree with the coachee how to measure and evaluate outputs from the coaching sessions
- agree upfront how the coachee will share, communicate and get support from their manager/HR
- provide questions and material, if appropriate, for the coachee to prepare for sessions – the material shared with coachees is drawn from the resource bank of tools, techniques and information developed by our HealthyMinds@Work team