Coaching

What is coaching?

Coaching is the facilitation of a process of self-discovery for an individual with a specific goal in mind. Coaching is about personal development in an ever changing environment.

Our focus is to help individuals who want to develop their own skills more or require a different outcome to what they normally would achieve. We work with individuals and businesses that want to grow and develop and are not always sure how to go about it. Coaching is in the here and now and working towards success in the future. It is not psychology or retrospection of the past. Coaching is based on the individual's own experience and learning through it.

Coaching is about being challenged about your ideas and viewpoints to provide personal insight. It is a guiding process to self-discovery that will ultimately lead to desired change. Coaching provides a safe pathway to explore limiting assumptions and discovering new answers.

Coaching at times is just being a sounding board for a person to explore their thoughts and to make sense of the number of questions that is floating around.

Coaching works best

Coaching is for individuals and businesses who want a different result to what they constantly get by performing the same actions. The individual must have a desire for a change or different outcome. The change is not necessarily a drastic one but sometimes just a tweak to the way we see and interpret things.

Part of coaching is for the client to reflect on the session and the learnings from it. It could also involve some actions that the client has to take to achieve their goals.

Normally coaching sessions are between an hour to two hours long and are scheduled two to three weeks apart for 10 - 12 sessions. This is normally agreed with the client before the coaching commences.

About our coach - Sulet van Niekerk

Sulet is an experienced Coach with a strong business acumen. As a qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa) with more than 10 years’ experience in the corporate environment she gained valuable experience throughout her career working at large corporate organisations of which the last was in Senior Management role in the banking industry. Throughout her experience she realised that it is the individual that makes an organisation successful. Sulet is passionate about each person to have fulfilment in their careers and believes that every individual has the potential to do so!

As a Coach her focus is on career and leadership development. Sulet has coached at various management levels in organisations from Executive to Junior Manager across a number of industries.

Sulet holds a Certificate in Coaching Practice from the University of Stellenbosch and is also a member of COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa). Sulet completed her Pathway to Master Coach diploma in 2019 and is now registered with the Institute of Management Consultants and Master Coaches of South Africa (IMSCA).