Selina Van Laere, Founder & DirectorPrior to its founding, their clients struggled to find top-tier coaches, often relying excessively on a limited pool of coaches within their network. They were often frustrated by a lack of a consistent approach across their coaches and lacked any insight into what impact their spend on coaching was really having. Coaching provision was time consuming and many found the need to onboard individual coaches a burden.
The Coaching Solution distinguishes itself by bridging the gap between large-scale digital coaching providers with their 'off-the-shelf' packages and the services offered by a collective of independent coaches.
They offer a portal to a handpicked, diverse stable of world class coaches, meticulously matching a shortlist of 3 best fit coaches to each individual coachee. They understand what the success criteria are and work with their clients upfront to ensure the ‘coaching context’ is conducive to coaching success. Don’t be surprised if they challenge you to seek further clarity, confirmation or support. Coaching programmes are tailored depending on the needs of the coachee, some with psychometric assessments such as Hogan and / or a 360 exercise, and all are robust with three way meetings upfront and review meetings at the end.
Coaching assignments are managed and dashboards sent to clients that measure total spend, status of progress made, key coaching themes across all coachees and the all important measure of the impact the coaching has had, on coachee, their team and their organisation.
Clients benefit from a hassle free end-to-end coaching solutions delivered seamlessly.
“We make it simple,” says Selina Van Laere, founder and director of The Coaching Solution. “Establishing trusted partnership with our clients is paramount. We provide them with peace of mind, amazing coaches and an easy way to offer professional, impressive and robust coaching solutions to their internal clients.”
The Coaching Solution knows the difference between a good and a great coach. With over two decades of industry experience, it has built a cadre of professional coaches both in the U.K. and across five continents and 19 languages. Each coach is handpicked based on its 7-point selection criteria- coaching qualification, accreditation, external supervision, coaching experience (minimum 1000 hours), held a senior corporate career, in adherence to an eclectic model of coaching and finally they must be friendly and client centric. They don’t believe executive coaching is always the answer and so also have coaching specialists in their stable, offering specific expertise in the areas of impact & influence, resilience and managing stress, career navigation, imposter syndrome, working with senior females, transition coaching and neurodiverse coaching.
They offer bespoke support for CEO and C-suite executives, both on a 1:1 and a group basis. Their CEO support programmes provide newly recruited, as well as established CEOs, external support that reduces the pressures put upon them, gives them a safe space to talk and provides an all-important external perspective.
Equally impressive is their bespoke ExCo and senior leadership team development and facilitation expertise that help develop bench strength, drive leadership capability, inspiration to succeed and the time and space for reflection about strategy, vision and purpose.
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Establishing trusted partnership with our clients is paramount. We provide them with peace of mind, amazing coaches and an easy way to offer professional, impressive and robust coaching solutions to their internal clients.
The Coaching Solution has perfected the art of matching coaches over the years. Great matching according to Selina involves two critical success factors. Firstly, having a good brief—a solid understanding of the context, coachee, desired outcomes, support, the desire to change and self-awareness. And secondly, knowing the coaches well, really well.
Characterising the unique match-making is the team's ability to intently listen to client needs and objectives and be impartial. Going beyond the location and language criteria, it aligns the coach and coachee according to their background, style, approach, seniority, personality and cultural influences.
“Coaches need to have held at least a senior a role as the person who needs coaching. So, if we are coaching at CEO level, the coach needs to have been a CEO themselves,” says Selina. The Coaching Solution believes it’s important that the coach understands, personally, the context and the challenges that the coachee faces to be able to ask the right questions and to instinctively know what the coachee might be thinking and feeling.
When it comes to mentoring, they often headhunt mentors specifically for each assignment, ensuring they offer the exact experience and wisdom needed.
The Coaching Solution offers the programs in face-to-face, virtual and hybrid environments. It has a global stable of coaches.
They are the premier partner for executive and team coaching for senior leaders, providing exceptional service and world class coaches through risk and hassle free coaching solutions.
