Coaching is a strong tool to support your career
Traditionally coaching was associated with a problematic fulfilment of the job. Nowadays coaching is seen as a great tool in the perspective of life-long-learning, a perspective that goes for any employee who wants to be effective and attractive in the labour market. Seba considers coaching as an important instrument in your personal development.
Coaching support you to get more grip on your own working situation. It makes your influence on daily processes increase and it certainly influences your career in the long term. In times where working careers are even extended to 66 or maybe 67 years, early and deliberate thoughts about wishes, talents and skills are of vital importance.
Specific for coaching at Seba is that we are specialists in diversity. We do not ignore mechanisms of exclusion in the work place. We are very experienced in any kind of diversity problem in teams and we know how they work out. You do not need to prove us first that exclusion exists. We are your partner in the search for possibilities to respond to it, and to find our what reactions suits you best. This is done on the basis of your existing abilities so that you will be surprised about the tempo of results you can harvest.
Expat coaching
Working in the Netherlands is not really different from working elsewhere in the world, but in the same time it is. As an expat you can have sooner and better achievements at work if you have a clear introduction in the culture, the hidden rules of the game. In three to five sessions you will learn all about the Dutch approach of business, about non-existent but ever-present hierarchies, about the poldermodel and a lot more. You can reflect on your observations and experiences in a safe environment and set out your personal goals and strategies with the help of one of our expat coaches.
Are you ready for life-long-learning?
Give us a call: +31(0)20 - 682 0255 or send an email: info@seba.nl
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Case: living with the Dutch
An Indian ICT company settles in Europe and chooses Amsterdam for its headquarters. The company is doing quite well in business. New customers are brought in all the time. Still there is a lot of competition from other Indian ICT companies; there are also a lot of potential customers that the company cannot win. One issue is the lack of trust with European clients to make themselves dependent of the Indian company when outsourcing the back-office. How can this Indian company win the trust European companies? Sometimes they are doing well, other times the competitors win. The company should have more local roots by hiring local staff. However, the Dutch, Germans, French and Italians that they hired already, do not stay long in the company. They want to have a say in almost everything and that is not the way the rather hierarchical Indian company works. That hierarchy is part of the success so why change it? But in practice now they have to fly in staff from India, with all the efforts involved concerning immigration papers and the like. And it also means that their knowledge about and experience with the local market remains limited.
Source and follow-up solutions found in the book: Making the difference, by Seba director Grethe van Geffen. 2010 |
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My employees tell me every time what a present it is to benefit from coaching.
I just had a few conversations about it and compliments keep coming in.
“Also in my private life I learn to set my own boundaries and I need that, it makes me feel good” was one of the comments about the coaching sessions.
Personally I think that our conversations often help me to see the right proportions again.
I am so deep into context and situation myself but when talking to you, the way to go is shown all in the clear…
Mariet Wolterbeek, director regional library ZOUT and chair SUB
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