IECL Certified Coach
Professional supervision
Professional supervision is available for writers and editors who work with sensitive or disturbing content.
The supervision relationship is an essential investment in your professional development and wellbeing. It offers time out from the day-to-day challenges of writing or editing works that expose, explore or otherwise present sensitive and explicit content that can be disturbing for both the writer/editor and the reader/end-user.
The aims of professional supervision are two-fold:
- To provide a confidential and professional space in which to debrief.
- To provide a safe space in which you can reflect, learn and grow.
Sessions are available for individual or group supervision, and are held online (Zoom).
Click here to send an email enquiry and to request a free and confidential discovery meeting by phone or Zoom.
Coaching
Coaching is widely used in business, sports and other disciplines to support individuals, teams and organisations to reach their potential. Usually, coaching takes the form of a structured conversation that leads to a measurable outcome.
There are many different definitions of coaching – we operate according to the definition developed by Standards Australia:
Coaching
A collaborative endeavour between a coach and a client (an individual or group) for the purpose of enhancing the life experience, skills, performance, capacities or wellbeing of the client. This is achieved through the systematic application of theory and practice to facilitate the attainment of the coachee’s goals in the coachee’s context.HB332-2011 Coaching in Organizations, Standards Australia
Coaching services
We provide several different types of coaching, including:
Development
Developmental coaching – I work with individuals to meet and exceed their current and future challenges.
Organisation
Organisational coaching – I work with individuals and teams to establish and achieve strategic goals in the organisational setting.
Performance
Performance coaching – I support individuals to achieve their career and work-related goals.
Skills
Skills coaching – I work with individuals and teams who wish to acquire or improve their work-related skills, including public health research, creative and professional writing, professional editing and marketing for small businesses.
Teams
Team coaching – I work with groups, businesses and organisations to establish and achieve team goals.
Other types of coaching include business coaching, executive coaching and remedial coaching
– we do not currently offer these coaching modalities.
Please note that coaching is not the same as mentoring or counselling,
and we do not currently offer these services.
"I undertook coaching with Renee during the early stages of re-entering the workforce as an editor. I was unsure of my goals for my business, but with Renée’s patient approach I managed to form a much clearer view of my goals and priorities. Without imposing her own opinion she somehow magically got me to crystallise mine, which was (actually, although I hadn’t realised it) what I was wanting to do. I had felt a little stuck. With her support I brainstormed ways to build networks, source work and create a professional development plan. While Renée was always professional she was also compassionate. She was aware that wider life, too, can sometimes lean in on your professional life. I left every session with Renée motivated and filled with hope. "
Kim Wilson
Insight Editing
Benefits of coaching
Coaching offers a wide range of benefits for the individual, team and organisation.
The immediate benefits of coaching include boosting confidence, improving work performance and building effective communication skills.
For individuals, coaching offers:
- opportunity to define (or redefine) career goals
- increased engagement in the workplace
- a safe space to gain perspective and explore sensitive issues
- a deep foundation for learning
- support for acquisition and improvement of key skills such as delegation, communication, persuasion, conflict resolution and team building.
For teams and organisations, coaching offers:
- improved employee engagement
- improved communication
- enhanced relationships between employees, teams and management
- increased productivity
- support for identification and development of high-potential individuals
- demonstrated commitment to career development
- increased morale and staff retention.
For leaders and managers, coaching offers:
- opportunity to uncover hidden strengths and weaknesses
- a safe space to gain perspective and explore sensitive issues
- encouragement towards new insights and perspectives
- challenge towards free thinking, flexibility, creativity and innovation
- enhanced performance
- improved communication
- empowerment towards exceptional work.
We use a range of models, methods, techniques and strategies, tailored to suit the needs of the individual, team and/or organisation. These reflect our philosophy and ethos, which founded on strength-based psychological principles, evidence-based models of adult learning and a commitment to excellence.
Gold Standard
We support and comply with the International Coach Federation’s (ICF) Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct. Accordingly, we commit to maintaining, storing and disposing of any records, including electronic files and communications, created during our coaching engagements in a manner that promotes confidentiality, security and privacy, and complies with applicable laws and agreements. Please refer also to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
