- What is individual coaching?
- How do you know if you need individual coaching?
- What concrete benefits can you expect from individual coaching?
- Detailed stages of individual coaching
- What practical tools does an individual coach use?
- Looking for an individual coach?
- How to choose the right coach (Factual criteria)
Giving yourself space. Take a breath. Step back. Lighten up. Visit individual coachingis a unique coaching service that enables you to clarify, align and transform.
At Le Saule Rieur, it's first and foremost about meeting. A relationship built on trust, step by step, where you become a full player on your own path. There are no recipes. Just powerful questions, a benevolent mirror, "meta" pauses and transformative realizations.
Individual coaching is a confidential, structured spaceA tool for getting through a situation, clarifying a turning point, or reinforcing a professional posture.
In a company, it can support a manager in taking on a new role, accompany a director in making a complex decision, or help an employee rediscover meaning in his or her work. It's not training, nor is it consulting. It's a deeply human, action-oriented approach, rooted in listening and presence.
If you recognize yourself in one of these concrete issues, you are in the right situation for individual coaching:
- Building resilience
- Supporting restructuring or organizational transformation
- Navigate through periods of uncertainty and/or constant change
- Developing and embodying authentic leadership
- Inspire, motivate and develop teams to strengthen collaboration
- Make more strategic decisions
- Successfully take on a new role (particularly managerial, integration of a co-director, etc.)
- Managing new responsibilities more effectively
- Develop your influence, communication skills and assertiveness
- Adapting to a new environment or team (hybrid or complex)
- Developing emotional intelligence
- Improving interpersonal communication
- Managing conflicts and tense situations
- Learning to manage pressure better
- Strike a balance between professional and personal life
- Preventing and avoiding burnout
- Clarify your professional goals
- Preparing for change or retraining
- Identify strengths and areas for improvement
- Gaining in confidence and leadership
Don't go where the path may lead... Go where there is no path and leave a trace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
According to studies by the ICF (International Coaching Federation, 2022), the results most frequently observed after individual coaching are :
| Improved skills | % of coachees reporting significant improvement |
| Self-confidence | 80% |
| Interpersonal communication | 72% |
| Leadership skills | 75% |
| Managing stress and emotions | 65% |
| Clarity of professional objectives | 77% |
Results are generally visible after 6 to 8 sessions, i.e. an average of 4 to 6 months.
Each individual accompaniment is a unique journey, which we build together step by step. At Le Saule Rieur, this journey is always built around several clearly defined and reassuring milestones.
At our first meeting, we take the time to get to know each other. You express your expectations and concerns, and tell us why you're looking for coaching today. Together, we define the concrete objectives of your coaching.
Then comes the heart of the support: regular sessions, generally spaced two to three weeks apart. Each session lasts around 90'. During these privileged times, you benefit from a secure space where you can explore, clarify and adjust your strategies. Between sessions, you'll be offered the chance to try out new techniques, to help you anchor what you've learned in your day-to-day professional life.
At the end of the course, we take stock together in relation to the coaching objectives set at the beginning: what have you learned? What has changed in and around you? How do you feel in your role today? This is also the time when you plan what's next, with autonomy and confidence.
Each coach has a variety of tools at his or her disposal, which can be deployed according to your needs:
Process Communication Model (PCM), Team Management System (TMS), Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), The Work, Clarification, Co-development (CODEV), Inspired Leadership, Transactional Analysis, TIPI, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), Complex Negotiation (ADN Group)...
Whatever tools we use, they are never an end in themselves, but a means of enriching and enlightening the work we do to achieve our objectives.
To help you choose your coach, here are some precise and verifiable criteria, whether you choose a live coach or one of the following consultant directory :
- Recognized certification : Choose coaches with ICF (International Coaching Federation) or EMCC certification.
- Professional supervision Ask whether the coach receives regular supervision (essential to guarantee the ethical quality of his or her support).
- Professional experience Minimum 5 to 10 years' experience in a professional environment.
- Specialization Check that the coach has specific experience of your issues (leadership, conflict management, career management...).
At Le Saule Rieur, every coach is certified, supervised and has at least 10 years' professional experience in business, guaranteeing the quality of your support.