- What is professional coaching?
- The different types of professional coaching
- What are the responsibilities of a professional coach?
- What qualities are expected from a professional coach?
- What areas can professional coaching help improve?
- Are you looking for a professional coach?
- 5 good reasons to hire a professional coach
- Frequently asked questions about professional coaching
In a B.A.N.I. world – Fragile, Worried, Non-linear and Incomprehensible – organisations and individuals seek to anchor themselves, to derive meaning, and to take just action.
The professional coaching, as we practice it at The Laughing Willow, is a living, demanding, and profoundly human approach. It supports individual and collective transformation, with joy and awareness.
Professional coaching is a guided reflection space, of stepping back and evolving. It is a structured process, based on listening, alliance and trust.
Here, there's no advice, no ready-made recipe – but a partnership where we explore together what needs to emerge, adjust, and transform.
It's an approach resolutely focused on action, but rooted in being. At The Laughing Willow, we cultivate a coaching stance aligned with our philosophy: bespoke, co-created support, dedicated to lasting change.
Whether you are starting a new role, in a period of transition, or seeking to make more of an impact, individual coaching will support you in refining your approach and amplifying your influence.
Executive coaching, manager coaching: each support is a meeting, a co-creation, a path towards greater clarity, confidence and agility.
A team is an ecosystem. Sometimes fluid, sometimes dysfunctional.
Team coaching helps to align objectives, ease tensions, and strengthen cohesion and communication. It also helps to re-energise the desire to work together, with purpose and enjoyment.
Transforming an organization means transforming relationships, mindsets, and systems.
Organisational coaching is used during reorganisations, culture changes, or profound transformations. It supports leaders and teams to develop a clear vision, to collectively mobilise talent, and to foster healthy and sustainable dynamics.
A professional coach is there to support awareness, to bring new perspectives to light and help build concrete solutions.
It supports the coachee in:
- the clarification of its challenges
- the identification of its resources
- exploring its levers of action
- initiating a chosen change
The coach is not there to give answers, but to to foster autonomy, clarity, and responsibility.
Go not where the path may lead… Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good professional coach combines expertise with the right mindset. They know how to listen without judging, question without directing, and support without imposing..
The coaches at The Laughing Willow are:
- Trained and certified (RNCP, ICF – ACC, PCC – EMCC) and use a wide variety of coaching tools (NLP, Process Communication Model, Transactional Analysis, Hudson…).
- Our coaches are multilingual and speak several languages (English, French, Spanish, German).
- Highly experienced with a keen understanding of the business world across various sectors and within multidimensional organisations: marketing, sales, procurement, HR, and management roles.
- Engaged in an ethical, demanding, and respectful practice, our coaches prioritise the relationship above all else. Tools are merely one means among others to enrich and illuminate the coaching objectives defined together.
Supervision ensures the quality of our coaches' practice, who are passionate about transformation and deeply committed to their own development journey.
Coaching can support a wide range of goals.
It acts, among other things, on:
- The posture of a leader, a manager, and self-confidence
- The alignment between values, vision, and action
- The quality of relationships and communication
- Emotion or stress management
- Change management and transitions
Each lever is activated in a specific way depending on the context, objectives, and the individual or group being supported.
- To take a step back, in a complex situation or at a significant turning point.
- To gain clarity, aligning one's actions with one's core values
- Strengthen the leadership or managerial posture in a changing environment.
- To find meaning, of motivation, and to give fresh impetus to his/her projects
- Turning weaknesses into opportunities, and doubts as drivers of progress
The Laughing Willow experience in professional coaching
Our coaches have over 150 years of combined experience. We support leaders, teams, and organisations in transforming environments.
Our team of certified coaches works in person, remotely or in a hybrid format – with an approach that combines rigour, purpose, and emotional intelligence.
What is the cost of professional coaching?
There is no one-size-fits-all pricing: each support program is personalized. The cost depends on the nature of the intervention (individual, collective, or organizational), the duration, the pace, and the context. We offer you bespoke formulas, just and transparent, in line with your objectives.
How does a professional coaching service work?
The coaching journey typically includes:
- Preliminary interviews to clarify the needs
- Setting clear objectives and measurable
- Regular sessions, in person or remotely
- Action plan follow-ups which allows for long-term change management
Each step is co-created, within a confidential and secure framework, for the benefit of the coachee's impact and autonomy.