How can I successfully fail in my new role?

Am I navigating with the correct map?

Do I play my best cards?

Am I an influencer?

Are my clients my true clients?

Who is with me?

What are my next moves?

What would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail?

Tactician or strategist?

Head first or heart first?

What will be my legacy?

Sokrates for the individual

Our practice is based on the premise that everyone has the inner resources to overcome pitfalls and achieve their objectives.

We dare to challenge and even confront the beliefs, to unveil the unsaid or the unconscious, bring awareness, and set the ground for responsible thoughts and actions.

That is how we help people unveil their full potential and create their own performance dynamics profoundly and sustainably.

SOKRATES - For the individual

New position

Securing and optimizing the taking of new functions

  • Integrating a newly recruited
  • Managing a bigger team or a wider perimeter
  • Dealing with a change of mission statements: from expertise to general management
  • Conducting a turnaround plan with a given/historic executive committee
  • Expatriation
  • Integrating an employee with a different cultural background

Leadership development

Realizing one’s potential

  • Becoming a manager: understanding hierarchical levels and managing internal transactions
  • Leading a team, creating, and maintaining a collective dynamic
  • Acquiring or developing a specific set of skills or know-how to prepare for a career move
  • Communicating with impact, gaining influence

Resolution

Addressing existing or latent managerial issues

  • Managing the organization in a tense social or political context
  • Ending an open or dormant conflict
  • Rebuilding a negative or a non-existent image
  • Solving delegation/time/priority management issues
  • Working on targeted areas for improvement (following a 360° review or any assessment)

Career orientation

Aligning one’s personal and professional aspirations

  • Identifying and preparing the next step in the organization
  • Managing a return from expatriation or extended leave (maternity leave, sick leave, sabbatical year, etc.)
  • Seniors: preparing for a successful (pre)retirement
  • Negotiated leave: developing and implementing a new project

Executive support

Creating and maintaining alignment of values, strategy, and communication

Accompaniement of the social relationship

Mastering the « social game »

  • Analyzing the players, defining the objectives, building the strategy, the tactical plans, and the related communication.
  • Preparing (individually or collectively) executives to manage tense social contexts: understanding and embracing the social strategy, being mentally and physically ready.

Supervision for the coach

Securing your coaching ethics

We believe that supervision ensures a top of the art and ethical coaching practice as well as it provides the psychological safety of both coachees and coach.

We offer professional coaches supervision services on a numerus clausus basis.

Our one-on-one coachings generally consist of about ten sessions and are preferably held at Sokrates’ offices.

Sessions are scheduled approximately every 3 to 4 weeks and last an average of two hours.

They are facilitated by an experienced, certified, and regularly supervised coach.

Sokrates also offers shorter or longer coaching formats, depending on the client’s needs.

Yang-Yin Coaching

For our clients who wish to benefit within the same coaching from the support of two coaches with different but complementary sensibilities and postures, we have created “Yang-Yin Coaching.”

Yang-Yin Coaching is an original approach that consists of alternating sessions led by a female coach and a male coach, according to the specific needs of each client.

Bound by the same rules guaranteeing the strict confidentiality of the content of the sessions with respect to third parties, the coaches exchange and coordinate their strategies throughout the coaching process in complete transparency with the coachee.