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By Saba Imru January 30, 2026
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu, MA, ICF PCC November 9, 2025
The human science behind potential, change, and growth
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu, MA, ICF PCC October 27, 2025
6 Self-coaching tools to get you back on track with energy and focus
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu June 7, 2022
You may be wondering why all the promotions are passing you by. Here are 10 things you can do to set yourself up to progress in your career and prepare yourself for a leadership position.
By Saba Imru Mathieu August 11, 2021
A coaching conversation unfolds as a form of gentle inquiry aimed at helping a person to think through a problem, clarify an objective or find new perspectives. The "coach" uses open-ended questions that invite novel thinking, and largely refrains from giving their own tips.
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By Saba Imru Mathieu January 3, 2021
Pourquoi acquérir des compétences en coaching ? Le coaching était en grande partie réservé aux cadres exécutifs et supérieurs pour lesquels un coach professionnel externe était embauché pour les aider à progresser dans divers aspects de leur fonction de leadership. Le coaching est une expérience d'apprentissage et de développement exclusive et hautement personnalisée, conduite par les objectifs du client, ce qui explique pourquoi les entreprises étaient disposées à faire l'investissement uniquement pour un nombre choisi d'employés. Plusieurs recherches sectorielles, y compris ceux publiés par la Fédération Internationale de Coaching ont mesuré les avantages de recevoir un coaching et le retour sur investissement s’avère être excellent, parfois exceptionnel selon la façon dont il est calculé. Les résultats montrent que les employés, à divers niveaux organisationnels, qui se font coacher améliorent les performances et la gestion des affaires, augmentent leur productivité et leur motivation, aiguisent leurs qualifications en résolution de problème, deviennent plus autonomes et proactifs, et développent une attitude globale plus positive qui à son tour influe positivement sur le climat organisationnel. Compte tenu de tous ces avantages remarquables, les entreprises augmentent la disponibilité du coaching pour un segment plus large de leurs employés en créant des rôles de coachs internes, généralement les professionnels RH qui fournissent des services complets de coaching. Ils forment également les gestionnaires à intégrer les compétences de coaching dans leur style de leadership.
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu January 3, 2021
Si vous êtes nouveau dans la direction d'une équipe virtuelle, avec une équipe dispersée également novice dans le télétravail, vous aurez besoin d'autant de ressources que possible pour vous aider à réussir dans ce nouveau mode d'être avec vos collègues et de coordonner le travail en ligne. Le leadership en temps de crise requiert des compétences techniques qui doivent nécessairement reposer sur une forte capacité à créer et entretenir des relations positives par téléphone ou ordinateur. Les astuces dans cet article sont également utiles si vous retournez progressivement au bureau, moment qui est également semé d'incertitudes. Vous savez déjà comment organiser le travail, créer des processus efficaces, attribuer des rôles et des tâches. Je me concentrerai donc sur les "soft skills", et en particulier les compétences de coaching qui sont essentielles pour motiver et responsabiliser les collègues à travers le changement, encore plus lorsque l'on travaille sous stress et à distance. En période de stress, en tant que chef d’équipe, vous pouvez être l’une des rares sources d’encouragement pour vos collègues, alors n’hésitez pas à être positif et solidaire. Parfois, vous devrez également être décisif et fournir une direction dans une grande incertitude. Pour naviguer dans ces différents styles de leadership, vous trouverez utile de vous renforcer avec ces compétences de coaching faciles et pratiques en six étapes.
Leader Coach Video Tutorials
By Saba Imru Mathieu December 10, 2020
When someone comes to you with an idea of something they want to do, but they’re still wondering about it, instead of jumping in to give them all sorts of advice, try adopting a coaching posture by asking these 4 questions.
Leader Coach Video Tutorials
By Saba Imru Mathieu November 3, 2020
Coaching is about having the right supportive mindsets, as well as displaying excellent communication and coaching skills. Adopting a positive, humane, winning, mindset will help you be a better leader coach.
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu September 4, 2020
Deciding when to coach involves not only understanding the types of situation that are most conducive to coaching, but also developing an instinct for when to quickly adopt a non-directive mode that will create value in spontaneous conversations. Once you've acquired a coaching mindset and the coaching skills, knowing when to coach is just as important as knowing how to coach.
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By Saba Imru Mathieu August 31, 2020
Knowing when to coach is just as important as knowing how to coach. Coaching works best when you want to invite new perspectives, or have team members discover their own solutions. Here are a few tips on how to go about it.
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By Saba Imru Mathieu July 25, 2020
La première raison pour laquelle je préfère le terme “Leader Coach” plutôt que “Manager Coach” est que la gestion est associée à s'assurer que les processus fonctionnent correctement, apportant l'ordre, l'organisation et le contrôle. Alors que le leadership est associé au traitement des personnes, à la création d'une vision, à l'instauration de relations de confiance, à la motivation, à l'autonomisation des autres.
By Saba Imru Mathieu July 25, 2020
The first reason that I prefer the term “leader coach” rather than “manager coach” is that management is associated with ensuring that processes work properly, bringing order, organizing and controlling. Whereas leadership is associated with dealing with people, creating a vision, establishing trusting relations, motivating, empowering others.
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By Saba Imru-Mathieu July 19, 2020
If you’re new to leading a virtual team, with a dispersed team also new to telecommuting, you will need as many resources as possible to help you succeed in this new mode of being with your colleagues and coordinating work online.
By Saba Imru Mathieu June 14, 2020
There are so many books about coaching and it’s quite hard to navigate through all the titles to find what really matches your needs. Here are a few tips from my bookshelf.
By Saba Imru June 14, 2020
The current world crisis has shown that human qualities, empathy, compassion, kindness are cardinal to overcoming the many difficult challenges that people are facing everyday. To help bring empathy to life in the workplace Dana Walden shares her expertise, in a webinar entitled "Empathy". Dana tells us about what it is, how to develop it easily and the immense positive impact it has on the workplace. Please watch and give us your impression in the comment box below. We'd love to hear from you!
By Saba Imru Mathieu June 9, 2020
Sometimes when running leadership development programs we teach the simplest of things. We find ourselves resuscitating fundamental knowledge that people already have within themselves at a deep, core, human level but which somehow got buried in the desert of organisational life.
By Saba Imru Mathieu June 6, 2020
What does the term “personal development” mean for you? Some people associate it with study and learning, for others it’s about acquiring new practical skills and for others still it evokes a quest for fulfillment or a spiritual journey. It is perhaps all of these, and more.
By Saba Imru Mathieu June 3, 2020
I guess this is a rhetorical question nowadays.  Aren’t we all constantly facing unknown territory? Students don’t know if what they are learning now will be useful the day they […]
By Saba Imru Mathieu May 31, 2020
Saba was interviewed for the UN Special magazine by V. Riemer of WHO after conducting several workshops on coaching skills and coaching culture.
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