Choho Academy®: coaching/training for young professionals

“Only you can set your mind.” Esma Choho

A one-year program for professionals aged between 25 and 40, geared towards (personal) leadership. This coaching program has been fully developed in accordance with our methodology: the Choho Mindset® and is available either as an in-company program or through open enrollment.

Format

The Choho Mindset® is theory-based, but also includes assignments, role play, intervision, supervision and humor. The program comprises a series of 5 modules, spread over 10 months. In-between each module you continue to have contact with your lecturers and other course members, and continue to work towards your goal. The Choho Mindset® is available as an in-company program or through open enrollment.

Who is it for?

Professionals aged between 25 and 45, for example senior leaders, specialists, policy officers, entrepreneurs and independent practitioners. The groups are made up of a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 12 participants.

Who is it by?

The Choho Mindset® is taught by Esma Choho and a certified organizational psychologist.

Costs

Study costs of 7,500 euro include the following: study materials, location and accommodation expenses, coffee, tea, refreshments, Choho Mindset®-certificate en administration fees.

Results

You develop your self-esteem, adding to your confidence and inner-peace: vital leadership qualities. You learn how to undergo responsibility as a freedom, as opposed to a heavy burden. You learn how to take effective action in awkward situations. You uncover a greater discipline, focus and direction within yourself. You develop your personal effectiveness and leadership and in doing so, if this is your aim, your assets or income. >

Cases

Nicole, judge

“I have gained so much more courage. I stood in the way of myself. No-one else. I can see this now and it sounds simpler than it is. There is a deep wisdom in the Choho Mindset® and I feel privileged that I am able to undergo the biggest adjustment in my life thanks to such simple things as focus.”

Soumaya, clinical psychologist

“Thanks to the Choho Mindset® my income and freedom have improved 100%.”

In-company case

A group of high potentials is selected by management to work on quality development and product innovation. Management asks esmachoho to incorporate these themes as part of a coaching and training program.

During the first session the group unanimously question why they have been selected for the program. From this emerges not only a lack of internal communication, but also the participants' distrust of management's motives. Our agency promises to address this at the next session. We ask each of the participants to indicate which values they feel are important at work, and what in particular they would like to see changed in their work practice over the next year. This question serves to chart out the personal values and learning objectives of each participant. Also, without consciously realizing it, during this first session the participants actually make the transition from unmotivated to motivated; a critical first step towards accomplishing the assignment. An extra session is planned with management, at which the trust issue is brought to the foreground and demarcated as a joint development goal.

Over the course of the year we delve increasingly deeper into the personal values and learning objectives of each participant. However, gossip and backbiting after each session make the joint development goal, i.e. trust, a stiff challenge. In this first year the individual participants make great strides in applying their personal values. However, negative competition and gossip continue to form an obstacle within the company. The progress achieved by the individual participants is (in)formally speaking above average; however their evaluation of the course is not all-out positive. esmachoho recommends to management to put a stop to the established culture of negative competition and gossip by setting the right example. Following this recommendation a number of the managers applied for executive coaching.