Taking up a new role
Taking up a role in an organisation with collective or matrix governance: establishing legitimacy and priorities where formal authority is not enough.
Coaching · in Geneva
Executive and management coaching in the canton of Geneva
An individual working space for directors, executives and managers in Geneva, in an environment where careers are mobile and structures are rarely hierarchical.
Working in the canton of Geneva
Geneva concentrates international organisations, private banks, commodity traders and a dense network of small and mid-sized firms. Teams are frequently multicultural: a Geneva-based manager often leads colleagues of many nationalities, with English as the meeting language and French as the language of daily work. That diversity makes personnel decisions harder to judge on a single interview — the unwritten rules differ from one culture to another.
Most common working languages in Geneva: French and English, sometimes German.
Coaching in Geneva: what we secure
Tense situations and hard decisions
Taking responsibility for a multicultural team: adjusting feedback and posture to expectations that differ sharply from one colleague to another.
Developing your management practice
Running a family firm or a Geneva subsidiary of an international group: balancing local bodies against a headquarters in another country.
Coaching Geneva: where we intervene
We work in the cities below and cover the whole canton of Geneva.
Coaching in other cantons
The same support, adapted to each canton's economic fabric.
Coaching Geneva: why choose SHR
Coaching Geneva with SHR starts from a concrete goal set with the coachee and shared with the organisation: a new role, leadership presence, team management or workload balance. Every Coaching Geneva engagement aims at visible change at work.
Coaching Geneva relies on a three-way contract, spaced sessions and real situations worked on between meetings. Confidentiality is guaranteed: the organisation knows the goals of the Coaching Geneva, never the content.
Our coaches know the local context and can run the Coaching Geneva in the coachee’s working language, on site, at a neutral venue or online.
At the end of the Coaching Geneva, a three-way review measures what has changed. To start Coaching Geneva, a no-commitment first meeting checks that the working relationship can form.
How SHR coaching works — Coaching Geneva
Useful coaching is judged by what changes at work, not by how comfortable the sessions feel. We start from a goal set with the coachee and agreed with the organisation, then track progress against it.
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Chemistry meeting
A no-commitment conversation to check the fit between coach and coachee. If the alliance does not form, we propose another coach — it is the first condition for success.
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Three-way contract
Coachee, manager or HR, and coach agree on two or three observable goals and on what stays confidential. The organisation knows the goals, never the content of sessions.
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Working sessions
Spaced sessions that leave time to experiment in between: real situations, preparing difficult conversations, field feedback. Tools such as 360° feedback are used only when they serve the goal.
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Review
A three-way review of the original goals, what has changed, what remains and how the organisation can support what comes next.
What coaching delivers in practice
- Written, shared goals reviewed at mid-point
- A clear confidentiality frame for the coachee
- A structured final review with the manager or HR
- Ways to consolidate progress after the engagement ends
What coaching is not
It is not therapy, not a disguised disciplinary measure and not a way to load an organisational problem onto one person. When the difficulty lies in structure, role or team, we say so and suggest the right lever.
Reference points we rely on
Meta-analyses of workplace coaching report positive effects on performance, well-being and self-regulation, while stressing the weight of relationship quality and clear goals. Our coaches follow a recognised code of ethics: confidentiality, no conflicts of interest, and referral to another professional when a need is clinical.
- Theeboom, T., Beersma, B., & van Vianen, A. E. M. (2014). Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(1), 1–18.
- Jones, R. J., Woods, S. A., & Guillaume, Y. R. F. (2016). The effectiveness of workplace coaching: A meta-analysis of learning and performance outcomes from coaching. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89(2), 249–277.
- International Coaching Federation (2020). ICF Code of Ethics.
Frequently asked questions — coaching in the canton of Geneva
Does coaching in Geneva take place on site or remotely?
Both. Sessions run at your premises, in our offices in Lancy or by videoconference; most participants alternate the two formats according to their calendar.
How many sessions should be planned?
An engagement is usually designed around six to ten sessions, with objectives set at the start and reviewed along the way. A progress review is made after three or four sessions.
How many coaching sessions should be planned in Geneva?
Six to ten sessions as a rule, with objectives set at the start and a review after three or four meetings. The pace follows your calendar.
Is coaching in Geneva confidential?
Yes. Session content is not passed to management or to third parties without your explicit agreement. The languages most used in Geneva are French and English, sometimes German.
A situation to work on in the canton of Geneva?
Describe the situation in a few lines: we call you back to frame the request and propose a method suited to it.
SHR — Swiss Human Resources — Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy (Genève), Suisse · Monday–Friday, 8am–6pm.