Taking up a new role
Taking over a research unit, a hospital department or an industrial division: moving from personal results to team results.
Coaching · in the canton of Vaud
Executive and management coaching in the canton of Vaud
Individual support for executives and directors in the canton of Vaud: taking up a role, making trade-offs, posture and leading a team, in Lausanne and across the canton.
Working in the canton of Vaud
The canton of Vaud brings together very different realities: the academic and technology hub of Lausanne, pharmaceutical and medtech firms, hospitals and a large public sector, spread across Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains, Nyon and Morges. A manager in Vaud often moves between a research environment and demanding operational logic, and public institutions and start-ups coexist a few kilometres apart.
Most common working languages in the canton of Vaud: French, with English in research teams and international groups.
Coaching in the canton of Vaud: what we secure
Tense situations and hard decisions
Structuring a Lausanne start-up or scale-up as it grows from a handful of people into a real organisation, without losing the culture that made it move.
Developing your management practice
Leading change in a public institution or a hospital: sequencing, convincing multiple partners and holding the course over time.
Coaching Vaud: where we intervene
We work in the cities below and cover the whole canton of Vaud.
Coaching in other cantons
The same support, adapted to each canton's economic fabric.
Coaching Vaud: why choose SHR
Coaching Vaud 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 Vaud engagement aims at visible change at work.
Coaching Vaud 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 Vaud, never the content.
Our coaches know the local context and can run the Coaching Vaud in the coachee’s working language, on site, at a neutral venue or online.
At the end of the Coaching Vaud, a three-way review measures what has changed. To start Coaching Vaud, a no-commitment first meeting checks that the working relationship can form.
How SHR coaching works — Coaching Vaud
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 Vaud
Can coaching in the canton of Vaud take place in Vevey or Montreux?
Yes. Sessions are held on your site, in a room close to you or by videoconference; we travel across the whole canton.
Can we start with a single session?
Yes. A first two-hour session clarifies the situation and the objectives; what follows is decided afterwards, with no minimum commitment.
How many coaching sessions should be planned in the canton of Vaud?
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 the canton of Vaud confidential?
Yes. Session content is not passed to management or to third parties without your explicit agreement. The languages most used in the canton of Vaud are French, with English in research teams and international groups.
A situation to work on in the canton of Vaud?
Describe the situation in a few lines: we call you back to frame the request and propose a method suited to it.
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