Coaching & Training
Life and work, coached, trained and workshopped by an extremely versatile and innovative coach/trainer.
Highly effective and compelling personal development and business skills, personally handcrafted to suit your needs, because you or your staff deserve outstanding support, from someone who understands that one size does not fit all!
Claire has been a company Head Life Coach as well as running her own practice, in the fields of personal development, soft skills, executive, business and communication coaching, in one-on-one, group, and training work for some years now. She has always endeavoured to bring about remarkable individual, team or company metamorphosis, coming from an arts/business/education background herself.
As she says: “Transforming individual practices, company or organisational culture – and productivity from the inside out – starts with YOU – the staff member, manager, director, board member, CEO – YOU. Whoever you are and whatever your role, it contributes vitally to the ethos of the company.”
Claire’s experience is notable in that she seldom uses common or well-worn techniques to merely assist in coping with life or work. She’s extremely innovative and loves devising fresh physical tools and strategies, to set about ringing significant changes in the human psyche or creating lasting team or company transformation. Customising her work to meet people’s or company needs is her passion!
Her take on the coaching front: “change within the self leads to the joy of self-actualisation and utilising skills effectively, and conceivably, brilliantly! Which in turn leads to better relationships with others, enhanced teamwork, developing renewed passion in the company, the brand, the products and the services.”
And Claire’s work, as always, is hugely informative, interactive, engaging and entertaining, handling groups of up to 40 people at a time in a training scenario.
Claire is well-known in this field for her versatility: in both the coaching and training domains, she is highly experienced in working topics from stress and anger management, emotional and behavioural awareness/change, and even diet and health coaching; right up to business etiquette, workplace readiness, strategic thinking, leadership and management skills and organisational change. She has both coached and trained communication and vocal skills, presentation skills, soft skills (time management, assertiveness, EQ, anger, stress and conflict management), as well as improving confidence, work performance and goal setting. Coaching on career choices is another one of her strengths.
Storyvolution:
Your Amazing Inner Story
Other examples of Claire’s versatility (and innovation) include:
-A focus on retrenchment (in the individual coaching, workshop and speaking domains): how to cope with it, find the resilience, and use specific tools to deal with it. During this foray into a relatively new type of coaching which she saw the need for, devised, marketed and ran extensively, she was twice invited onto the Azania Mosaka show on 702 Talk Radio, not just to talk about the work she was doing, but to give tips to the public on how to approach and manage retrenchment. Her programme ‘Coping with Retrenchment’ was subsequently recorded by the Startup Tribe as an online course and shown worldwide.
– Devising and customising trainings specifically on topics needed by companies: good examples would be ‘handling the media in tough situations’; ‘countering negativity and disillusionment in the company’ (this for 200 people); ‘how to Skype effectively in company meetings’; ‘presenting in a room and online simultaneously’. And more!
2022 saw her run a self-devised coaching and training programme called ‘Storyvolution’ to tackle behavioural change in individuals and team build in companies.
Claire is always ready to see the need, put the creative juices to work, and create for you or innovate!
Claire’s work has not only been for adults, but also for the older teen market too: lecturing at colleges on student development – including time management, performance anxiety, research essays, diet and nutrition etc. – as well as the art of freelancing (run as a workshop at many higher education institutions).
Higher education training and workshop work has also included lecturing and assisting lecturers on how to lecture and present to students effectively.
Her clients over the years have included:
- Members of the public
- The top 10 SA Idol finalists, organisations, forums, companies, business entrepreneurs, company directors, and company staff.
- Educational institutions – universities, colleges and schools.
Do contact Claire for more information or to request a CV!