www.OptimismZone.com
Helen Mac is Australia’s Corporate Optimist, creating optimal performance through systematic improvements in attitude awareness, activity management and achievement focus.
Combining decades of experience in culture change with practical psychology based on her BA(Psych), Helen works with leaders, individual contributors and teams to develop an optimistic culture, delivering better outcomes.
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(1) Have you always wanted to be a coach or was there a PIVOTAL moment in your life that prompted the shift? Talking with people and helping them work through issues and questions has been part of my life since I was in my teens, so it feels like becoming a coach as part of my business was really just a formality!
As a teen, I worked with people younger than me who were becoming disconnected from their school, their family or their community. In my early years in organizations, I would often end up coaching colleagues about their relationships with other staff and managers.
Coaching conversations seem to occur in many parts of my life, including in my business, which is wonderful. I believe that the ideal business combines getting paid to do things you love to do with people that you enjoy working with and coaching fills those criteria for me. It also adds value to the larger projects that I do in organizational change and staff development.
(2) Who is your IDEAL client and how do you support them?
I have two “ideal client” groups and one that I am developing:
(A) I work with managers in organizations, coaching them on how to optimize the results of their team, covering leadership & management behaviours to engage & empower people as well as understanding how to increase the motivation of different people. This is often as part of a bigger project, including staff training workshops and follow-up sessions to maximize learning and implementation of new skills.
(B) I also do one-on-one coaching for small business owners and solo-preneurs wanting to get better outcomes. Sessions focus on the development and motivation of what I call the “Achievement Mindset” – Optimism! We also work on business marketing strategies, particularly on building connections and adding value.
(C) Occasionally I work one-on-one with individuals who just want “more out of life”. I am planning to run both face-to-face and online group coaching in this space in 2015.
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