Kouka HR – Act & Be
Our HR and training services
Career coaching
How will a better knowledge of your way of operating facilitate your performance ?
Personal and vocational assessment
The first stage in career coaching is to discover oneself. You have the potential and we shall help you to find the keys to use it.We provide support in :
- Analysing your skills and your assets
- Defining your motives
- Discovering the impact of your image, your visibility and your performance
- Managing your digital identity (personal branding)
Vocational redirection
The second stage in career coaching is to develop your potential in terms of vocational objectives. It is important to choose the vocational development that suits you inside or outside the business: we shall help you to discover the elements that will allow you to grow.We shall help you to :
- Choose the path that is right for you and redirect you if necessary
- Build and maintain your network
- Find your positioning
Team coaching
How can you facilitate the cohesion of new teams, or changing teams ?
Our profession involves optimising the way your teams operate in order to increase your future performance. Our team coaching sessions enable middle managers and their team to evolve successfully by :
- Encouraging cooperation between team members and departments
- Promoting better communication
We use recognised tools such as MBTI and DISC (Ensize colour puzzle).
The Springboard programme
Designed by and for women !
The Springboard© programme was designed by and for women to enable them to take more control over their own development. It was created in England over twenty years ago by Liz Willis and Jenny Daisley and has been adapted in over 35 countries. It is recognised worldwide for its teaching approach and its results.
Springboard© offers a global approach aiming to support women’s vocational development by harmonising it with their values and their personal environment.
Boost your potential and take charge of your development
We offer action-packed days of individual and group workshops in order to :
- Develop your self-confidence and assertiveness
- Establish your own goals in harmony with your values
- Put yourself across positively and work on your visibility
- Decide on your work-life balance
- Increase your energy
Obtain concrete results
The results obtained are linked to the individual objectives that each woman sets herself at the first session. A large number of women use this programme to obtain results at work such as new qualifications, new skills, promotion, openness to change, a more positive attitude and a great boost to their self-confidence.
Other women concentrate on results affecting their personal life, such as getting out of difficult relationships, learning to manage stress and finding a balance between their private and professional lives.
In general, the Springboard programme allows you to :
- Make a realistic self-assessment
- Identify your priorities
- Improve your assertiveness
- Establish concrete objectives
- Boost self-confidence
- Manage your stress
- Present a positive image
- Improve your communication skills
- Create better relationships and networks
In practical terms, Springboard involves :
- 4 days of training spread over 3 months
- A structured approach and realistic advice
- A 250 page workbook for personal study
- Thought-provoking discussion sessions during the group days
- Developing an active network between participants
For further information about the Springboard programme, click on the links below
Some testimonies from participants
"The fact that the programme combines group and individual work makes it very complete. It allows every participant to progress at her own speed and concentrate on the subjects that seem the most interesting to her. It promotes openness to others and sharing experience, and it gives you positive energy."
"On the professional level, I am much more confident and I have understood how important it is to be visible. I devote as much energy to this as possible."
"The help and challenges during the training allowed me to take steps in order to take charge of my life. I learnt to give priority to my own interests and to defend them all the way, while maintaining an honest and respectful attitude that corresponds to what I am on the deepest level."
Training
Developing and strengthening your team’s skills
Our training programmes are specifically designed to develop or strengthen your employees’ and teams’ skills. They are also intended for new contractors or buyers.
Our training will allow your employees and managers to :
- Understand their style of communication, and those of other people
- Discover and understand their style of management / leadership
- Develop their assertiveness
- Manage their time / their priorities
- Learn to delegate
- Organise and facilitate effective meetings
- Prepare and conduct assessment and performance interviews etc.
- Get different generations to collaborate in a team (baby-boomers and generation Y)
- Get involved in promoting integration of new employees and the loyalty of senior ones
Specific training
You can also consult our Springboard programme : a module specifically designed for the vocational and personal development of your female employees.
Results obtained
- Boosts self-confidence
- Improves capacity to manage change
- Helps focus on looking for solutions rather than on problems
- Improves communication skills
- Greater enthusiasm for taking on responsibilities
- Boosts optimism and openness to change
- Improves problem solving
- Boosts motivation and concentration
- Improves customer service skills
HR Consultancy
How can you align your HR strategy with the development of your business ?
We offer you pragmatic solutions using various tools
such as :
such as :
- Mapping skills and behaviour
- Staff assessment
- Managing later careers (45+)
- Establishing training plans aligned with needs for skills
Act & Be also conducts career assessments and offers business employees support in finding jobs.
