Is speed coaching coming to Europe?

Inspiredé by "speed dating", coaching séminaires éclair are making their appearance in Canada. With successès.

There were some sixty SME managers this afternoon à trying their hand at speed coaching, in this room at Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, near Montréal. The organizers set up a number of tables. On each table, a poster reflected the theme being discussed: marketing plans, networking, managing in difficult times or financing growth. Facing à an entrepreneur, each of the twenty-eight mentors tackles a theme, in 45 minutes.

A décollage récent

Then the leader moves à another table. The information must be êsimplifiedéand concreteèand the quality êof the information must be high. The quality éand credibility éof the experts is essential," explains Dominique Labrecque. Director of the universityés entrepreneurship center, it was for business leaders in a hurry that she came up with these séances inspiredéby speed dating, the éclear meetings between célibataires, which are sticking these days.

Sharing your problemsèmes

Teachers pout, for whom coaching cannot êbe an isolated encounterébut a follow-up. But at the end of the day, a company director confides: "Entrepreneurs, we're very inward-looking. We canèt share our feelings, our problems. Having a mentor allows us to have à our côtés someone with experience. Just à come back for more.

(Ludovic Hirtzmann, à Montréal)

Source: APEC