Elisa Pinault was 24 when she created her first company in 1976. She will have several. Today, this business manager has sold her stores to successfully convert to Personal Development Coaching and Management.
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She was barely 24 when she opened her first store. In lingerie, then leather goods, perfumery and ready-to-wear among others. She was at the head of 25 employees. After decades of hectic activity, Elisa Pinault sold her stores to convert to Personal Development Coaching and Management.
Self-entrepreneur, she does not approach companies. It is they who go to meet him with the eyes of Chimene. Structures of all sizes. Sometimes his clients have individual journeys. Their demands are as many as they are varied.
« How to manage a sales force team, manage changes in activity, support professional reorientation? Crisis management is an important part of my coaching activity. It is for example, a business manager who solicits me. Its employees complain about the behavior of a hierarchical superior. Deemed too authoritarian or too lax. Should he change his workstation? How to help him find the right tone and peaceful working relationships? Sometimes it is an employee who expresses his suffering at work. He feels burned out or unsuited to his new job. I see people who arrive depressed and who leave as transfigured …».
Even if the border is very thin, coaching is not therapy. ” Coaching is mental hygiene.»
Management coaching “these are the answers adapted to the resolution of the problem”
In her previous life as a business manager and trader, Elisa Pinault has gained experience and expertise, which consolidate her and consolidate her in her new activity.
« It’s nice to feel chosen. It is a recognition that obliges me. It’s a lot of upstream work. When I take care of, for example, a manager who has a problem with his team, you have to examine the company. Then you have to listen very actively to my client, identify their expectations. Step by step, we are going to put in place suitable responses to resolve the problem. I don’t give ready-made turnkey solutions. I am not a master in thinking. It is with small objectives achieved that we go to the end of the road. The contract is often a triptych. The employer, the employee and me. »
For a business, the creative process can take 6 to 8 months. Count ten sessions at the rate of a monthly meeting of one and a half to two hours each time. A work to be done is often given to the client to test changes in the company, to start a reorganization or a new direction for example.
« I have a whole workbook of exercises adapted to the needs. Transactional analysis, neurolinguistic or NLP programming, non-violent communication, cardiac coherence to learn to breathe for an emotional person. Difficult to list them all. It is the client who knows when he has reached his goal. He feels like he’s freed from a weight. Everything becomes more fluid. Coaching is often a cry for help to break the deadlock. »
Coaching in personal development and management is less hectic than the life of a business manager and association manager. Elisa Pinault is a leading woman. A working-girl. Married mother of 3 children, president of Vitrines d’Orléans for 11 years and now self-employed. And pegged to the body, the same passion that drives him. Still and always. Her fuel is the others.
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