No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
Henry Mintzberg (Cleghorn Professorship of Management Studies Desautels Faculty of Management McGill University)The engineer has been, and is, a maker of history
James Kip Finch
Coaching is a unique and extraordinarily powerful approach to supporting clients. Coaching is also a revolutionary approach to human development that embodies a philosophy of empowerment with a process of ongoing support. Coaching helps functional people reach extraordinary results.
Whether you are facing challenges in your personal life or at work, Coaching is a very efficient process to help you.
If you are facing the following (or similar) challenges I can help you:
- Your work-life balance is difficult, having a hard time let go of work when you get back home
- You are an employee or Engineer who has just been promoted and you are struggling
- You have a hard time dealing with the human side of the job, working with former colleagues, giving constructive feedback, motivating people
- You are struggling to take your team to the next level
- Workload management and time management is difficult
- You need to let go of some old habits from your past job and embrace new ones to be more effective
- Or you just want to reach your full potential and do your best at work
Who is Pierre?
I am a certifed coach and consultant with almost two decades of experience as a front line manager and engineer in Telecommunications. I also have five years of experience in civil engineering. During the course of my career, I was priviledged to hold close to twenty different positions in several areas of technology. I was also blessed to work in many different locations all over Canada and in the US. Those diversified experiences enabled me to understand and master the principles of management and leadership.
Coaching
Coaching is a very efficient way to reach your goals. The coaching process which takes place on a weekly basis for a minimum period of four months, will ensure that you will clearly identify your objectives and you will work regularly to reach them.
I like to work with well established managers and engineers who want to increase their impact on their team and take their game to the next level.
I also like to help new leaders, whether they are engineers, technicians or employees who recently transitioned to a position of leadership and aspiring leaders who want to take the big leap. Becoming a manager is a very challenging and transforming experience which is sometimes compared to parenthood (Becoming a Manager Linda Hill).
Coaching is about exploring all your possibilities in all the areas of your work and life. If you get to the realization that something is possible, you will certainly give it a try.
I can help you develop the tools and strategies that will make a real difference in your life. Coaching can help you bridge the big gap between where you are and what you want to achieve!
How I work with clients
Real change takes a lot of time and effort. I offer 2 typical packages but we can design a package together that will meet your requirements.
Contact me for a free sample coaching session. Click here.
I am a specialist in major work transitions
What i teach, do i live!
John C. Maxwell
This quote is really paramount to me. If I had not been through huge transitions myself, I would not pretend that I can really help people go through major transitions at work!
Be the change you want to see in the world!
Gandhi
Also, In order to live my passion and my dreams and show people that it can be done, I have decided to undertake this journey of becoming an entrepreneur in consulting and coaching in the hope that it will inspire some people to take their own journey and to live their passion and their dream (see more in About Pierre/long bio)
Through coaching I can help you:
- Transition In your new promotion/company/project
- Accelerate the process to go through a major work transition successfully
- Avoid the huge waste of time and money that can be generated by a major work transition.
- Help you gain many years by taking the right path and making the right decisions in your career.
- Identify your goals
- Define what is required to reach your goals
- Implement and follow a strategy
- Help you identify the good habits that were serving you in your prior position but that won’t serve you in your new position, and eliminate them
- Identify the new habits or skills you need to develop, and implement them
Examples of major career transitions:
- Becoming a Manager
- Becoming an entrepreneur
- Being promoted
- Changing companies
- Being relocated or getting a foreign assignment
- Becoming a leader instead of a follower
- Moving office out of or into home
- Major expansion or downsizing
- Decentralization
- Mergers and Takeovers
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I am a specialist in leading in a unionized environment
In the first part of my career (1997), I have started a union movement with 2 colleagues and I became the leader. The negotiation lasted 14 months and it was an uphill battle to defend our rights. This was a very tough and rewarding experience which ended with a positive outcome (decent wages and secure jobs) for about 25 employees.
In the second part of my career, I have managed over 200 peoples in many different teams ranging from 6 to 22 individuals. This allowed me to see both sides of the coin.
These experiences gave me a good understanding and they helped me become an efficient and effective Front Line Manager in a unionized environment.
Through coaching I can help you:
- Improve your relationship with the union
- Build a collaborative instead of confronting relationship with Union stewards
- Get the best from your employees despite the “preconceived” constraints of a unionized environment
- Improve the relationship with employees
- Increase you leadership and effectiveness with people
I am a specialist in Front Line Leadership & Management
The ultimate leaders in the middle of the military-the Sergeants: the months in the desert had reinforced my longstanding conviction that sergeants really were the backbone of the army.
Tommy Franks (US General)
I also stongly believe frontline managers are the backbone of companies!
Front-line managers make up roughly 60% of a company’s management ranks. They directly supervise around 80% of the total workforce
The frontline advantage – Fred Hassan – Harvard Business Review May 2011.No job is more vital to our society than that of the manager. It is the manager who determines whether our social institutions serve us well or whether they squander our talents and resources.
Henry Mintzberg
During my 18 years career in telecom I have:
- Managed over 200 peoples in many different teams ranging from 6 to 22 individuals.
- Worked in more than 10 different cities (in 2 US States and 6 Canadian provinces).
- Worked in 3 different technologies (OSP-Outside Plant, COE-Central Office Equipment, Wireless)
- Worked In Operations, Maintenance, Administration, Change Management, Reorganization, Start-up, etc…
- Worked in 3 different companies (Vidéotron Télécom LTD, Expertech Network Installation, Bell Mobility)
See work experience for more details.
Therefore I have seen all kinds of people, environments, technologies, systems
Through coaching I can help you:
- Improve your Management skills
- Optimize your time management
- Optimize your E-mail Management
- Optimize your administrative skills
- Identify unproductive behaviours and replace them by productive ones
- Help you identify the bad habits that are hindering your productivity
- Identify the new habits or skills you need to develop to be more productive, and help you implement them
These improvements will allow you to spend more time where it matters the most, with your employees.
- Improve your leadership skills
- Assess your leadership influence
- Optimize your influence on your employees/peers/boss
- Solve your current leadership challenges at work
- Create a climate where people take charge of their work
- Define what are your growth possibilities
- Develop the tools and strategies to help you get there!
Packages
The profound changes in a person’s life takes time and effort and the coaching approach is best suited to support and generate these profound changes.
Benefits of having a coach:
- Working over a period of 4 months minimum will ensure that you will reach your desired results
- Define where you are in terms of your influence at work (leadership skills)
- Define where you are in terms of efficiency at work (management skills)
- Solve your current challenges at work and improve your leadership and management skills!
- Define what are your growth possibilities
- Develop the tools and strategies to help you get there!
The profound changes in a person’s life takes time and effort and the coaching approach is best suited to support and generate these profound changes.
Please note that it will be necessary to invest around 3 hours per week to complete homework/request/challenge, etc… that will be given by your coach. If you think that it is too much, this means you are not really committed to make real change.
Pay as you go: No payments are required upfront and you can leave whenever you want without any penalty.
4 months package:
| Sessions durations | 90 minutes |
| Number of sessions/month | 3 |
| Total number of sessions | 12 |
| Price | on request |
6 months package:
| Sessions durations | 90 minutes |
| Number of sessions/month | 3 |
| Total number of sessions | 18 |
| Price | on request |
Flexible package:
| Sessions durations | 30 to 90 minutes |
| Number of sessions/month | at your convenience |
| Total number of sessions | 12 minimum (in order to ensure progress and deep change) |
| Price | on request |