A bridge between coach and psychologist
Stress means many different things to different people. What we know for sure is that, left unattended, it can lead to disharmony in both professional and home life, and eventually, to burnout.
For decades, work challenges among leaders has been a silent stigma. But there should be no shame in dealing with issues that affect your working capacity just as none is attached to a physical injury.
According to a recent Korn Ferry survey, nearly two thirds of professionals say their stress levels at work are higher than they were five years ago.
Essential Conversations offers a bridge between the two common solutions for when leaders and managers encounter intense stress: a coach or a psychologist. The coach has brilliant business insights but may not be able to support you beyond that world while the psychologist may not have knowledge of the specific nature of the challenges you are experiencing. With 15 years’ experience in providing support to leaders and managers, Essential Conversations provides the secure encouragement of a coach with the expertise of the psychologist.
If you want to free your head of obstacles and see the world more clearly, at work and at home, let’s start the conversation.
In a nutshell
What is Essential Conversations? It’s not a classic therapy centre or traditional counselling - but it provides the necessary support to help you navigate work stress better.
It’s a place that offers leaders, managers, and expats the opportunity to engage in conversations that cover a vast area of ground.
It’s a place where they can share their fears and concerns, lay down their guard and get the help and support they need and deserve.
For some, it may be about addressing worries of failure, of not being able to keep up their pace of success, of losing their job or status, or the fear of seeing their loved ones suffering as a consequence of their hectic work life.
For others, their teams may be falling apart, or their worst enemy appointed as their new boss – and often, it is a combination of the above happening all at once.
Others again, might be leading on unfamiliar territory and struggling to find their feet or hold their ground. If so, we can have that conversation too.
Essential Conversations was founded to create a safe place for leaders, managers and expats to talk in order to prevent burnout – and to recover from it.
We work with other health practitioners to provide a rounded conversation.
Some facts
With the goal of fact-finding and identifying the causes that make up the challenges many of our leaders and managers currently face, the EAP provider StressPulse Survey has conducted several studies as recent as 2019. Their research concluded that while most leaders and managers are committed to performing at their best, when stress become unmanageable the reasons are many.