Next level coaching – reaching the summit of business success with ChamoiX Coaching TEXT: LAUREN WALKER | PHOTOS: KAROL JAWORSKI-RICHARDS
Deep in the French Alps, an hour’s drive from Geneva Airport, lie several picturesque chalets typical to the scenery of the Mont-Blanc mountain range. Famous for its amazing powder skiing and summer alpine sports, for some lucky leaders and firms it might become the feeding ground for success. In contrast to the grey office buildings often used for leadership and team development programmes, coaching and development firm ChamoiX Coaching uses the extreme mountain environment to bring out the best in people. They consider it to be the perfect base to organise development programmes, working with senior management, executive board and high potential levels — leaders of the future. 54 | Issue 73 | January 2020
ChamoiX’s executive coaches (affiliated with IMD business university in Lausanne), guide teams to reach their summit, and will teach leaders how to take care of themselves and their teams. After all, how can you lead others if you can’t lead yourself? The peaks and valleys reflect the highs and the lows faced on this journey and the mountains mirror the state of mind encountered when embarking on it.
Care to dare First things first! Do you take care of yourself as a leader? ChamoiX is now introducing the ‘self-care leadership’ course. Executive coaches, mountain guides, sleep and nutrition specialists challenge leaders of today to do research on their
inner values, fears, dreams and drives. Most leaders already know whether they are introvert or extravert, green or red or a high ‘C’ or ‘D’. That’s good. But it would be better to recognise your ‘State of Mind’. You’re always such a friendly and inspiring leader, until you’re facing a deadline or budget, losing energy and focus because you’re always tired. By researching the complete spectrum of your intellectual, emotional, physical, spiritual and executional behaviours, you will learn who you are under different circumstances. You will learn to recognise your actions from various intelligences, related to different states of mind, and become an always inspiring and energetic leader who cares for a sustainable future.