A coaching case study with Coach Elwis Pajur de Oliveira:

The founder of the EPdO14 consulting institute shares insight into his coaching philosophy, the advantages of using CleverMemo and he reveals how he manages to get his clients to take constant action after each coaching session.

 

How would you describe yourself and your Coaching?

Success starts in my head! The greatest success in evaluating the effectiveness of my coaching is achieved through a realistic and authentic mixture of efficiency, effectiveness, relevance, impact, benefits, and sustainability!

 

What is your philosophy and understanding of Coaching?

People react to their depiction of reality – not to reality itself.
People always make the best choice based on the information that’s available to them. Sometimes strangers consider these actions or decisions malicious or even insane. Nevertheless, it is the only possible reaction for the organism at the very moment.

People function perfectly! Nobody is “broken”. Every behavior – which may be considered psychologically as a disorder – is to be appreciated as an achievement in dealing with the given circumstances.

People and systems already have all the necessary resources to achieve the desired changes. You just have to allow them to organize themselves in such a way that they have access to them at the right place at the right time.

 

How does a typical coaching process with you look like?

 

Find the goal – Determine the starting point

  • Find, check, define and write down the goal
  • The current status quo is now determined
  • Resources and prerequisites necessary for the way to the goal will be checked

The way to the goal is clarified

  • Small steps, stopovers, and milestones are set

The path to the goal starts

  • The route is gradually followed
  • Adaptation of the path to obstacles & challenges
  • Progress is regularly checked and documented
  • New insights will be integrated and adapted along the way
  • The entire journey is documented and accessible for both me and the client

You have reached your destination

  • The goal is accomplished, we evaluate the process, plan the next goal

 

In your opinion, what challenges arise if clients are coached only in sessions without being supported between them?

 

After a session, clients leave my office motivated, full of drive, and with good intentions. They go out into their usual everyday life. Here again, they are confronted with the stress and obligations of their daily routine.

These take away the focus and resources in different ways and thus easily lead to a distraction from the steps and goals discussed with me.

The children must be picked up from school. The partner reports on the recent doctor’s appointment and their head of department commission them with a new project. The focus, energy, and strength that are required to implement new patterns, habits, plans, or ideas compete with these everyday tasks.

 

This means that what is discussed in coaching is receding more and more in the background. Important details for the understanding and implementation of the change process get lost or fade away more and more every day.

 

Why did you decide to use CleverMemo?

 

For me as a coach, CleverMemo is and easy to use and structured tool. Clients continuously create their documentation of the journey, which leads to more sustainability and safeguarding of the insight they gained in each session. Ultimately, clients use the solutions from the sessions to take real action in their daily lives.

 

How exactly do you use CleverMemo in your everyday life as a coach?

 

In combination with the coaching software, I use the following helpful Coaching Toolkits from CleverMemo: Documentation, Mindfulness, Thought Control & Limiting Beliefs, Follow-up Coaching, Journaling, Work-life Balance, and Goal-Setting.

How has your everyday work changed through the use of CleverMemo and how does it affect the sustainable success of your clients?

CleverMemo enables me to provide intensive, flexible, and optimal process support between sessions. It’s very effective in securing the transfer from the session to the daily life of my clients. CleverMemo offers me flexibility in terms of time and location when working with my clients.

By prompting my clients to rework and reflect in their everyday life (because that’s where the real changes and results happen), their personal responsibility and self-management are strengthened. This ultimately leads to sustainability in Coaching. And the lasting success of my clients is the basis for my success.

 

Where do you see the greatest advantage of working with CleverMemo?

 

Clients stay focused on their topics and goals beyond our coaching sessions.
The postprocessing of the meetings clarifies the most important findings and summarizes the outlined steps.

A timely and at the same time regular feedback enables me to tailor the upcoming meetings and steps more personally and to the needs of each individual client. This is an effective way to find out how the jointly developed solutions work in practice and how clients feel about it.

 

Where can you learn more about yourself and your work?

On my Website, Facebook, and my Google business entry -> EPdO14 Consulting Institute

 

 

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