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New Corporate Culture

Creating a new high-performance corporate culture.

Innovative programs that transform any new strategy into reality through altering behaviors.

Creating New Culture Programs®

Engage the leader

Engage the leaders

The change has to be initiated from the top.

The whole program has to be supported by the top

Engage the people

Engage the people

in the whole process of change, co-creating the desired future.

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”.

Aristotle 384-322 BC

When do you need to create a new or re-examine your corporate culture?

In times of small or major changes or unpredictable crises

Old processes, beliefs and desires must be re-examined. The old must be replaced by something new.

When peolpe' engagement is weak and you dont know why

Conflicts, unsatisfaction, complaints drain your energy and resources. Talented people abandon the ship.

When the market dictates new products or services

The market is no longer known and approachable. Product life cycle must be rejuvenated.

Who can benefit from my corporate culture programs

Companies that need to:

Co-create a new or re-examine their existed glue and trigger for progress and sustainability. Thus, their culture, needs, values, beliefs, and behaviors.

Enhance leadership effectiveness and engagement.

Inspire and engage personnel.

Successfully introduce a new process, strategy, or/and organization.

Be endorsed in times of crisis.

“Tell me, and I will forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I will understand.”

Confucius 450 BC

Why me? Because I can be your cultural change coach, for sure.

I have dedicated my professional life to helping businesses and their people enjoy a creative and effective dialogue for over 20 years now. I did this by introducing the best HR systems and training.

In the last 10 years of my professional life as I have been trained and certified from the most reputable institutes, I have realized the 1-1 and team coaching are the most effective catalysts for positive change.

Therefore I use a combination of all my expertise in HR consulting, leadership training, and coaching in the programs I apply successfully for corporate rejuvenation and sustainability.

I have outstanding proven results so I am convinced and more than motivated to help your business thrive, partnering with their people, their main resource toward a compelling vision and future. From a small change up to a resurrection.  The only way is up. So, let me show you and build your own ladder of success.

Action and resilience

Panos Malakoudis, ACC
CSTP 6 Graduate | Accociate Certified Coach by ICF | Microsoft Coaching Strategy Lead

Barbara is more than an award-winning coach, trainer, and author. She is a remarkable person. She introduced me to numerous important theories, behaviors, and virtues, but most importantly, she pushed me to take action and demonstrate the necessary resilience. I am grateful

"Important and effective program"

Ioanna Georgiou
HR Executive

I am ready to create vision with my team to which everyone will be engaged. Important and effective program.

"We have the power to influence our lives"

Efi Papadogianni,
Director at KONE

And our wider environment even with small simple things! I also learnt to be able to react to challenges such as "what do we do in this situation where we are?"

"Exceeded my expectations"

Giannis Kreatsoulis
Agency Manager NN Hellas

This program exceeded my expectations. Trainers immediately won the sincere and enthusiastic participation of my sales people and overcame any initial reservations. I was impressed by the atmosphere.. Smiles and energy.

"Barbara works deeply,with passion, gaining trust and achieving positive changes and a great performance

Dimitris Poulos
Managing Director Alfa Laval Greece

Being cooperated with Barbara in a leadership program in my current company. She has really delivered extraordinary results in the behaviors of my employees. Her work is personal with passion with people. Fully recommend for coaching and leadership programs.

"The results and feedback have been impressive"

Alessia Villa
HR Manager Region Adriatic presso Alfa Laval

Barbara supported me in a very important project for Coaching and Developing our Leaders in Greece. I really recommend Barbara's work for her warm approach and business-focused mindset.

"It 's wonderful to work with Barbara"

Stathis Ioannou
Financial Controller

She has an exceptional expertise in coaching. She made me feel comfortable for all my issues and worries. She is very dedicated and methodical. Always ready for help! Thank you Barbara for your exiting leadership development coaching!

New Corporate Culture

What you get from my corporate culture programs

6-month program - Set and apply new more beneficial behaviors

12-month Program - Set and apply new more beneficial behaviors

“A facilitator solves problems; a team coach builds capabilities, collective learning and development!”

 

My 4-keys stepping stones for introducing a new or change an existing corporate culture.

 

Leadership engagement

Personnel involvement

Appropriate systems that ensure everyday practice and

INSPIRATION!

Your Coach

Barbara Asimakopoulou, MBA, PCC, Greece

#1 Coach in Athens 2021, award-winning HR Award 2020 for the most innovative leadership skills development program, ICF Professional Certified Coach, Marshall Goldsmith Certified Leadership Coach, Team Coach by Peter Hawkins, ICF approved Coaching Training Program Author & Provider, visionary and innovative entrepreneur, author & speaker with an international reputation, and one of the top female leadership thinkers in Greece.

Call me to design your tailor-made program according to your desires

FAQ.

What does corporate culture mean?

Corporate culture is expressed by the way management and employees behave and communicate according to their beliefs, needs, values, and habits.

What does coaching culture mean?

Coaching Culture is expressed when management and employees behave and communicate in a positive, open, trusted way, with goodwill, and care for the co-learning and co-development of their team and their own.

Moreover, they are aware of their aspirations and skills, ask powerful questions, practice active listening, build trust, design and follow plans with accountability, and inspire others to continuous improvement and self-awareness.

How can a well-established culture change?

A well-established corporate culture has to change when an important need arises.

This need can be internal or external.

When people understand this need, trust the leader and the process of change, they can be valuable partners in the whole process.

Accountability, practice, follow-up, monitoring, commitment are crucial factors in this challenging journey toward new more beneficial behaviors and beliefs.

How can the confidentiallity between the coach and the coachees be ensured?

Any ICF coach must demonstrate ethical practice: understands and consistently applies coaching ethics and standards. ICF coaches follow strictly the highest standard of the competencies and the ethical behavior of ICF.

ICF Professionals who accept the Code of Ethics strive to be ethical, even when doing so involves making difficult decisions or acting courageously.

According to the ICF Code of Ethics

As an ICF Professional, I:

3. Maintain the strictest levels of confidentiality with all parties as agreed upon. I am aware of and agree to comply with all applicable laws that pertain to personal data and communications.
4. Have a clear understanding of how information is exchanged among all parties involved during all coaching interactions.

7. Maintain, store and dispose of any records, including electronic files and communications, created during my professional interactions in a manner that promotes confidentiality, security, and privacy and complies with any applicable laws and agreements. Furthermore, I seek to make proper use of emerging and growing technological developments that are being used in coaching services (technology-assisted coaching services) and be aware of how various ethical standards apply to them

How is coaching distinct from other professions?

Professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes, and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.

  • Therapy: Therapy deals with healing pain, dysfunction, and conflict within an individual or in relationships. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual’s emotional functioning in the present.  Coaching, on the other hand, supports personal and professional growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is future-focused. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one’s work or personal life.
  • Consulting: Individuals or organizations retain consultants for their expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, the assumption is the consultant will diagnose problems and prescribe and, sometimes, implement solutions. With coaching, the assumption is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.
  • Mentoring: A mentor is an expert who provides wisdom and guidance based on his or her own experience. Mentoring may include advising, counseling and coaching. The coaching process does not include advising or counseling and focuses instead on individuals or groups setting and reaching their own objectives.
  • Training: Training programs are based on objectives set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached, with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path that coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum.
  • Athletic Development: Though sports metaphors are often used, professional coaching is different from sports coaching. The athletic coach is often seen as an expert who guides and directs the behavior of individuals or teams based on his or her greater experience and knowledge. Professional coaches possess these qualities, but their experience and knowledge of the individual or team determine the direction. The focus is on identifying opportunities for development based on individual strengths and capabilities.

ICF Code of Ethics-Why an ICF Professional coach is an ethical coach?

1. INTRODUCTION
The ICF Code of Ethics describes the core values of the International Coaching Federation (ICF Core Values), and ethical principles, and ethical standards of behavior for all ICF Professionals (see definitions). Meeting these ICF ethical standards of behavior is the first of the ICF core coaching competencies (ICF Core Competencies). That is “Demonstrates ethical practice: understands and consistently applies coaching ethics and standards.”

The ICF Code of Ethics serves to uphold the integrity of ICF and the global coaching profession by:
• Setting standards of conduct consistent with ICF core values and ethical principles.
• Guiding ethical reflection, education, and decision-making
• Adjudicating and preserving ICF coach standards through the ICF Ethical Conduct Review (ECR) process
• Providing the basis for ICF ethics training in ICF-accredited programs

The ICF Code of Ethics applies when ICF Professionals represent themselves as such, in any kind of coaching-related interaction. This is regardless of whether a coaching Relationship (see definitions) has been established. This Code articulates the ethical obligations of ICF Professionals who are acting in their different roles as coach, coach supervisor, mentor coach, trainer or student coach-in-training, or serving in an ICF Leadership role, as well as Support Personnel (see definitions).
Although the Ethical Conduct Review (ECR) process is only applicable to ICF Professionals, as is the Pledge, the ICF Staff are also committed to ethical conduct and the Core Values and Ethical Principles that underpin this ICF code of ethics.

The challenge of working ethically means that members will inevitably encounter situations that require responses to unexpected issues, resolution of dilemmas and solutions to problems.

This Code of Ethics is intended to assist those persons subject to the Code by directing them to the variety of ethical factors that may need to be taken into consideration and helping to identify alternative ways of approaching ethical behavior.
ICF Professionals who accept the Code of Ethics strive to be ethical, even when doing so involves making difficult decisions or acting courageously.
2. KEY DEFINITIONS
• “Client”—the individual or team/group being coached, the coach being mentored or supervised, or the coach or the student coach being trained.
• “Coaching”- partnering with Clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.
• “Coaching Relationship”—a relationship that is established by the ICF Professional and the Client(s)/Sponsor(s) under an agreement or a contract that defines the responsibilities and expectations of each party.
• “Code”—ICF Code of Ethics
• “Confidentiality”—protection of any information obtained around the coaching engagement unless consent to release is given.
• “Conflict of Interest”—a situation in which an ICF Professional is involved in multiple interests where serving one interest could work against or be in conflict with another. This could be financial, personal or otherwise.
• “Equality”—a situation in which all people experience inclusion, access to resources and opportunity, regardless of their race, ethnicity, national origin, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, immigration status, mental or physical disability, and other areas of human difference.
• “ICF Professional”—individuals who represent themselves as an ICF Member or ICF Credential-holder, in roles including but not limited to Coach, Coach Supervisor, Mentor Coach, Coach Trainer, and Student of Coaching
• “ICF Staff”— the ICF support personnel who are contracted by the managing company that provides professional management and administrative services on behalf of ICF.
• “Internal Coach”— an individual who is employed within an organization and coaches either part-time or full-time the employees of that organization.
• “Sponsor”—the entity (including its representatives) paying for and/or arranging or defining the coaching services to be provided.
• “Support Personnel”—the people who work for ICF Professionals in support of their Clients.
• “Systemic equality”—gender equality, race equality and other forms of equality that are institutionalized in the ethics, core values, policies, structures, and cultures of communities, organizations, nations and society.
3. ICF CORE VALUES AND ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
The ICF Code of Ethics is based on the ICF Core Values (link) and the actions that flow from them. All values are equally important and support one another. These values are aspirational and should be used as a way to understand and interpret the standards. All ICF Professionals are expected to showcase and propagate these Values in all their interactions.
4. ETHICAL STANDARDS
The following ethical standards are applied to the professional activities of ICF Professionals:
Section I – Responsibility to clients
As an ICF Professional, I:
1. Explain and ensure that, prior to or at the initial meeting, my coaching Client(s) and Sponsor(s) understand the nature and potential value of coaching, the nature and limits of confidentiality, financial arrangements, and any other terms of the coaching agreement.
2. Create an agreement/contract regarding the roles, responsibilities and rights of all parties involved with my Client(s) and Sponsor(s) prior to the commencement of services.
3. Maintain the strictest levels of confidentiality with all parties as agreed upon. I am aware of and agree to comply with all applicable laws that pertain to personal data and communications.
4. Have a clear understanding about how information is exchanged among all parties involved during all coaching interactions.
5. Have a clear understanding with both Clients and Sponsors or interested parties about the conditions under which information will not be kept confidential (e.g., illegal activity, if required by law, pursuant to valid court order or subpoena; imminent or likely risk of danger to self or to others; etc.). Where I reasonably believe one of the above circumstances is applicable, I may need to inform appropriate authorities.
6. When working as an Internal Coach, manage conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest with my coaching Clients and Sponsor(s) through coaching agreement(s) and ongoing dialogue. This should include addressing organizational roles, responsibilities, relationships, records, confidentiality and other reporting requirements.
7. Maintain, store and dispose of any records, including electronic files and communications, created during my professional interactions in a manner that promotes confidentiality, security and privacy and complies with any applicable laws and agreements. Furthermore, I seek to make proper use of emerging and growing technological developments that are being used in coaching services (technology-assisted coaching services) and be aware how various ethical standards apply to them.
8. Remain alert to indications that there might be a shift in the value received from the coaching relationship. If so, make a change in the relationship or encourage the Client(s)/Sponsor(s) to seek another coach, seek another professional or use a different resource.
9. Respect all parties’ right to terminate the coaching relationship at any point for any reason during the coaching process subject to the provisions of the agreement.
10. Am sensitive to the implications of having multiple contracts and relationships with the same Client(s) and Sponsor(s) at the same time in order to avoid conflict of interest situations.
11. Am aware of and actively manage any power or status difference between the Client and me that may be caused by cultural, relational, psychological or contextual issues.
12. Disclose to my Clients the potential receipt of compensation, and other benefits I may receive for referring my Clients to third parties.
13. Assure consistent quality of coaching regardless of the amount or form of agreed compensation in any relationship.
Section II – Responsibility to practice and performance
As an ICF Professional, I:
14. Adhere to the ICF Code of Ethics in all my interactions. When I become aware of a possible breach of the Code by myself or I recognize unethical behavior in another ICF Professional, I respectfully raise the matter with those involved. If this does not resolve the matter, I refer it to a formal authority (e.g., ICF Global) for resolution.
15. Require adherence to the ICF Code of Ethics by all Support Personnel.
16. Commit to excellence through continued personal, professional and ethical development.
17. Recognize my personal limitations or circumstances that may impair, conflict with or interfere with my coaching performance or my professional coaching relationships. I will reach out for support to determine the action to be taken and, if necessary, promptly seek relevant professional guidance. This may include suspending or terminating my coaching relationship(s).
18. Resolve any conflict of interest or potential conflict of interest by working through the issue with relevant parties, seeking professional assistance, or suspending temporarily or ending the professional relationship.
19. Maintain the privacy of ICF Members and use the ICF Member contact information (email addresses, telephone numbers, and so on) only as authorized by ICF or the ICF Member.
Section III – Responsibility to professionalism
As an ICF Professional, I:
20. Identify accurately my coaching qualifications, my level of coaching competency, expertise, experience, training, certifications and ICF Credentials.
21. Make verbal and written statements that are true and accurate about what I offer as an ICF Professional, what is offered by ICF, the coaching profession, and the potential value of coaching.
22. Communicate and create awareness with those who need to be informed of the ethical responsibilities established by this Code.
23. Hold responsibility for being aware of and setting clear, appropriate and culturally sensitive boundaries that govern interactions, physical or otherwise.
24. Do not participate in any sexual or romantic engagement with Client(s) or Sponsor(s). I will be ever mindful of the level of intimacy appropriate for the relationship. I take the appropriate action to address the issue or cancel the engagement.
Section IV – Responsibility to society
As an ICF Professional, I:
25. Avoid discrimination by maintaining fairness and equality in all activities and operations, while respecting local rules and cultural practices. This includes, but is not limited to, discrimination on the basis of age, race, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, disability or military status.
26. Recognize and honor the contributions and intellectual property of others, only claiming ownership of my own material. I understand that a breach of this standard may subject me to legal remedy by a third party.
27. Am honest and work within recognized scientific standards, applicable subject guidelines, and boundaries of my competence when conducting and reporting research.
28. Am aware of my and my clients’ impact on society. I adhere to the philosophy of “doing good,” versus “avoiding bad.”
5. THE PLEDGE OF ETHICS OF THE ICF PROFESSIONAL:
As an ICF Professional, in accordance with the Standards of the ICF Code of Ethics, I acknowledge and agree to fulfill my ethical and legal obligations to my coaching Client(s), Sponsor(s), colleagues and to the public at large.
If I breach any part of the ICF Code of Ethics, I agree that the ICF in its sole discretion may hold me accountable for so doing. I further agree that my accountability to the ICF for any breach may include sanctions, such as mandatory additional coach training or other education or loss of my ICF Membership and/or my ICF Credentials.
For more information on the Ethical Conduct Review Process including the links to file a complaint, please click the link below.

Ethical Conduct Review Process

Adopted by the ICF Global Board of Directors September 2019

Why to choose a credentialed coach by ICF, ACC, PCC, MCC?

ICF Credentials, ACC, PCC, MCC, are designated to professional coaches who have met rigorous education and experience requirements and have demonstrated mastery of the coaching competencies & code of ethics.

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