In the past decade executive coaching as a development tool has emerged from the world of sport to become an important tool in personal development at home, at work, and option alongside counselling for those seeking to review life choices.
The coaching that Smaoineamh offers serves to unlock a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. The heart of its offering is the idea of empowering people by facilitating self-directed learning, personal growth and improved performance.

Common benefits of executive coaching include enhanced personal and organisational performance, better work-life balance, higher motivation, better self-reflection, optimised decision making and improved change management.
Techniques of listening, questioning, clarifying and giving feedback are key components within a framework of goals, strategies and actions. Good executive coaching encompasses the qualities of empathy, perspective, clear focus, intuition, objectivity and strength to challenge a coachee.
Executive coaching is forward focused and my belief when working with a client is that they have all the required resources within, the coach supports the coachee in uncovering their own knowledge and skills.
Executive coaching engagements are as unique as each individual client; all coaching that Smaoineamh offers starts with a free consultation where both coach and coachee discuss what is required and decide whether or not they want to take the journey forward together.
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As a result of Máire's coaching sessions, I now have the tools to see the wood from the trees.
During our sessions I found Máire to be a clear thinker, an excellent communicator and somebody to confide in.
I would recommend that anybody having similar challenges as I, to take the first step on your journey and talk with Máire.
Máire was and continues to be a great mentor to me. Over the last few months she has helped me become a better person working towards becoming the best that I can possibly be.
Máire has helped me professionally in helping me understand why some work place relationships were not working. The insight and skills Máire shared with me enabled me to accept that these relationships did not work as my values and beliefs were different to my colleagues. This insight enabled me to accept and manage these relationships differently in a way that enabled me to get on with my work successfully.
Máire helped me on a personal level also. I now understand and appreciate that it is important to be good to yourself; this thought process enables me to be the best person that I can possibly be on a more regular and consistent basis. I am now a firm believer in the idea of “if it is meant to be it is meant to be” in all matters professionally and personally. There is great comfort in embracing this thought process and it has yielded a better use of my energy.
As I continue to work with Máire we have begun working on visualisation. My confidence in utilising this tool is growing and it has been interesting to look at the items/feelings/emotions it throws up which need to be worked on to help along this visualisation road.