A shared direction, even in difficult situations

Workplace coaching

Workplace coaching starts from the goals and wishes for change expressed by team members themselves. We listen to what they want to strengthen, what strains cooperation and what they would like everyday work to be like. We build a shared goal from these wishes and work towards it with the team.

Petra and Bäsmä always facilitate workplace coaching together as a two-person team. We guide discussions and shared activities using a solution-focused approach. We help teams identify strengths, untangle cooperation problems and agree practical changes. Members take part in both developing and implementing solutions, aiming for effective cooperation, clear responsibilities and agreed practices.

• Working through tensions and long-standing cooperation problems
• Strengthening trust and dialogue
• Clarifying roles, responsibilities and shared ground rules
• Exploring workload, change and how smoothly work flows

Leadership coaching

Leadership coaching develops skills around an agreed theme. Petra and Bäsmä always facilitate together. We practise, for example, difficult conversations, giving feedback, setting clear expectations and supporting a team through change.

We strengthen leadership that combines listening, consistency and purposeful action. Petra brings parish leadership experience, while Bäsmä contributes management and multidisciplinary team leadership perspectives from outside the church. Content is tailored to participants. Choose team leadership consultancy for one-to-one support with your own leadership approach or a particular team situation.

• Giving feedback and raising difficult issues
• Handling conflict and clarifying responsibilities
• Leading change and building a shared goal
• Strengthening a safe and responsible discussion culture

Team leadership consultancy

Team leadership consultancy is one-to-one coaching with a team leader. It starts from the development needs you identify: the kind of leader you want to be, what you want to change in your approach or a situation where you need support.

You can come to consultancy when the team you lead is in a very difficult situation. We bring our own leadership experience within and outside parishes and an understanding of entrepreneurial responsibility and practical work organisation. We help you structure the situation, explore options and develop practical ways to move towards a solution. There is space to examine your leadership approach and plan difficult conversations and next steps.

Meetings are confidential and one-to-one. We start with at least three hours; standalone consultations also have a minimum three-hour charge. Follow-ups in a series may be 90 minutes. Agreed travel expenses are added. We can address one question or arrange longer-term support, returning to how your changes work in practice. You set the goal, and we help find ways to achieve it.

When can consultancy help?

• You want to develop your leadership approach or build confidence as a manager.
• You need a sounding board for a difficult conversation, giving feedback or setting boundaries.
• Team conflicts or weakened trust have become very challenging.
• You want ways to clarify responsibilities, the division of work or shared expectations.
• You need support with leading change or understanding your team's situation.

We build a practical action plan: what you want to change in your own approach, what you will try with your team and how we will review progress together.