Coaching

Paths Forward is the Coaching service offered by SoftAssist for organizations, leadership, management and individual staff members. One of our core offerings is to assist in the creation of teams or to help existing teams become more engaging and productive.

Sometimes, nagging thoughts second guess your decisions and you wonder “am I taking the right actions?

Coaching helps you to gain clarity in your thinking. Leaders have the tendency to question their decisions or to doubt the actions already taken. A Coach does not provide you solutions but rather offers you the ability to see additional thoughts, reach potentially different decisions or to help you have greater peace of mind in the decisions that you have previously made.

Decisions
VUCA
Internal Change
Conflicting Options
Doubts
Career Change
Product or Service Changes
Personal Fulfillment

You are the leader and you know how to make tough decisions but suppose that you had a trusted advisor sitting in that empty chair right next to you – in person or virtually. Being calm and peaceful about what you decide with a deep sense of clarity about your decisions is where coaching from Paths Forward is engaged.

Coaching and Performance Metrics

Leaders want to know about measurements and ROI for Coaching.

Sales staff who have been coached show a quota improvement rate of 60%
Retention improvement rate of 11%
39% improvement in burnout rate
40% improvement rate in the motivation ability
80%+ improvement rate in satisfaction of mood

Paths Forward

We don’t give you solutions or answers, you have those inside of you. What we do provide is another you that will challenge your thoughts and ideas and help you to reach your own optimal and vetted solutions. Sometimes, you just need to know that you are on the right path.

Senior, tested and experienced coaches

When you decide that you want another view on your decision making, or you wish to talk through other options that you are considering, Paths Forward will support you during your coaching journey. Select each of the below images to learn about some of your coach choices.

With clear thoughts and confident judgements you’ll be better equipped to steer around obstacles and roadblocks while tracking towards success.

The Coaching sessions are normally conducted in 30-45 minute blocks of time, once every 3 weeks for about 5 sessions. Coaching continues as needed until you are comfortable with the progress. You control the session conversation and provide the topics to be coached. Team Coaching has a more structured approach based upon the growth of the team required and the present level of team cohesion e.g., a solid and active team needing to grow vs a team that is in distress and is non-performing.

Rick Rarick

Rick Rarick is a leadership coach and the founder of Insights & Awareness LLC. He is a former Human Resources and Management Development executive with Levi Strauss, the Coca-Cola Company, Fiserv, and Invesco.

Katherine Virdi

Accredited Executive Leadership Coach (ICF, SPHR and SHRM_SCP) and C-suite executive with 25 years experience (active TS clearance for federal contracts). Her skills are focused within leadership and performance coaching, leadership development, human resources operations, operations management and corporate management.

Abirambika Ravivarman

As a life, leadership and team coach, Abi holds the ICF PCC credential and has extensive experience in facilitating transformational programs. As a practicing Buddhist, Abi combines the value of deepening a client’s perspective on life and personal growth with that of a truly engaging coaching experience. As CEO of Green Minds (India and Canada), her clients include: YesBank, Citi Bank, Daimler, Apollo Hospitals, Mando and Saint Gobain among many more.

Dave Goodman

Dave’s approach and multiple coaching certifications comes from 6 years in finance, 5 years in Management & HR Consulting (Towers Perrin) and 30 years organizational development and learning across 350 national and global client engagements within Fortune 1000, national associations and government agencies.
Dave has a certification in DiSC assessment, and ICF certifications in Systemic Team Coaching, Transformational Coaching and in Advanced Team Coaching (June, 2023)