What Personality Assessments Tell You About Who You Are
Fact: When we first launched the ideamix coaching platform, we had hundreds of visitors swarming our site who thought we were offering a personality assessment. That’s because most people want to better understand themselves and personality tests are a tool by which to accomplish this. Note: We haven’t devised a new personality assessment. We’re a […]
How Personality Assessments Can Help You Develop Your Strengths
While BuzzFeed quizzes may come to mind when I say the phrase “personality assessment,” these assessments have much more value than just telling you which Disney princess you are. These assessments can help you to understand your personality and strengths, but you need to be able to understand the results in a granular way for […]
How to Overcome Burnout
Last year, when I was finishing my course of study, I experienced a lot of anxiety. I was worried about my grades, exams and what would be next after I finished. In the final couple of months, the stress got progressively worse. I slept less and less, drank more and more caffeine, experienced typical physical […]
What makes a great coaching relationship?
Coaching is personal, so compatibility is essential for unlocking a coachee’s success. A great match means a relationship built on trust, commitment and engagement from both a coach and coachee. Our process focuses on creating this best-fit relationship for the coach and coachee. The most important empirically proven factors that determine a great coach-coachee match […]
Why We Struggle with Change
To be able to achieve the things we really want in life, we have to do what we haven’t done yet. We have to do something different, change a parameter in our life. This is common sense. Everyone knows that if they want to achieve something different from what they currently have, they have to […]
What is our matching process?
Our research in addition to our experience finding suitable coaches for clients and ourselves informs our multi-layered matching process. Creating a roster of qualified coaches who are capable of building trusted relationships to shift mindsets is only the beginning of ensuring a great match. From there, ideamix seeks to get to know an individual, their […]
Why is coaching a worthwhile investment?
Coaching is an investment in your future. Its outcome is having a full life and wellness. The cost of working with a coach today pays these dividends over a lifetime. At ideamix, we believe that individual wellness is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being across eight dimensions, as defined by the World […]
How to Succeed by Embracing Change
Change is the only constant. We hear this all the time. We say it to our family members and friends when they’re struggling to accept change that might be inevitable or unexpectedly thrust on them. Or our family members are saying it to us when we’re resisting a personal change. We experience it at work […]
What are the different types of coaching?
What is coaching? Why should I do it? Think of coaching as an effective hybrid between counseling and therapy. Coaching is goal-oriented, and the goals defined up-front serve as the basis for everything that follows in coaching. Like therapy, coaching tends to delve into some of your past, but it is more forward looking and […]
Finding the Best Business Coach For You
Picture this: you have the desire to grow professionally. Someone suggests hiring a business coach and explains the benefits this unique relationship can have on one’s professional life like helping find the right career for you. After doing more research, you even learn how to make the most of coaching. Only one step remains – […]