Case Studies
Case studies with a short profile and feedback from C-MAP trainees on how they feel and benefit from the attendance in the project training.
Ellie Moore, Weirdo Ellie Cosplay
This case study about how a young cosplayer is using C-MAPs to improve the way she presents her makeover and costume transformations in her Vlogcasts. One of the things Ellie is often asked to do is to train followers in how to paint their face as characters such as the Ginch and the Joker.
Marta Muñoz, Consultant and Trainer
Marta and her team regularly use coaching methodologies with Entrepreneurs and Managers and Human Research departments to improve their skills and competences, but CMAP was new to her.
Pavlos Panagiotou, Project Manager
Pavlos has worked for a private sector consulting and training business for just over two years. There are times as a project manager when he needs to provide support and coaching to other project team members. Having been coached in the past, Pavlos wanted to learn more about how to coach others. This case study is based on Pavlos’ experiences of using CMAPs.
Ludmila Dömeová, Senior Lecturer
Ludmila is employed as a senior lecturer at Czech University of Life Sciences. In this case study, Ludmila shares her experience of using coaching to help students to complete their PhD studies and to progress into full-time academic positions such as teaching and research.
Gabe van der Zwaag, Project Manager
This case study show cases how a Project Manager uses coaching as part of his job role. Gabe is one of three Project Managers in the company and is involved in creating and implementing European projects, such as Erasmus+ involving young people, enterprises, and schools.
Anne-Marie Daly, Performance Coach
This case study is about how a Performance Coach applies the structured approach of the C-Map model to help others work through situations facing them in the workplace and identify the way forward.
Angie Baily, Researcher, Educator & Co-Ordinator
Angie realised the need for new coaching methodologies to effectively improve communication with her peers who were all meeting virtually for study groups and discussion boards. She also found that teaching online resulted in lower student participation and confidence. CMAPs offered the ideal solution to improve communication and trust within the groups as well as strengthening an understanding of cultural and linguistic diversity.
Catherine Moylan, Educator & Co-Ordinator
Catherine uses the coaching methodologies to help her communicate strategic plans to team members. She has used CMAPs to help her reevaluate her approach and ensure that she can be effective in her role within the organisation.
David Buckley, Estates Manager
Throughout his career David has managed many multi-disciplinary teams in different countries.
One of the common themes for achieving a good working environment across all teams has been development of a good communication plan for within the team, for internal stakeholders and external stakeholders.
This introduces positive structures and processes and in turn allows the team to work effectively.
Michael Coughlan, Assistant Buildings & Estates Manager
Managing people can always be testing and achieving the best from your team while ensuring the corporate and departmental goals are achieved is the ongoing challenge for all involved. We are all different and people need to be managed and treated as individuals.
Hugo Bernardes, Managing Partner
This case study showcases how a Managing Partner uses coaching as part of his job role.
Isabel Nunes, Director
This case study is about how a Director applies the structured approach of the C-MAP methodology to develop a high-performance work team at Mindshift Talent Advisory.
Tânia Soares, Pedagogical Coordinator
This case study explains how Tânia is introducing what she learned with the C-MAP methodology in her daily professional routine.
Vasco Gaião, Trainer
This case study explains how Vasco has been using the knowledge and skills he acquired during the C-MAP learning activity in its professional life during the last months.
Erna van der Werff, Founder and Director
This case study explains how coaching can be an important part of culture change within organisations, especially when the changes need to be felt and understood across a large organisation. It also shows how a coherent coaching framework can help an external operator, invited into an organisation to support a process like internationalisation, build trust.
Frank Hiddink, Founder and Director
This case study explains how to use coaching techniques to work with interns and younger employees for whom personal and professional growth is just as important as their core work tasks. Particularly during a time when working from home has become the new normal to curb the spread of the Coronavirus.
Hester van der Werff, Civil Servant
This case study explains how you can use coaching methodologies to structure parts of your work which are not necessarily formal coaching moments, but where a coaching approach can deliver results.
Sjoerd Feitsma, Platform Director
This case study explains how coaching can help when setting up a new organisation, particularly a network organisation where external stakeholders play a structure role in the organisation’s work. A coaching approach can create a feeling of ownership, as well as an open structure where input and dialogue, essential to network organisations, are encouraged and lead to actions.
Christian Mihov, DJ X-TO
This case study is about how a young DJ is using C-MAPs to improve the way he chooses and presents the music according to the specific audience’s requirements at the entertainment places. Learning to design his own C-MAP plans is a way for him to be more organised and focused during the performance, considering the reaction and feedback by others. The C-MAP training course helped him to improve the show quality, meeting the audience tastes and wishes.
Todorka Dimitrova, Project Manager
Todorka work was aimed at supporting specific traditional sub-sectors within agriculture where the innovation and modernisation of processes and trade were difficult for introduction. Searching for the key barriers to innovation performance and ways to support the farmers and agri-producers require better listening and speaking skills.
Vladimir Vladimirov, Manager
This case study showcases how the manager uses coaching to provide leadership to company employees and the coaching benefits.
Ralica Zhekova, RAPIV Director
This case study explains how coaching can help when setting up a new project, where external stakeholders play an important role for solving a common community problem. A coaching approach can help to improving dialogue and people’s initiative, leading to joint actions and successful projects.
Arianna Tomasetig, Programme Manager
Arianna is relatively new to her position which requires her to engage with different kind of stakeholders and clients. They include sponsor organisations, academics and department staff, as well as, obviously, prospective and course participants.
Clara Commisso, Programme Manager and Social Media Manager
Clara’s position requires her to engage with different kind of stakeholders and clients. They include sponsor organisations, academics and department staff, as well as, obviously, prospective and current course participants.
Raffaele Sena, Business Owner
Raffaele’s position requires him to engage with clients, internal project managers and editors, as well as contracted legal translators.
Sara Ursella, Programme Manager
Sara’s position which requires to engage with different kind of stakeholders and clients. They include sponsor organisations, academics, and department staff, as well as, obviously, prospective and current course participants.