About us
Kefilwe Manyaka
has more than twenty years services in the corporate environment within the IT and organisational change roles. As an Operations Director, she provides strategic direction in matters relating to digitalisation which keeps the company abreast with digital transformation thereby ensuring to a seamless customer experience in the company. Kefilwe manages the Personality Assessments to customers and provides feedback in the organisation within the coaching division. This service helps individuals to identify their core personality traits and sets a blueprint on how to achieve their self-awareness. She also wears a hat of a Finance Director and is responsible for the financial health of the company and the sustainability of collaborating as well partnering initiatives.
Peter Manyaka
started mentoring students and aspirant functional managers from 1998 focusing on performance management and career planning. This then grew into life coaching focusing on relationship and personal development offered in informal sessions. After attending various leadership courses, receiving both business and personal coaching including completing an MBA as well as an Executive Coaching certificate, the coaching services progressed to a formal role and tiered towards business clients. Working in a corporate environment and the vast financial experience enhanced the leadership skills, which augmented the service offered to leaders of various entities which eventually led to the decision of starting a coaching business in 2012. Peter is currently the Managing Director of the company.
Coaching
Leadership Coaching
We offer our management, executive or general leadership clients, current and future the opportunity to have valuable conversations that promises to lead them to a path of self-awareness and fulfilment. Our conversations are based on our values of ethics and confidentiality with a strong emphasis on sustainable growth trajectory.
Our conversations are based on our values of ethics and confidentiality with a strong emphasis on sustainable growth trajectory. We are an authorised practitioner of an internationally renowned assessment tool, the ENNEAGRAM program which is an archetypal framework that offers an in-depth insight to individuals, groups and collectives to help them craft their life journey.
We believe this tool will be able to unlock some of the untapped potential that lies within our clients' abilities which could lead to successful journeys of self-discovery.
Career, Individual and Group Coaching
Our Goal-oriented coaching method is geared towards assisting individuals and teams to achieve set goals. It is about helping people, including team leaders to regulate and direct their interpersonal and personal resources to better attain their goals.
We understand that career choices are one of the key indicators that determines a person's attainment of their purpose, and it is for this reason that we include career coaching as part of our offering.
The primary method is to help people to form well-crafted goals and develop an effective action plan. The use of the assessment tools particularly the Enneagram, affords us and the individuals an opportunity to create clear and precise development path.
Business Coaching
We provide strategic conversations to help empower our customers to achieve the most efficient way of running their businesses, or any other types of entities.
We understand that businesses are a conglomerate of humanness that come together to achieve common goals for the purposes of creating customer value.
It is for this need that sometimes routes to the strategy can be blurred which may lead to the impact on the value chain. We believe with the experience and capability we have, allows for an opportunity to have conversations to align teams to towards achieving common goals.
Assessment Tools
We provide personality assessments to assist our clients identify their core personality traits and styles that define how they see and interact with their environment. Our in-house assessment tool is the Enneagram program which is an archetypal framework that offers an in-depth insight to individuals, groups and collectives to help them craft the life journey.
We believe that the assessment tools will be able to unlock some of the untapped potential that lies within our clients’ abilities which could lead to successful journeys of self-discovery.
Business Advisory
Working with teams within organisations, enabling and supporting them to achieve their objectives in a way that encourages involvement from all members.
This creates a sense of inclusion during all contributions and builds ownership of the process which releases the potential of the group and its members.
Clearly defining specific goals, making decisions from among options for getting there, and fully scoping out the potential results of selecting a particular option.
We assist entities to create relevant and value-based processes. We also assist in reviewing existing processes for a possible improvement and realignment to achieve desired organisational goals.
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