Marlet Tromp

BASocSc (RAU), MASocSc (RAU), DlittetPhil (UJ)

Dr. Marlet Tromp is an experienced and professionally trained life and business coach who facilitates a coaching process for her clients to get to know themselves, make future directed decisions and take the required actions that will constitute significant and powerful change in their lives and businesses.

Marlet’s coaching is practical and action based. She works towards solutions that can be measured and that produce lasting results. Her success rate with clients is exceptionally high, owing to the good foundations her coaching practice is built on.

Life Coaching

• What is life coaching?

A life coach helps you confront and understand conditions in your personal life that obstruct your growth towards your full potential, and gives you tools to change the negatives into positives.

Life coaching differs from psychological therapy in that it is future orientated. It does not probe into your past to try to explain your feelings and beliefs, but is geared towards identifying actions that will take you where you want to be.

• Who needs coaching?

Quite frankly, everybody can benefit from coaching since it provides a safe, non-threatening opportunity to access within yourself the resources and solutions that you need to create a successful future. Clients may vary from ordinary people to the very affluent and top executives who all desire a better quality life but do not have the insight and objectivity to arrive at the solutions.

A life coach typically deals with issues such as life and career planning, motivation, self-esteem, relationships, productivity, delegation, conflict handling, leadership skills, time management, communication skills, assertiveness, problem solving, procrastination, lack of fulfilment, fears, and many others.

• The coaching process

Coaching sessions are private one on one meetings. Professional integrity and complete confidentiality is maintained throughout.

A first, introductory interview takes place, followed by ten to twelve sessions of 60-120 minutes each. During the initial sessions the coach asks questions that help you gain insight into your values, beliefs and life and career goals. She listens with empathy and does not judge what you say or don’t say. She leads you to formulate compelling and inspiring goals and guides you towards defining strategies and actions for accomplishing your goals.

In subsequent sessions your coach will expect you to be an active partner in the process. You will have to do work in between sessions and give feedback to the coach. Most of the growth and results actually happen between sessions. Your coach regularly evaluates the progress that is being made.

After completion of the coaching process, maintenance meetings once a month are optional.

A good system shortens the road to the goal – Orison Swett Marden

Business Coaching

• What is business coaching?

The first goal of business coaching is to enable you to analyse your present situation and determine your future directions. It is a powerful process that unlocks the full potential of your business, develops your business performance and enhances your skills in the workplace.

Marlet focuses in her coaching practice on small and medium businesses. You don’t surrender your responsibility and role in your business to the coach, but are guided through a proven process to determine what steps and actions are indispensable to take your business to the next level.

• The business coaching process

During the first contact with the client or the client’s organisation, the coach establishes the organisational needs.

This is followed by sessions that encompass the following:

• A general assessment in conjunction with the client
• 360-degree assessment interview
• Feedback on 360-degree
• Analysis of all gathered information to compile a coaching plan. This might include DIFSWOT (Difficult, Interesting, Frequent, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)
• Suggested strategy via Coaching Plan
• Strategy and action management
• Outcomes measurement
  
  

• Expected outcomes

Coaching is all about results. You can expect to be able to set and achieve realistic yet inspiring goals, improve motivation levels, manage time effectively, reduce stress, become more focused and self-sufficient, develop leadership skills, cultivate high performance behaviour, build an efficient and motivated team, increase productivity, manage change, prepare for advancement, achieve a good work-life balance.

Personal Profile

Marlet’s academic training, professional therapeutic and coaching experience and proven business success underpin her credibility and efficiency as a coach.

• Academic training & vocational experience

Marlet holds a D Litt et Phil degree from the University of Johannesburg with a doctoral thesis on Employee Empowerment in an Organisation. This is backed by a Master’s degree (cum laude) and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences, both from Rand Afrikaans University. She has also done a Security Vetting Course through SA Military Intelligence College in Pretoria and completed her coach training through Success Factory, Johannesburg.

She is affiliated to the following professional associations: SA Council of Social Work (SACSSP), South African Association of Social Workers in Private Practice (SAASWIPP), and Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (Comensa).

As a former social worker she has extensive experience in therapy sessions with people in extreme life situations.

Man’s mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

She has also done in-depth research and interviews for the Gauteng Department of Social Development on the topic of Youth in Conflict with the Law, as well as comprehensive security clearance interviews for Armscor from 1996 to 1998. Her research and experience, coupled with training programs she presented in her field, have equipped her for her structured and insightful work as a coach.

Marlet is the owner of a successful small business of twenty four years. She has competently managed the business through tough economic periods and knows what is required to grow a healthy, productive business.

• Articles, papers and other achievements

Several articles by Marlet on employee empowerment have been published in academic journals, while Destiny Magazine has requested her input on articles connected to small business management. She also took part in a live discussion on the SABC3 program 3Talk with Noeleen around the theme Are we still living in a man’s world?

Marlet has presented various papers at conferences, among which Indicators of Female Empowerment at an international conference in Amsterdam in 2007. She has refereed three articles for The International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations and has adjudicated five research projects for the Department of Social Development.

Marlet doesn’t make empty promises to her clients. She is a realistic but empathic coach who helps you set achievable goals and gives you tools to use for many years to come. The criterion for her personal success is your growth and the progressive changes in your life or business.

Can you afford not to be coached?

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