When leaders come into a coaching session with me, I always ask them what their goal for the session is.
Most often, it will fall into one of two categories:
👆 You want to increase your skilfulness in an area that you know will benefit yourself, your team or your business. This could be communication, presentations, networking, resolving conflicts, time management, prioritisation, strategic planning, developing your team... as leaders, there are so many skills worthy of investing in continuous improvement!
✌ You want to handle a particular issue that is complex or tricky. To make sense of it, look at it from a different perspective. This could be to do with your role, interpersonal dynamics with another leader peer or team member, a life transition that is impacting your focus, how your values are aligning with a current career direction, or how you are managing work-life balance.
In either case, my role is to help you explore the topic in a way that is meaningful and to achieve the results that make a difference for you.
And my personal goal is to produce some lightbulb moments. I LOVE lightbulb moments because they signify a shift in thinking where a problem that was difficult becomes easy. Where a skilfulness that felt out of reach, becomes your new natural.
So I actively pursue these lightbulb moments in my coaching sessions.
💡 Is there something you aren't yet seeing that would make a difference here? Let's light it up.
💡 Is there a model or framework that could shed light on the topic? Let's shed some light on it.
💡 Is there an intuition, emotion or instinct you could be paying attention to, that would give you a clue about your true direction? Let's bring it to light.
And so it goes. The coaching process demystified.
It's not typically something you can do for yourself because it requires another person to listen, reflect, and engage. And the person needs to have enough care and interest to really understand where you are at, and enough audacity to offer a gentle push beyond your comfort zones and blind spots, so you can break through to where the real insights, realisations and solutions are.
I love coaching leaders because no two sessions are the same, and happens to be a sweet spot for me: You get to keep me on my toes. I get to help you reduce your stress, increase your flow, and surpass your goals.
If you are serious about being the best leader you can be and ready for this kind of personalised touch, I suggest you book a discovery call with me.
I currently have 2 spots open and they won't last. Link in the comments.
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