Conventional Wisdom: Current Options
When we see someone talented who is struggling at work, we jump to traditional solutions.
- Take them out for coffee…and give them our best advice.
- Enroll them in a course, even if it is designed to remedy a weakness instead of tapping into a strength.
- We do whatever we can to fit that round peg into the square hole – set new goals, revamp expectations – keep shoving and shoving.
And, when you are struggling at work?
- Suffer in silence.
- Listen to guidance from friends and family.
- Tell yourself that ‘maybe it’s ok that there’s not a perfect fit”. And then lower your expectations of what it means to find satisfaction at work.
Some of these approaches can work, but likely only temporarily.
My Approach: Your New Choice
I believe that the answer is right in front of us all, actually inside of us, if we just make space to hear it. Pausing, really listening, and thinking creatively. Clearing that space opens up possibility and opportunity. Converting that to action and accountability is the deliverable.
Coaching is a partnership to move people and organizations from great to greater; client and coach work together. A great coach knows how to prompt discovery, challenge growth, and invite forward movement. A great client is ready and motivated to take action on whatever is standing in the way of their potential.
Coaching techniques help individuals tap into their own awesomeness, and then buy-in to action and accountability. When you have that forward movement, the rest follows: engagement, productivity, the flow of great work getting done in great ways.
