"I want to be inspired again..."
.......said a passionate talented senior manager in her recent coaching session.
This manager is gifted and resourceful and when she brings it on, her "A" game rocks. She started our coaching session with this comment. She continued by saying, " I want to go where there is a real challenge, not this artificial profit and loss economic game. Where's it still fun to be creative and innovative, oh yeah, and to make a pile of money too!"
This is what coaching looks like.
It's incredibly difficult to find support for your development and growth both personally and professionally, and to keep moving forward through progressively more senior leadership roles. It is inappropriate to talk to your team about your challenges, your boss is often part of the problem, and family and friends have their own work challenges and lives. Where to go? Where are the people people?
That's what working with an Executive Coach can do for you. Every week I walk alongside each of my clients and provide guidance, insights, skill development, and caring.
Leadership models of the future will look completely different than they do today. As tensions build, and the old framework collapses, new models will evolve, with different characteristics and qualities.
Recent clients have begun their coaching engagements with these challenges in mind:
- survive massive layoffs
- understand choices and create new options for making a living
- develop new patterns of interaction with difficult co-workers
Often, though, they evolve to deeper opportunities to develop themselves, grow their understanding of their true gifts and talents, and accept the challenge of living an authentic life.
A Native American Medicine woman said, "too many dreamers are sleeping, and we're running out of time."
I hope you're ready!