WHY SEEK COACHING
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Why Seek Coaching
Real stories of growth, transformation, and unlocking potential
Welcome to our "Why Seek Coaching?" page, where we explore the diverse reasons, individuals have turned to executive coaching to enrich their personal and professional lives. As you read through these real-life statements from clients, consider whether any resonate with your current journey. Each reflects a unique existential challenge or aspiration that led these individuals to seek guidance and transformation through coaching. By sharing these insights, we aim to illustrate the varied paths that bring people to coaching, from navigating career transitions and overcoming self-limiting beliefs to enhancing leadership skills and achieving work-life balance. Can you see yourself in some of these statements? If so, coaching may be the catalyst for the change you seek.
Coaching often starts with asking questions that begin a process of deep reflection. Many times, these are questions you may not be comfortable surfacing to peers or colleagues or loved ones, as these questions tug at the roots of how we see ourselves, how talented, or smart, or experienced or skilled we think we are.
It is rare that these questions have not been asked by many others in similar, or even unique circumstances, because we are human, and it is human to question ourselves and to seek to find strength to meet our uncertainties head on, once we have some insight and a plan for success.
Q: What brings you to Coaching?
A: I am beginning to realize that I don’t know what I don’t know, and I am running a company.
A: I have to learn how to work better with my board
A: I’ve always done a great job doing what I do. I am starting to realize that what got me here won’t get me to the next place.
A: I need my senior team to be stronger, ideate and execute better, become better at strategizing. I need to empower them and I know that a good part of that lies with me. (giving up some of those pieces)
A: At this level, I don’t get any straight feedback (and those are my blind spots), nor do I get mentorship or even sometimes recognition for the things I do extremely well. What replaces that?
A: My business is doing well. I don’t know how much longer that will continue to be the case. I think about whether I should explore a merger or acquisition or concentrate on scaling up and growing. (I don’t know what that looks like)(What questions should I be asking, what do I need to do two years before?)
A: I’ve moved quickly in my career. I am afraid of people finding out that I don’t know all they think I know.
A: I have always been a number two, never promoted to the number one spot. What are my blind spots? What am I not seeing?
A: I have always been a do-er. It’s hard to step back and transfer all of that agency to my lieutenant. I still need to know or have a deep level of understanding of my business operations, but I don’t want to micro-manage.
A: I know it’s probably time to think about succession planning, but I am having a hard time getting started.
A: I was employee number 7 – now we are a 250 person company. My role, and what I can and should be doing around here has changed. Am I focusing on the right things?
A: I feel like an imposter.
A: The success of this company and everyone who works here, is on me. I don’t want to screw that up.
A: Sometimes I feel like I am in the eye of a hurricane. I want to be better at setting priorities, establishing boundaries, and setting a path, establishing the vision.
A: I’m not sure how much longer I want to keep doing what I’m doing.