My Challenge

I started out on my coaching journey with Richard to establish whether a recent career change, resulting in a significant drop in confidence, was the right move. I had numerous questions … was I in the right role? Was the environment in which I was working the issue? Why could I build and maintain enduring relationships with some senior executives and not others?

How we worked together

Through discussion and exploration, Rich helped me to merge all my questions into a single mission statement – this morphed over following sessions as we explored my core values, my passions and my personal beliefs. Rich has shared tools, techniques and his own experiences with me to help me identify and manage situations more effectively. Rich ensures that each session is a step forward, a celebration of small successes, but also a reminder that there is work to be done. This keeps me engaged in the process and motivates me to continue the journey.

Coaching is a partnership where the goals, ideas, problems, solutions and ultimately the action comes from me. However, Rich has been fantastic at helping me plan and navigate my journey. He is a great listener and can pick up on important points and repeat them back to me without me realising I have said them.

What I've learnt

Through the coaching I’ve learnt that the questions I was asking were not really about my job, or my environment or relationships, but more about the physical and emotional reactions I had to conflict situations and environments that were contrary to my core values and beliefs.

The outcome from my coaching

To get to this point was an emotional journey and one certainly worth traveling – a significant breakthrough, an enormous weight lifted, the beginning of version 2.0. Rich has helped me to find the questions and the answers that have been in there all along, but I was just too afraid to acknowledge or address. This has helped to start building my confidence again, it will make me a better me which can only be good for my life, my human relationships and therefore my career as well.