We often think about resilience as the ability to bounce back from tough situations and challenges. More broadly and accurately, resilience IS the ability to bounce back and recover faster because we can stay fully charged internally longer, so we handle stress and challenges more easily.
As a coach, the most important thing I desire for my clients is that they walk away better than how they showed up. I want them to have more clarity, focus, and a plan to achieve whatever they were up to.
Sometimes we don’t realize what “the work” of a situation or task is. We often like to see the results and want it without doing “THE WORK”. We like to see what feels easy, the green grass, without seeing the pain point or challenge (ie water, seeding, weeding, etc.) to get the green grass. As humans we can feel entitled at times, as if we have already done our time, paid the price, done the work for a result we feel we deserve.
Seth Godin is an inspiring truth teller. In 2016 he posted this blog outlining agreements and mindsets for how a team operates when doing important work.
The list is all strongly insightful and wise rules to live by. My personal favorites are:
I get that to-do lists are not as natural and exciting for some as they are for others. However, to-do lists are essential for productivity.
I feel very blessed and honored to coach my clients! It is a gift to hold space for their learning, self-reflections and self-challenging.
Often leaders know coaching is a great tool to support their growth and development. In the middle of the leadership grind, the urgent tasks and press of business, leaders struggle to know WHAT to coach on that will really be supportive. Here are a few questions that help to assess your goals in a coaching engagement as well as help to get a focus for a coaching call.
I developed a model to help capture the numerous components happening and available in my coaching process. This is what I call the Synergy Strategies Coaching Model. It does not mean these happen in each coaching call, rather these are all on the table to be accessed and part of a coaching relationship.
Being a mom herself, she got the vision and the impact of Grooowco. I would not have been where I am without her. She has incredible tips like books or people and is always able to guide me forward in the topics we work on.
For coaching to have its powerful transformation, leaders must make an intentional effort to apply the general learning to themselves specifically. They must bring to the table their thoughts, learning, and suggestions to create a custom and unique approach and solution that supports their vision for life and work.
