Coaching a director exhausted by stress and anxiety
A high achieving director in a global business, Thomas had reached director level quickly and at a young age. Often given additional responsibilities, sometimes transferred from other directors who weren’t coping well. He gave the impression that he was in control, able to take whatever was thrown at him and being up for a challenge. Speaking to others in the business, he was liked and seen as a bit of a ‘golden boy’. As part of a senior level coaching and training programme, Thomas was to take part in 6 coaching sessions.
Learning how to be resilient is so important. Whether at work or at home, we face all sorts of challenges that can get us down and make picking ourselves up again difficult. The more techniques we have, the better chance we stand of being able to strengthen ourselves and face the world again.
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Entrepreneur loses confidence as business is bought
Steve has enormous entrepreneurial talent and grew his first business quickly and successfully. His company was approached by a larger business who wanted to buy, and wanted him to stay on to run that part of the business. As an entrepreneur, this was a whole different ball game. Used to putting plans in action quickly, he found the structure of the larger firm stymied his creativity and he became frustrated. He believed that he would be sidelined and would lose control. He was aware that his way of communicating didn’t fit in with the new, larger organisation’s expectations. He contacted me and explained that he wanted to become regional managing director and not find his way out of a job, as he feared might happen.
When coaching and training, I so often see clients struggling to bring focus to what they’re doing and finding their workload stressful. Asking what the aim is of all the work and the mountain of tasks and meetings, makes a huge difference – see what you think.
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“Not that I can immediately think of” many people will respond. Yes, there are some that are afraid of spiders, birds, heights etc, but I’m thinking of a less obvious type of fear, that many of us suffer from and don’t realise it. Or if we realise it, we make sure we brush it swiftly under the carpet and get back to work.
Case study: stress and impostor syndrome
Coaching a director exhausted by stress and anxiety
A high achieving director in a global business, Thomas had reached director level quickly and at a young age. Often given additional responsibilities, sometimes transferred from other directors who weren’t coping well. He gave the impression that he was in control, able to take whatever was thrown at him and being up for a challenge. Speaking to others in the business, he was liked and seen as a bit of a ‘golden boy’. As part of a senior level coaching and training programme, Thomas was to take part in 6 coaching sessions.
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Training as a Resilience Practitioner
Resilience is something that can be learnt
Learning how to be resilient is so important. Whether at work or at home, we face all sorts of challenges that can get us down and make picking ourselves up again difficult. The more techniques we have, the better chance we stand of being able to strengthen ourselves and face the world again.
Read more
Coaching case studies: Entrepreneur loses confidence on buyout
Entrepreneur loses confidence as business is bought
Steve has enormous entrepreneurial talent and grew his first business quickly and successfully. His company was approached by a larger business who wanted to buy, and wanted him to stay on to run that part of the business. As an entrepreneur, this was a whole different ball game. Used to putting plans in action quickly, he found the structure of the larger firm stymied his creativity and he became frustrated. He believed that he would be sidelined and would lose control. He was aware that his way of communicating didn’t fit in with the new, larger organisation’s expectations. He contacted me and explained that he wanted to become regional managing director and not find his way out of a job, as he feared might happen.
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What’s the AIM of this?
Cull those tasks that don’t align
When coaching and training, I so often see clients struggling to bring focus to what they’re doing and finding their workload stressful. Asking what the aim is of all the work and the mountain of tasks and meetings, makes a huge difference – see what you think.
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Fear
Are you afraid of something?
“Not that I can immediately think of” many people will respond. Yes, there are some that are afraid of spiders, birds, heights etc, but I’m thinking of a less obvious type of fear, that many of us suffer from and don’t realise it. Or if we realise it, we make sure we brush it swiftly under the carpet and get back to work.
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