Let’s talk about you. How are you being excluded, overlooked or under-valued?
Recently, clients have shared some of the ways that they’ve felt left out or overlooked. Relate to any?
Clients come to coaching to become better leaders. Most imagine our work together centering on models, assessments, and tactics. In the early days of our coaching relationship, they come to our meetings with some version of:
“Tell me what to do.”
How often do we move through our lives tending to one thing then the next without pausing to reflect on what it meant to us? It may not be until we share the moment with someone else and see their response to it that we realize that our life, in its seeming regularity, is actually worth paying attention to.
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* This is a special newsletter. It was co-written with one of my clients. A few weeks ago, I got off a Zoom with Matt (of course, not his real name), and wrote this piece as a follow-up to our conversation highlighting what I heard and what I didn’t say to him. Later that day, I handed it off to him asking for his input. Hmmm...just now seeing how meta this is – working with a thought partner to write about thought partnership. Anyways, here is our co-creation. (Thanks ‘Matt’ – you inspire me with your curiosity, awareness and commitment to becoming a better human being.)
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