N.
The coaching topic: To be more able to trust my team and change my focus from routine to strategy to be a top manager de facto and regain my work-life balance.
It was important for N. because even though she was appointed as a high rank manager in an international corporation, she felt she was drowning in e-mails and operational matters, and she didn't trust her team was capable of sharing her load. Stepping out of the expert role, new way of relating to her job was a huge personal challenge. She had a feeling of being on a brink of burnout. Every day was like an avalanche tumbling down from the top of the mountain. There was no enjoyment from her work and it started to affect her relationship at home.
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J.
The coaching topic: Be more able to get in touch with and trust my inner voice in setting my business goals.
This topic was important for J., because he has realised that his goals are set by others. He was driven by the goals set by his competitors. He could not find a peace of mind if someone else had achieved more. On the one hand it was driving him and allowed to achieve quite some peaks. On the other hand it was a source of immense pressure and stress. He felt the goals are actually unattainable because they constantly move depending on what others are achieving. Chasing the moving targets has turned his life in to work, work, work. By trying to control everything he has achieved quite the opposite - it felt the work is controlling him. Wanting to be a role model for his employees, J. has became a hostage of his own business. He believed he always had to be the first to arrive and the last to leave. He also was attached to the belief that it is only him who could do the work best. He couldn’t trust his team and was constantly doubting his own decisions.
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K.
The coaching topic: To me more able to accept the life events as they are and respond to them with greater ease, love and compassion towards herself and others.
It was important for K. because she was constantly beating herself up internally. Her self-worth was dependent of how she thought others were evaluating her. Guided by this imaginary pressure from others she has been striving to create an ideal self and her shortcoming were driving her crazy. When, because of a tough punch in her personal life, she was forced to quit a successful career abroad and return back to Latvia, she felt she was drowning in the swamp and that she lacked any intellectual challenge and intensity. Not being able to control the life events and confrontation with a painful reality created enormous inner pressure. K. was work out and tired from that kind of life.
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S.
The coaching topic: To be more able to become aware of and respect my own needs so that my life becomes more juicy, vital, important, authentic and meaningful and I become interesting to myself and others.
It was important for S. because she experienced her life as gray and boring, without any source of joy. She felt her inner prison and allowed her parents, teachers, partner and others to make decisions for her. She could not get in touch with what she wants herself and could not ask others to respect her own decisions. She felt not understood and had no energy to live her own life.
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J.
The coaching topic: To be more able to make my next moves in career despite the risks and uncertainty that they could bring along.
It was important for J. because, although he has climbed quite high on the ladder in the organisation, he felt he was stuck and saw no future development in this position. He was struggling with his inner motivation since he had long achieved what was expected form him. He had turned a weak company into a flourishing enterprise. Now he could enjoy the fruit of his hard work but he was not quite up for it in his 38. He was good at taking risks in safe, predictable circumstances, but found it almost impossible to jump in the unknown.
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G.
The coaching topic: To be more able to stop and take a pause before my next move in my career to align it with what I deeply long for in my heart.
It was important for G. because he had always wanted to be “someone”, given the rough circumstances of his childhood. So far he had reached all the goals he had set for himself, however the fulfilment he was hoping for was not there. He had been offered yet another high step in his career but he wanted to make sure he was choosing the step and not vice versa. He was not sure if he really wanted this next step. Besides he was always beating himself up from inside thus engaging in endless war of perfectionism.
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