Client result: from powerlessness to taking back her power
- May 7
- 2 min read
When I first started working with this particular client, she was in a very difficult position because she didn’t have job security.
Naturally, with circumstances outside of her control, she was feeling very powerless in spite of having a great track record at her company.
She took every opportunity to receive coaching available to her, showing up weekly, focussed and dedicated to her development.
Nothing might have changed in her outer circumstances, but she is transforming into a leader on the inside.
From a very desperate “how to deal with this?”, her coaching questions to me are now “how can I become the person who avoids this problem in the first place?”, i.e., from powerlessness to taking back her power.
That mindset shift in her thinking today will determine:
how likely she is to be seen as a leader
her success as a leader because she is making better decisions from a place of power, rather than victimhood
her wellbeing and ability to balance work, her personal and family life when her energy and focus are directed the right way
This shift also determines her resilience in dealing with any challenges that her industry throws her way.
But this kind of transformation doesn’t happen overnight.
Most people want a quick hit during a single session of coaching, but fail to realise that the results they experience will be but a fragment of how much their life will change if they stay long enough to get the most out of it.
A “how to” from one coaching session will get you to a certain point, but if your issue is more complicated, the power remains in someone else’s hands.
“How can I be” from long-term support empowers you, and will open doors for you that you could never have possibly imagined.
If the choice was up to me, I know which direction I would choose to find a lasting solutions to my problems, because the longer I stay in the problem, the more it will deplete me and what power I do have in the status quo.
Because ultimately, developing yourself to think and act bigger is the only way to take back your power.
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