Overcome obstacles in decision-making with coaching

Professional coaching equips employees with awareness where they can weigh and discuss pros of cons of various options along with their subconscious doubts and fears. It allows professionals to achieve the targets while bringing their wholesome self to work.

Through rhythmic sessions, as a client discovers ways to move at a faster pace at work, he progresses at his workplace.

1) Expressing the unsaid feelings – Coaching conversations offer a space of non judgment where the client can express themselves.

A client of mine spent a major part of the session talking about the struggle with his boss and how he was not finding support from him. When he had finished lamenting, I asked him what he will do if he accepted the boss’s behavior.

In the next minutes, the client shared a plan to support himself for meeting his goal.

Only after expressing the repressed feelings, he was able to think clearly and get the work done.

2) Overcoming limiting beliefs – In a session, one of my clients quipped that the target is impossible to achieve in the current year. When I asked to elaborate on the impossibility, he changed the word to difficult instead of impossible. I then asked him what would make difficult to easy.

Coaching allowed him to question his beliefs, break the goal in achievable milestones and move forward.

3) Evaluating options – A manager brought to a session a struggle of having plenty of options to choose from for making a decision. My client voiced out his concern of being subject to the blame which will come to him if his chosen option fails. I asked him to explore further on the fear and the certainty of failure.

Knowing about his fear allowed him to overcome the delay in taking the decision by building a framework to measure the success and failure rate so that he can course correct to Plan B.

Professional coaching enhances the decision making ability of an individual both in terms of timing and quality, as individuals start taking conscious decision considering the impact on various stakeholders.