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What do you value?
Having worked in coaching for a number of years, it still never fails to surprise me when the goal that people come in with in a coaching session isn’t the goal that they leave with!
Why does this happen? Surely people know their own minds, particularly when they are about to spend time and money on a coaching session?
The role of a coach is to question and provoke and get to the bottom of what a person really wants. The core of that want comes from the values and beliefs that an individual holds. We are often not really aware of our values, but they are ever present in our activities and behaviour.
In a recent coaching session I was working with an individual who was looking for her next career move. She was a wife and mother, as well as a successful lawyer, but she felt that her peers were moving ahead of her and it was time to start chasing after them. In coaching we explore the impact of changes before we make a plan for the way forward and during that discussion it become obvious that, at this time, career advancement was in conflict with my clients core values around family and work life balance.
The relief from the client’s perspective was visible as we then focused on how to get the best from the life she already had. What a joy to discover that for now you are where you want to be, that external pressures and “shoulds” are no match for internal values and beliefs.
So what do you value, what makes you who and what you are? If you haven’t thought about it lately perhaps its time that you did!
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