A favorite coaching client recently convinced her partner to work with me on career coaching.
When he got home after meeting with me, he told her: “You’re not allowed to say ‘I told you so.’”
I think about that off-hand comment a lot. I can hear such love and humor and care for each other in it.
And it was a needed affirmation for me, one year into this journey of self employment. It was an affirmation that, yes, I am on the right track; that, yes, my coaching is relevant and useful.
I’ll take that off-hand comment over a performance review any day.
Maximize Your Career in Your Current Organization
From a University of Washington Professional and Continuing Education webinar: Prospective clients sometimes ask me how I have the credibility to coach senior executives in industries I know nothing about. Challenging question, right? So I have a choice here: I can answer in a way that risks sounding defensive, talking about my experience and my degrees. I like to do something really unexpected instead.
I like to talk about knots.
