You're coaching a client hesitant to explore new career paths. How can you break through their resistance?

For a client rooted in fear, I would anchor them in moments in which they felt successful and bold and would help them define tools used in those moments, reminding them the same tools are in their toolkit right now. I would get curious around old stories or beliefs that no longer serve: What would it look like to release those beliefs? Set them on a shelf? Throw them out the window? Finally, I would ask questions that help define top values and explore new doors that might honor what they desire most in career and life. Articulating bold moments, examining tools, calling out old beliefs, and defining values might be a great catalyst for clarity and releasing fear. To a thriving future! ✨

To empower individuals: Help them reflect on their fears to understand what drives them. Break down challenges into smaller steps, making them feel more approachable. Remind them of their accomplishments to boost their self-belief and share inspiring stories to motivate them. Encourage them by providing reassurance and emphasizing the benefits of embracing new experiences. Foster their confidence through supportive conversations and practical guidance to guide their growth and success...

First coaching is not about breaking through anyone … so I would never consider the person’s resistance, unless stated by them as something I need to handle in any way. Coaching is about serving the person through their value system gaining awareness about what they want and what are they committed to that may be preventing them from reaching their desired state. There is always valuable information in resistance … something is gained from it and uncovering that is of value for the person being coached. Si listening with positive empathy and regard for the person … thats 100% where I would start and then let the presence with the person guide the road ahead … we ar editing the person anywhere! They are diving themselves

Validate their feelings while emphasizing the potential for growth and fulfillment in new opportunities. Encourage self reflection on strengths and values, and provide practical steps like self assessment tools and informational interviews to help them gain confidence. Address specific barriers sensitively and offer support throughout their exploration process, fostering a positive and empowering coaching experience.

Develop Trust: Create a safe space for open dialogue. Understanding: Ask open-ended questions and listen empathetically. Identify Fears: Pinpoint specific fears or beliefs holding them back. Share Success Stories: Provide examples of successful career changers. Boost Confidence: Highlight their strengths & past achievements. Set Small Goals: Break the process into manageable steps & celebrate progress. Offer Resources: Provide career counselling, workshops, & networking. Challenge Negative Beliefs: Reframe negative thoughts positively. Visualize Success: Encourage them to imagine their success. Create an Action Plan: Develop a clear, step-by-step plan. The above approach will help clients gain confidence and explore new career paths.

My personal experience and working with hundreds of clients in the past decades shows that simply setting goals (even using the most sophisticated ways) without knowing the ‘why’ behind those goals are merely in vain. I would have my client envision himself or herself by already achieving that goal and feel the result as clearly as possible.

In order to set goals, the crucial first step needs to take place. This all about creating their vision, enrolment into the life they want, how would that feel, and the positive impact it would have on them. The SMART goals can then be discussed and broken down easily manageable tasks/ actions.

Busca con tu cliente la meta. Por ejemplo lanzar su primer disco, buscar acciones que si o si tiene que tener, canciones y su música original, un productor, un videoclip etc u ponerle fechas cumplibles. Que se pueda medir. Trabajo en equipo.

Setting goals - whether long-term or short-term - is essential for maintaining a clear perspective and focused direction. Achieving goals often requires a series of steps and the development of specific skills. By acquiring these skills, you'll build the confidence to tackle goals of all levels, from easy to challenging, and experience the satisfaction of accomplishment. Goals empower us to strive for excellence, grow as individuals, and celebrate our successes along the way.

Goals are ideas within dreams. As such we move our scholars towards intentions, and realizing insights that have been quietly fueling their dreams. This inspires leapfrogs beyond goal-setting into future casting, with an Åwareness that the dream is already in progress, not simply waiting for the steps to be installed.

The magic of the co-created experience in coaching is to get under the hood of suppressed feelings, thoughts, and aspirations that may not have revealed in a career or previous job. Sometimes exploring what it could feel like to do something that lights you up can shift so much inside of you. So many people stay in positions, jobs, and companies that no longer serve their highest and best. Through reflective questions and coaching, you can uncover options. Industries, roles, or avenues that you may not have considered. Sometimes it can begin with just one step. Informational interviews, a course, dabbling your feet in something, or volunteering. So many of us can be conditioned to follow paths that weren't ours in the first place.

This is where the Ådventure truly begins, as a creatively aware scholar can see the next stages with an explorers mindset. Knowing that each next step is part of a macro learning opportunity - which they are more than prepared for - brightens the pathways with torchlights of potential. It’s all a matter of which class of Ådventure they’d like to explore.

Fear loves familiarity and safety, but change is where the adventure begins! In helping your client explore different options, you can help them focus on the excitement around unlocking new possibilities rather than on the fear that wants to keep them stuck in the known. Shake things up! Brainstorm a variety of career paths with your client. From traditional to unconventional, exploring options ignites curiosity and opens doors to new adventures. Help your client see change as a chance to grow and thrive. Highlight the excitement of new challenges and the potential for personal and professional development. By shifting focus from fear to excitement through exploring diverse career options, you can empower your client to embrace change.

As humans we all love our comfort, but with comfort comes stagnation and eventually boredom. Exploring various different options, including their is clear understanding between coach and coachee. ▪️Why they are exploring new options ▪️What this looks like ▪️When they will start ▪️What if (it works, doesn’t work)

Si no tiene tu cliente una pasión definida y no sabe que realizar puede buscar su Ikogai -que le apasiona ? -que es bueno haciendo ? -le pagarían por eso?

Regularly celebrate small wins! Do something that scares you Focus on your goal, nothing else Promote your strengths Review progress Stay in action

Begin by acknowledging their fears and concerns, creating a safe space for open dialogue. Highlight their strengths and past achievements, emphasizing how these can translate into new opportunities. Set small, manageable goals to help them experience early successes, gradually boosting their self-assurance. Encourage them to visualize positive outcomes and consider the potential benefits of change. By consistently reinforcing their capabilities and providing supportive guidance, you can help them overcome resistance and gain the confidence to explore new career paths.

I’m a big fan of strengths-based roles in organizations. When individuals are working from their strengths they are often working in their zone of genius in the best way for them to add value to their organization’s outcomes. Also coaching individuals on how their role aligns with the purpose of the organization and the ways in which their actions ultimately benefit customers gives meaning to the everyday grind and supports employee’s on-the- job satisfaction. I call these win-win-wins!

We can use mindfulness and meditation to help our clients to get out of the vicious circle. We have seen that practice like Hoponopono will help us to bring peace and happiness. But at the same time, we need to understand the crux of the problem.

Como mencionado anteriormente é muito necessários celebrar os sucessos e aprendizados ao longo do caminho. Reforços positivos podem aumentar a motivação e reduzir a resistência, desenvolvendo cada vez mais a confiança em saber fazer boas escolhas.

Firstly, I don't believe or agree that a coach's role is to "break through a client's resistance" to something. That implies the client's pathway is coach led versus client led. As a coach, our role is to listen, and to ask high quality questions to assist a client with uncovering what they really want to pursue, and then to help support and encourage in that pursuit, leveraging the coach's core methods and areas of expertise as relevant. Yes, if you have knowledge or insight that may be useful on potential career paths, then by all means share it (one of our key roles is also to help clients see that they have options and choices, as that creates sense of autonomy and freedom), but that choice of what to pursue is the clients.

Prepare um sistema para registrar o progresso e os pontos discutidos em cada check-in. Em cada check-in, revise as metas estabelecidas anteriormente e avalie o progresso em relação a elas. Utilize ferramentas e métricas específicas para medir o desempenho e identificar áreas de melhoria. É importante encorajar o cliente a refletir sobre o que está funcionando e o que não está, utilizando o feedback para pequenos ajustes do plano de ação ou metas. Reforce o compromisso do cliente com seus objetivos em cada check-in, disciplina e foco, lembrando-o do porquê esses objetivos são importantes.

If external accountability works for your client, this can be super helpful - from a "low touch" accountability when you spend a few minutes of the next session reviewing the goals from the last one, to a "high touch" productivity with daily check-ins. Often the initial external accountability is a great tool how to build a new habits (so external accountability is no longer needed)

In order to improve ourselves, we need to have an accountability partner. By doing this we can ensure proper learning. At times, our accountability partner will correct us.

Show them the benefits of a new career path. Let them start with tiny steps towards something new. When they accomplish something, celebrate it. Celebrate the smallest success to keep the person motivated.

If its a client, which means he/she comes for a need. So if his/her need is to lift their careers I'm sure as a coach, we can first give clarity & confidence what he/she gets through the coaching sessions. When setting clear framework client will be at peace to continue the coaching.

The biggest consideration is not to look at resistance as something to "breakthrough", not for the client and certainly not for you as a coach. This is so important. Resistance should be honoured and treated with respect. It is there for a reason, for protection. "Breaking through" it might give you a temporary progress, but never long term change. My approach is to help my clients become aware of the resistance, and then be curious about it: what is the resistance about? What purpose is it serving? When the client uncovers that, then they can make a choice. But never, ever try to "break through" it.

One of the things that I find most helpful when working with clients is to help them define their unique success ingredients; those innate talents and abilities that they most identify with. Recognizing their capabilities, disarms resistance and allows for examining areas that they may not have previously considered.

Help your client visualize their success in a new career path. Visualization can be a powerful tool to build motivation and reduce anxiety. Guide them through exercises where they imagine themselves thriving in their desired career, focusing on the details of their daily activities, achievements, and the positive emotions associated with their success. This can make the prospect of change feel more attainable and less intimidating.

One thing that I find very helpful with my clients is to help them begin with exploring themselves. When they know who they are at the authentic level which means understanding themselves at all levels of their being , it becomes easier for them to become aware and then the journey from there is easier to navigate.

Que el cliente se visualize ya con la meta conseguida para poder ayudarse con ello. Si nos vemos con lo que queremos en realidad es más fácil conseguirlo. Si lo crees, lo tienes pero recuerda que es creencia más acción.