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Article from LCResource Newsletter - February 2008
Celebrating your
continued development.
Title: Merging With a Plan
by: Michael J. Boyle, C.L.C.
I’m a
very new certified life coach whose very new practice of coaching business
people is challenging me to find the avenues with which to make myself known to
clients. I am not new to some coaching with business people. I was a Human
Resource executive for two successive Fortune 100 corporations for most of my
career and I’m merging that experience and my coach training to bring that about
as a business.
The
challenge of merging is something we all encounter many times throughout our
lives. It has variable aspects to it. It can seem relatively easy or
challenging or near to impossible to do in any given situation. Think about the
instances, when driving your car, where you find yourself at an intersection
faced with a decision to go or not to go. Some folks zip off hardly even
stopping to look while others carefully pause and look to see if it’s safe
before proceeding and still others linger at the light full of indecision and
even trepidation. There are different ways to merge.
We live
our daily lives and face our decision in these same ways. If we are careless and
in a hurry about the way we approach most decisions, the eventual outcome may
well be in doubt even as we do it. When you think about it this is a corollary
to the impetuous driver who speeds off without more than a glance and has a
similar potentially perilous ending. On the other end of the spectrum the
person who ponders endlessly about what to do may find that they are hopelessly
lost standing in the way of their progress as well as that of others. There is a
sensible way to merge.
Planning
and patience are two keys to merging into our challenges with some reasonable
chance of success. We are impatient by nature, and inflamed by the social
urgency that we find in today’s hurry up and rush mentality. Most of us know and
would quickly admit to the foolhardy ways in which we try to shortcut our
efforts at accomplishment. Yet we seem driven to do as much as we can, as fast
as we can and the result is often much less than we or those counting on us
would have wanted it to be. Think about this a moment and you can see where
impatience plays hand in hand with the inability to plan properly. As a result
we do more colliding with each other than we do merging.
Some, of the things that
executives sometimes do in attempting to cope with important merging issues is
to procrastinate or minimize or ignore the consequence of the potential outcome.
You might think that dynamic executives would take the bit in their teeth and
run the problem down but that is mostly in the movies and executives are human
too. In all walks of life coaches are finding more and more ways to help people
take time to think their way out of the intersections of life and find ways to
merge into goals and objectives that give them meaning and fulfillment. Nowhere
is this more important than to the executive who is wise enough to recognize
that he/she needs to have a coach to help them identify the most effective paths
to negotiate as the mergers of decision come at them head on.
END.
About the Author: Michael J. Boyle holds
his certification as a Certified LIFE Coach. Michael is found of
Executive Coach Now, a business executive coaching firm. If you wish to
learn more about Michael's work, please visit his website at:
www.executive-coach-now.org.
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