Millenials – Enhance Your Strengths at Work with Life-Coaching

by Suzie Doscher

With life-coaching for personal development my clients and I initially explore where exactly the sense of ‘something is not quite right’ comes from or what specifically is draining the energy, motivation and focus.
 
Can you relate to any of these?  

• Communication. Is it open, clear enough, or even available?
• Support. You would be happy to ask for support but the environment does not allow for it. Your manager is unapproachable.
• Constructive Feedback. Not getting constructive feedback? Feedback yes, but not constructive! Millennials are ‘hyper-connected’, used to rating/reviewing everything and want as well as value feedback.
• Multi-Cultural Teams. In Switzerland, where I live, teams are often so multi-cultural, not even a single member is a local. A team of ten can quite easily be made up of six different cultures. Such teams often work for a company with an entirely different culture – in many cases, American business culture. This in itself can present issues where knowing how to accept and respect other cultures is most valuable.
• Inspiration. Lack of inspiration from within the company. This will undoubtedly kill anyone’s motivation.
• Strengths / Weaknesses. Not sure what exactly your strengths and weaknesses are, let alone how to manage them.
• Management Style. Struggling with the outmoded ‘top-down’ management styles.

 
 
“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn, rather than teaching them. Or as applied to the business world, coaching is not about telling people what to do, but helping them to achieve all they are capable of doing and being. The best managers are the ones who understand this important distinction.”[1]
 
If you are not as lucky to be in the hands of such a manager or any of the above issues resonate with you, know you are not alone.
 
There is an abundance of trainings, seminars and information available online, yet it takes time to convert the learning and knowledge into action and behaviour. Rarely is there free time at work to adapt the intellectual knowledge gained in a training session. Support with, and time to convert this intellectual knowledge into action and behavioural changes is where I see the life coaching comes in. 
 
Ask for some life coaching for personal development from your company, seek it on your own, or feel free to get in touch and ask me how I can support you.
 
Keep in mind you are going to be the next leaders and could be running the show.

[1] Tim Gallwey, author of books about the Inner Game
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