1:1 Confidential Coaching

We’ll start by examining your situation from all angles. That includes digging into the nitty gritty details of some specific recent incidents to get a handle on the characters and factors at play, as well as doing some reflection to identify what mental blocks you’re bringing to the situation. We’ll work on figuring out what makes you freeze up or question yourself in how you respond to conflict and confrontations, so that we can start to build a strategy that will work for you.

Once we have a better sense of what the root of the issue is, we can start building your custom strategy. That includes prioritizing which issues you need to deal with right away, and what can wait. There’s a ton of advice out there that works for other people in other contexts, but digging through it all and figuring out what will actually work for you can become overwhelming. We’ll work through that and build your strategy together, so that you can be confident that you’ve chosen the best approach for your individual context.

People aren’t always entirely predictable, so we’ll need stay flexible and make adjustments in the strategy in response to unexpected reactions. And that can bring up challenges and frustrations that you might not feel comfortable sharing with most people, which then leads to shame and self-doubt, which then derails your progress. This phase provides a confidential space where you can be fully honest about those feelings, so that you can stay on track and make the adjustments that will actually work for you, instead of for some idealized version of yourself.

We’ll make good progress together, but many of the challenges that library leaders need to manage through take longer than 6 months to fully detangle. So before we close out this partnership, we’ll build your plan to continue implementing, assessing, and revising your strategy on your own. By the end of this time together, you’ll be more prepared and feel more confident in your ability to build a healthier team dynamic at work.