The CEO That Saved Both His Career And Marriage

When Fred* reached out to Business Breakthrough Therapy, he was facing several huge obstacles within his company. The company was poised for necessary growth, however getting buy-in for the changes was not only slow, but the push-back was causing lowered performance. Numbers were down everywhere, from the sales department upward. It appeared that he was on the wrong track.

To make matters worse, it seemed there might be one of several key players stirring up fear and contention within the ranks.

He felt he had an exceptional plan, wanted to stay the course tackling every challenge, but the stress was killing him. He was losing sleep, had started gaining weight, and at home his wife seemed to be avoiding him. He needed to see his blind spots!

During his first session his coach-therapist listened as he poured out all the facts and figures. He rounded it out with teeth clenched in grim determination, “At this point everything seems equally as likely to end in disaster if I don’t take action immediately.”

His coach-therapist led him through a brief exercise to calm his mind and then another to help him notice blind spots that he might not be seeing.

During the following session, they began prioritizing obstacles in a way that took into account his internal attachments. Together, deciding which parts of his existing plan adequately informed those situations, they reassessed next steps. As the session ended, he breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The following week, he doubled his coach-therapy to two sessions per week for the next few months. Tuesdays and Thursdays worked best for various reasons.

Over the next few weeks, they were able to identify the key player who had been stirring up fear. With coaching, Frank empathetically addressed their concerns which had a positive ripple effect throughout the company. Afterward, Frank and his coach-therapist tuned up processes for disseminating key information throughout the company to avoid future misunderstandings, because when employees don’t have enough information, their thoughts usually tend to move toward worse-case scenarios.

Following the well-known business adage that ‘planning is essential, but parts become useless’, Fred’s coach-therapist helped him stay clear and focused while brainstorming through plan changes and roadblocks.

With Fred’s steady leadership, his business did experience company-wide growth. And as an unexpected side-effect of his coach-therapy sessions, he not only lost a little weight, but his relationship with his wife dramatically improved. Since he was able to vent his frustrations during his coach-therapy sessions, he arrived home each evening in a much more calm, and receptive state.

Once his growth initiative was largely complete and running with only the usual bumps in the road, Fred and his coach-therapist decided to cut his sessions back. However, he chose to move forward at 3 sessions per month, because in his words, “It’s so much better when I have an outlet outside of home and office to help me look at things from a different perspective, even if sometimes I just need to vent.”