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, there were several key players that seemed to be stirring up fear and contention within the ranks.
He felt he had an exceptional plan, wanted to stay the course, prioritizing obstacles, 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.
His first session was mostly his coach-therapist listening as he poured out all the facts and figures; rounding it out with teeth clenched in grim determination.
When he stopped, his coach-therapist responded, “Sounds like you’ve started with a good overall plan. Let’s get you focused. Which obstacle needs the most immediate attention?”
He responded that at this point everything seemed equally as likely to end in disaster if he didn’t take action immediately.
His coach-therapist then led him through a brief exercise to calm his mind and then another to help him get to his top three priorities. Together, deciding that his existing plan adequately informed those situations, they reassessed next steps. As the session ended, he breathed a 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.
Following the well-known business adage that ‘planning is essential, but plans are useless’, Fred’s coach-therapist helped him stay clear and focused while brainstorming through plan changes and roadblocks.
Following 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. As 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 decided to cut his sessions back to once per week. However, after three weeks, he added back the second weekly session, because in his words, “It’s so much better for everyone around me, when I have an outlet outside of home and office, even if sometimes I just need to vent.”