Miracle of Coaching III: Atip’s Coaching Can Help the Underdog

From my previous article, I’ve shared with my article readers that I coached a leader who sought my urgent support on his career decision and advancement. His goal was to progress his career in a different career path and also in a different organization.

This was because the reward was so much bigger in terms of financial reward and also so much more influential in terms of sphere of influence than his current position, in current organization.

After three weeks passed by, we had the second coaching session to follow up on his action steps that he was committed to do prior to meeting up again in the second coaching session.

My client really was committed to his action steps by applying Sun Tzu, The-Art-of-War Strategies and also Coach Atip’s 7-View Model of Coaching.

Basically, what he did as his homework during the past 3 weeks was… “to study and influence” in each view of the Atip’s 7-View Model of Coaching.

He already did his best in terms of his homework and he was very much more confident than himself the version that we met in the first coaching session. I could tell that he was already transformed into the new and much more confident version of himself.

In the second coaching session, I helped him work on his Vision-Pitching Presentation. I proposed the “Role Play” work for this session to him, and he totally agreed on that. So, I played the role of one of the committee members (judges of the competition), and he played the role of himself as one of the presenting candidates.

I asked him to conduct his presentation for 15 minutes based on the actual presentation time allowed to each candidate to present in the actual competition round. Then, I bombarded him with many different challenging questions in the 30-minute Q&A round.

Then, I shared my reflections and feedback as I observed when we did the role play.

He took my shared feedback and was really committed to the action steps coming out of the exchanging reflections and feedback as his homework to study, practice and rehearse before his D-Day arrived!

Based on the news in the popular newspapers, my coaching client was considered, “The underdog” in this fierce competition. Because there was already someone in the candidates who had been working as an insider in that organization for so long and was well positioned to be promoted into that opening job. Whereas, my coaching client was an outsider of that organization. Being an outsider was one of his disadvantages to compete with the candidate who’s an insider of the organization.  

Never mind! I shared with my client that if he was really committed to his action steps coming out from our 2 coaching sessions, he need not fear the result of a hundred battles… just like Sun Tzu said.

A few days later, I heard the great news from my client that… He won the competition! He was selected to take this job role. Wow! “Who said, the underdog couldn’t win!”

Again, this is another miracle of coaching!!! It’s a miracle because…. it gives my client the quick winning result. There were only 2 sessions of coaching conducted and with only 3 weeks of preparation in between, coaching could help the underdog win the fierce competition very quickly and beautifully.

If you’re a leader and you wish to experience a miracle of coaching also, then let’s talk! (And you don’t need to be the underdog to experience a miracle.)