Coaching Portfolio Task: Coaching Influences: Case study

Name: Suman Rudra Date: 28th Oct, 2012 Student ID: Suman R Email: suman.rudra@gmail.com

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The Career Journey @ Crossroads

This case is regarding a client of mine who was at his career crossroads and my coaching experience About the Client: Works as a HR Manager in a company and has been in position for 2 years. The client is passionate, competent and excels in his job. He also is presently enjoying his job, though he has a long term goal of opening a HR Consulting firm. He has suddenly been given another opportunity within his Organisation and he has had to make a choice. This requires him to relocate him in another country. He has a family and kids to support who presently stays with him. He is in a dilemma wants to know what he should be doing now as the opportunity is very good and shall provide him global exposure and shall be a value add but it creates concern around what is long term objectives are and how can he fulfil that. The process and the First Session: The coaching process was done in two sessions where the first session was exploring about whats was happening in client life at present. This was more of exploration and client was exploring the present. During the process the questions like What is happening in your life now?, What is bothering you? How are you feeling about it? The client stated his dilemma that he had this excellent opportunity to go abroad and for a global role but he was not sure how this shall help him in long term.

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The process of Visualization was used to help client experience his future now and collect the learnings. Out of the two options that he had, the client was asked to visualize to a time n future where he is reliving his option 1. The client was taken in a meditative state with few deep breaths and able to concentrate for visualization. The client was asked to see what was happening around him, what are people saying about him and what was he going through. He was then asked to collect his experience and park within him. The client was brought to present state. He was then asked to visualize the scenario-2 and gather the feedback and reaction and experience and hold it in him. The client was brought to the present state. The client was asked to share what his learning from the two scenario and what were people was saying. Who were these people? During this process client realised the need to bring in other key people and take their feedback in his decision as it was affecting them. The session ended with the client agreeing to talk to them and come with their feedback in the next session. Second Session: It started with the client sharing the discovery of their other stakeholders in his decision. The client stated that during this process he realised that how important was to involve them in his decision which he never realised before. This realisation also provided some challenge as he had multiple inputs now and was not clear on how to proceed ahead. Now having this realisation the discussion was focussed back to the client on what is valuable to him in his life. There were discovery happened around family, meaningful work, social contribution, shared values of working people and passion for work. The client also explicitly stated his long term goal to set something of his own. What was stopping him from reaching his goal elicited the answer of financial security? This was a key discovery and required him to build a financial security for him to realise his goal. To get his out of the present state of confusion a direction of what he actually would value was taken. This was explored by seeking what he values in his life. Some of his value discovery may help him in understanding why he does what he does? The aspects around family, doing meaningful work, social contribution and working with people with shared values were discovered. The next part was around realising his greatest gifts and strengths. What work that gave him maximum satisfaction and why did he do it? The learning from this realisation helped in more finely identifying what he should be doing

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The technique of Appreciative Inquiry was used to aid the client in the process. What is Of Value to me? What I want to do in long term? What are my greatest gifts? What do I do very good?

What should I be doing in future to align my strengths and my values?

Options

Exploring & choosing options: The client having realised his own value system and long term goals helped in setting the background or the foundation for his thinking ahead. Exploration of his greatest gifts and strengths helped him in exploring more about himself and creating a context around what he should do? The use of Appreciative Inquiry helped in client in making him aware of his strengths and creates a desired future for him. The option chosen such that the client long term needs are met (the financial security) and also the short term opportunity was not missed. The other aspects of family care and concern was also taken by suggesting an option to them which shall taken care of their safety and security need.

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End Result: The client came to conclusion which was in harmony with his values, beliefs and also had taken care of his short and long term requirements and addressed the concerns of others also. This experience made the client happy and motivated to go ahead with his choice.

Suman Rudra, www.coach2transform.blogspot.in