My brain (and probably my heart) has been working on overdrive, since I wrote my post about being a revolutionary, trying to figure out the next trail I want to blaze.
On the one hand, I felt like I had to move roles, if I was to make the impact I wanted to make. But then the penny suddenly dropped. After a series of conversations, some coaching and some individual reflection, I realised that I am uniquely positioned in my current role to do the things I love and to make a difference.
Coaching is my passion. That’s where I know I can make a huge difference in the world, enabling others to be their best and do their best for the world.
And my job is all about deeply understanding our people in our organization, their needs and desires, their highest aspirations. I then feed this knowledge into all of our HR projects to make sure they address these needs and desires so that our people can live their best career story.
There are other coaches around our organization too, all doing 1-1 coaching, but as far as I know, not feeding back any of the trends and themes that they are hearing that need to be addressed at an organizational level. So I got us all together this week to do exactly that.
And it was as I was preparing for that call that it clicked for me. Coaching and my job do not need to be mutually exclusive. I don’t need to do coaching on top of my day job, which is how I had been thinking about it before, since it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in my job description.
What IS mentioned in my job description is that I need to have a deep understanding of the needs and desires of our people. And coaching allows me to do that.
That’s not to say that I will break any confidentiality agreements we have in place, but I will continue to bring this group of coaches together to reflect on what we are hearing at a macro level, so that we can feed that back to HR to address systemically. That’s my passion and my job, and that’s how I can change the world…ensuring that our people can live their best career story, by addressing the obstacles in their way.
