The Third Professional Self-Coaching Resource — For Strategic Influence
Today, the third resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Seat at the Table.
Self-coaching is the ability to guide yourself through every part of your WorkLife journey — through stable times and times of change and uncertainty. It is asking yourself the questions that bring clarity, finding your own answers, and acting on what you learn.
Each Professional Self-Coaching resource is created for one important professional moment. One purpose. One challenge. One outcome. Distilled from more than twenty years of professional coaching, writing and practice.
Get the Seat at the Table — Professional Self-Coaching for Strategic Influence.
Your work is good. Better than good — it prevents mistakes, it finds what others miss, and people rely on it. And yet, when the strategic conversation happens, you are the person who provides the input rather than the person who shapes the decision.
Nothing about your expertise needs fixing. What is missing is that nobody can see how you think — and thinking, unlike output, is what a room asks for when it needs a decision.
Get the Seat at the Table takes you, step by step, from your experience to three prepared professional stories — your failure, success and passion stories — built to translate your expertise into something a room can act on, and connected into one complete picture of how you think, what you’ve learnt and what drives your work.
And you finish with more than the stories themselves. You finish with your connecting lines — the piece that turns three stories into a view of your professional judgement. The insight line for each — the human sentence a non-specialist can repeat in a room you’re not in. A map of the moments when your story belongs, and how to enter without waiting to be invited. The reflect-back — how to make other people’s thinking visible, which is what influence actually is. And your Influence Page — a single page to review before any meeting where something important is being decided.
It captures the thinking, the sequence, the questions and the frameworks a coach would bring to hours of one-to-one work — and places them in your hands, to work through in your own space and time.
Because when people can see how you think, your expertise stops being something they use, and becomes something they consult.
GET THE SEAT AT THE TABLE: Professional Self-Coaching for Strategic Influence — Tell the Three Stories That Turn Your Expertise Into a Voice People Listen To — Make Your Thinking Visible, So It Shapes the Decisions That Matter
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