A New Professional Self-Coaching Resource — For Turning Finished Work Into a Working Relationship
Today, a new resource in Professional Self-Coaching — Introducing Get the Thinking Across.
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 Thinking Across — Professional Self-Coaching for Work That Earns Trust and Referrals
You do good work. Your clients are satisfied, your projects land well, your results hold up. People approve what you propose, and they thank you for it. And still, something is missing: the relationship stays at the surface. They value what you delivered, and they don’t quite know how you think — so when they have a problem they can’t yet see the shape of, it isn’t you they turn to.
A client who is satisfied has seen your work. A client who has seen how you think will bring you the harder things. The difference is what you let them see. A finished result shows a client what you made; it can’t show them how you made it — the thinking, the wrong turns, the moment a constraint became the answer.
Get the Thinking Across takes you, step by step, from your experience to three prepared professional stories — your success, passion and failure stories — that get the thinking behind your work across to the people who need to see it. First by recognising them inside your own experience. Then by learning to work from them — opening your thinking on purpose, and thinking a problem through with a client rather than only delivering to them. And finally, by turning the same questions outward, drawing out other people’s thinking — which is how you deepen a client relationship, and develop the people around you.
And you finish with more than the stories themselves. You finish with your three stories connected into one picture of how you think, what drives you, and what you’ve learnt. The move of thinking in front of a client, when they come back for your mind rather than your finished work. The three questions that draw out how a client thinks, and how the people around you think. And your Thinking Page — a single page to carry into the conversations where your work needs to earn trust, not just approval.
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 the quality of your work was never the problem. When a client can see the thinking behind it, they stop receiving your work and start thinking the problem through with you.
Get the Thinking Across — Professional Self-Coaching for Work That Earns Trust and Referrals. Tell the Three Stories That Show Clients How You Think, Not Only What You Deliver. Share the Thinking Behind Your Work — So Clients Trust You With What Comes Next.
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