Piotr hadn’t interviewed in nine years — he’d never needed to. Then came the restructure, and an interview three weeks away for a role he genuinely wanted. His instinct was the sensible one: get a coach. His oldest friend was one — booked months out. What she told him down the phone instead changed his three weeks: “I wouldn’t give you a single answer. The answers were always going to come from you.” So he asked the question this story exists to answer: could I do that for myself?
Category Archives: Professional Self-Coaching
Introducing Get the Strategic Influence
A new resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Strategic Influence. Your expertise is respected — and still, people value the technical service and treat it as operational, while the strategic insight you carry rarely reaches the table. The gap isn’t that you lack a voice; it’s that people don’t see the purpose behind how you see. Get the Strategic Influence takes you from your experience to three prepared professional stories that reveal the purpose behind your expertise — so people stop treating you as a technical service and start treating you as a strategic mind.
Introducing Get the Thinking Across
A new resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Thinking Across. You do good work, and your clients are satisfied — and still, the relationship stays at the surface, and when a harder problem arrives 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. A finished result shows what you made, not how you made it. Get the Thinking Across takes you from your experience to three prepared professional stories that get the thinking behind your work across — so clients stop receiving your work and start thinking the problem through with you.
Introducing Get the Trust
A new resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Trust. You lead well, and your team respects you — and still, when a problem arrives, they wait for you to solve it. A team that respects you will do what you ask; a team that trusts you will do more than you ask. Respect is earned through effectiveness, and effectiveness keeps people at a distance. Get the Trust takes you from your experience to three prepared professional stories that let people see the thinking behind how you lead — so they stop waiting to be directed and start navigating the work with you.
How Do I Prepare for an Interview in One Day?
The call came at four o’clock: hiring freeze Friday, can you do 4pm tomorrow? Sandra had planned a week of preparation; what she had was one evening. So she did what twenty-eight years of supply chain had taught her to do when a timeline collapses — decide what actually matters, and cut the rest on purpose. And she knew what actually mattered, because twenty-eight years includes a lot of hiring: three things, and she had one evening to find a story for each.
What Is Self-Directing?
Everyone assumed Orla would apply for the permanent role. Her managing director said it in passing: “You’ll apply, obviously.” It took her four days to notice that one word was doing all the work — and one evening at the kitchen table to start asking whose answer it really was. Her story is about self-directing: knowing your values, motivations and priorities, and choosing a path that’s genuinely yours — even when you have to write it yourself.
Introducing Get the Partnership
A new resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Partnership. You know your subject, and your expertise is taken — and still the work stays transactional. People accept what you tell them, but the real engagement never comes. When expertise fails to create partnership, the thinking itself is rarely the reason. It fails because the thinking arrives without the journey that produced it. Get the Partnership takes you from your expertise to three prepared professional stories that carry that journey — so people stop receiving your work and start building on it with you.
Introducing Get the Recognition
A new resource in Professional Self-Coaching: Get the Recognition. You are probably doing more than your job title describes — work that has quietly grown beyond the role it was written for, into something that has no name yet. And because it has no name, nobody sees it, including you. Get the Recognition takes you from your experience to three prepared professional stories that make your real value visible: first to yourself, then to the people around you, and finally in a way that lets you draw out the value in others.
How Do I Talk About Failure in a Job Interview?
Callum was twenty-seven and six years into his career — good enough that his campaigns were talked about throughout the company. So when the marketing manager role opened up, his director told him to apply. Callum said yes — and privately gave himself two reasons he might not get it. The first was the mistake everyone in the building remembered: a launch email to forty thousand customers, eighteen months ago, with his name on it. The other he never said aloud, to anyone. The panel had lived the first. The question wasn’t whether they’d ask. It was who he had become because of it.
What Is Self-Leadership?
Orla got the role. Then came the harder part: ninety days of carrying it — a restructure that was finally her call, afternoons that kept slipping into her old job, and one Monday morning that took ninety seconds and taught her team what safety is. Her story is about self-leadership: taking ownership of your WorkLife with intention, integrity and responsibility.