When I first got into coaching, a lot of companies asked my firm if we could change people and work on their weaknesses to improve their work quality and experience.
So we jumped aboard with this thinking and started examining people’s shortcomings and struggles. We held the mirror up to our clients and told them they had to change, and if they didn’t, they wouldn’t move forward in their careers.
For the most part, this didn’t really work. People don’t want to work on weaknesses because those are the parts they already don’t like about themselves. It makes them lose confidence, become paralyzed, give up and go back to unproductive behavior. Don’t get me wrong-some of the mitigation worked in powerful ways. And yet there was something extremely important missing: the understanding that as humans we are all inherently flawed and that that’s OK.
The essence of our journey is not about correcting all of our flaws but about constantly evolving so we continually turn into a better version of ourselves. With this crucial insight, we have shifted our coaching methods to focus less on shortcomings and more on the most important keystone to evolving: getting in the right mindset.
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