Note № 1, on getting unstuck
You do not lack willpower. You lack a witness.
Most stuck people have already diagnosed themselves correctly. What is missing is not another insight, it is a scheduled hour where someone asks what you did with the last one. That is the work here.
fig. 1, the work, mid-sentence
Chapter I
The programs
Each one written out in full before you commit, length, number of sessions, price. Reading is free; so is the first conversation.
Career move
from €1,450Get the next role instead of waiting for it: positioning, a story that holds, applications that get answered and offers you can negotiate.
3 months·8 sessions of 60 min
Executive leadership
from €4,200A confidential room to prepare the decisions, the difficult conversations and the trade-offs you cannot rehearse with your own team.
6 months·12 sessions of 90 min
Career change
from €1,800Leave a career that no longer fits, with a tested destination and a transition plan, not a leap of faith.
4 months·10 sessions of 60 min
First 100 days
from €1,650You got the job. Now survive the takeover: read the politics, pick the first battles and build the team that delivers.
100 days·6 sessions of 75 min
Sustainable pace
from €950Keep the ambition, drop the 60-hour weeks: workload triage, boundaries said out loud, and a calendar that matches your actual priorities.
2 months·6 sessions of 60 min
Team coaching
from €5,900 per teamFor leadership teams that waste their Mondays: honest conversations, clear decision rules and meetings that end with owners.
1 quarter·4 half-day workshops
Chapter II
How the work actually goes
a
Naming the real question
The presenting problem is rarely the problem. The first session is spent finding the sentence that, once said out loud, makes you go quiet. That sentence is the program.
b
Working in writing
Between sessions you write, short, honest notes, not homework. Thinking on paper is slower than talking, which is exactly the point.
c
The witness hour
Each session opens the same way: what did you say you would do, and what happened? No judgement, but no forgetting either. That is what you are paying for.
d
Ending on time
A program that never ends is a subscription, not coaching. We finish when the question is answered, and the last session writes down how you will keep going alone.
Chapter III, margin notes from clients
Promoted to Head of Operations in 7 months
I came in wanting to “get better at visibility”, which meant nothing. Two sessions later I had a real goal, a number and a date. The plan felt almost boring, and it worked.
Retrained as a data analyst, hired three weeks after the program
The reality-testing saved me. My fantasy plan A died in week three (in an interview with someone who actually does the job) and plan B turned out to be the right one. I changed careers without burning my savings.
Signed the new role at a 22% higher package
I rehearsed the salary conversation four times before having it once. When it finally happened, nothing surprised me, I had already heard every objection, in session, from my coach playing a tougher version of my CEO.
Exec team attrition: three departures the year before, none since
The workshops were uncomfortable in the right way. The corridor conversations moved into the room, and our Monday meeting went from ninety minutes of status to forty minutes of decisions.
About the author
The person behind the notes
Fifteen years of coaching, a certification that can be checked, supervision every month, and a growing pile of notebooks. I work with people who think for a living and are tired of thinking in circles.
If you want cheerleading, I know excellent colleagues. If you want a rigorous witness with a pen, read on.
- ICF certified, hours of practice on request
- Supervised monthly, like any serious practitioner
- Keeps a written case log on every client relationship, reviewed in supervision
Postscript
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