There is no greater challenge to overcome than the one we set for ourselves.. It’s not the context (lack of time, the type of boss, or even lack of resources) that holds us back when initiating a change or undertaking innovation; it’s our own ideas that sabotage our own dreams.
Much of our limitations lie within ourselves. If we believe that by delegating we lose power and that this harms us, we will not delegate using the many delegation techniques we know. We are capable of memorizing recipes on how to lead or how to communicate, only to never put them into practice.
What is happening in these cases?
It could be that the environment makes its implementation difficult, but the main limitation lies within the actors themselves. The idea that delegating takes away our power is only in our minds, even though it is something we are living as if it were an immutable fact. A person achieves a significant improvement in their results when they change their actions and behaviors. These changes will also be sustainable when the person also changes the way they interpret themselves, their role, their company, and others.
It’s not about what happens to us and why it happens to us, but about how we experience it and what we do with it. Coaching helps people see themselves from a distance to effectively identify whether the limit is within or outside of us, whether it’s really an external or internal barrier.
From there, coaching, as we are increasingly learning, does not propose solutions; instead, by showing the different alternatives and possibilities of action, it provides us with the magical option of choosing. Which would you say is your limit? Is it an external barrier or is it an internal belief?
