You can do it!

The challenge

Sanja, at 42 years of age, was struggling to get a new business venture off the ground. She had the qualifications along with a personality that would enhance her business. However, she was feeling overwhelmed about what to do and had concerns around her skills with regards to running the actual business, especially IT skills. She lacked confidence generally and was worrying about a small course she had agreed to run, mainly due to marketing and IT concerns.

The effect

Sanja was starting to doubt if she was cut out for her dream job, feeling that she wasn't good enough to get a successful business launched. This feeling had also started to seep into her private life and she was losing confidence in other areas and feeling quite low at times and starting to develop some anxieties around her future - around which path she 'should' be on. A happy and vibrant individual by nature, which was evident within the few sessions we had, it was apparant that she needed some help to maintain focus and increase her confidence.

Solution

Sanja had 3 sessions and during this time, her confidence grew as she realised she actually had all the answers inside her and was very capable and resourceful with lots of transferable skills. She needed someone at her side … me ... cheering her on, asking the most powerful questions that would guide her to find solutions to tackle issues that were holding her back. By applying coaching models and powerful questions, we were able to bring out of Sanja the knowledge and answers she didn’t know were within her.

As she heard herself sounding resourceful as the questions generated solutions from within her, her energy increased, and she became more positive. Some NLP application further increased her confidence. We explored her current self-beliefs, which were undermining her, using an NLP technique. She found the technique to be enriching and it took about 30 minutes to complete. It left her feeling empowered and excited and increased her motivation. Furthermore, it gave Sanja a technique to keep for life, something that would support her to reach her goals and dreams and could be adapted as needed and applied to a variety of future situations.

Result

Results: Sanja found solutions for her IT and marketing concerns, was able to fill her course and feel confident about delivering it. She feels so much more confident about her business in its entirety and is no longer questioning her ability to deliver and keep on this career pathway.

Furthermore, the sessions have impacted on her home life, as her feelings of anxiety have resolved and have been replaced with excitement about her current and future life.

Client feedback: "Sarah was recommended to me by a colleague who I was talking to in my struggles of setting up and building my business. Sarah was really helpful from the start, responded very quickly to my request and was very helpful working around my busy hours. Throughout the sessions I felt Sarah was in tune with my needs, took time to understand them and really gave me a structured plan and outcomes to follow. In breaking it down in this way it helped me to realise my weaknesses and do something about them. I would highly recommend working with Sarah, she is grounded, supportive, knowledgeable and insightful, and provided me with breakthrough I needed to take my next steps. Thank you Sarah!"