When you just have time for a Quickie…

The Need-it-Now Culture

Email. Text. Chat. Twitter. Skype.

Our person-to-person interactions are driven by instantaneous send and reply. Nobody waits. Patience is passé. Get it now…gotten…gone. Your world expects you to deliver immediately if you are to remain competitive. Stopping to pause, think and reflect are hardly encouraged. Nobody has the time.

Quick Coaching provides the space for your reflective conversation in the now. In a de-pressurized environment, with flexible time to think out loud in the presence of a masterful sounding board, Quick Coaching allows you to process thoughts, consider actions, and determine best decisions before getting back into the game.

Your Response-Ability is Your Responsibility

• Have you ever instantly hit the “send” button in your email program and then suddenly realized that you should have waited?
• Have you ever financially committed to an imposed deadline, only later to reconcile with yourself (and your bank account) that you had been foolishly reactive?
• Have you ever felt a teetering, unsettling gut instinct about something or someone, but time pressure and head space led you to make too quick of a decision that you later regretted?

I have coached hundreds of people who each expressed to me that they hadn’t trusted their initial gut feeling and wished they hadn’t been so quick on the draw. Clients tell me that they “had to respond,” yet they regret their reactive triggers. They didn’t have a coach on call.

Your ability to powerfully choose your response in the now, to the now, from who you are now, is a true treasure.

The Coach’s Responsibility

Quick Coaching gets you at your core, so that in a sixty-minute session we can:

• Craft and polish an important email
• Prepare you for an upcoming meeting
• Sounding board your thinking
• Resolve a conflict (inner and outer)
• Strategize your network navigation
• Solution-focus a problem
• Identify and assess next action steps

Bottom Line on Quick Coaching

Define, Design and Align your Response-Ability from Your Core.

David Matthew Prior