Leave a corporate job versus taking over the family business.
This is the case study on a client who is a 35-year-old male, married and was facing a dilemma of leaving his corporate job where he held a high position and was earning a large sum of money. He hailed from a family that had a thriving business for over 2 generations but the business was dwindling down and he lacked any encouragement from his family to take over the business.
None the less he had this desire to take it over and to revamp the business as he felt he has garnered a lot of experience from his working life in the corporate world. And by implementing those learnings into the company he was very sure that he would be able to turn the business around.
The lack of encouragement from the family had now seeded fear into him that if the business was not going to be able to be resuscitated then will he have the option to go back to the corporate world at the position that he left at. And these fears were now hampering his productivity in the corporate world and also preventing him from making the decisions.
(To leave a corporate job versus taking over the family business.)
To be able to confidently make the decision to take over the family business.
As a coach, I brought to my awareness that I faced a similar situation in my experience in life, and I was aware of the disempowering emotions that came with it. I was clear to define that my agenda would not be implied during the client’s exploration process.
During the sessions, the fear was addressed and worked on, and the cascading effect which resulted in lack of confidence was also worked on and these were done using the following approaches.
Outputs
The first approach to address the lack of confidence was done through powerful questioning where the client was asked to recall past confident situations where he had complete control in decision making.
The client was easily able to bring about many past situations where he had exhibited immense confidence and those situations were completely looked at and revisited. Finer details in each situation such as what was the environment like when he was revisiting a confident situation. And what were the thoughts and feelings like when he was in a confident situation?
This approached worked well as the client was able to reiterate to himself how he felt being confident and he was assured that he had handled confident situations in the past, and it had come to him quite easy to make decisions.
Over the next few sessions, we were able to run through some techniques such as the TFAR model which gave him a lot of new awareness and most importantly which he was able to identify the measurements of success that would enable him to know when he was progressing towards his goal.
This awareness brought about major shifts in body language, energy levels etc. and clearly, there was a better and a firmer tone of voice.
The new awareness helped him to balance his state of mind and most importantly to constantly bring to awareness the triggers that would dissuade him when he was being discouraged.
The client also then was able to make strong affirmations that would enable him to motivate himself if he had a slip back in his decision making.
Post the 4th session, he resigned from his company and formally moved into the family business and was extremely excited motivated and happy.
I was able to identify my ability to handle transferences.
