Caroline
Thompson
Associates
Case Study 1: "Chris"
Established Senior Leader
Chris was well established in his career, heading up his own department as director for the first time. Whilst he was very experienced, his role and responsibilities felt very new to him:
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felt stressed as he worried that he was not performing to the maximum of his abilities and that he was not meeting expectations…his confidence was easily undermined in meetings
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found balancing his priorities and managing his ‘to do list’ difficult
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never seemed to have time for the strategic plans he wanted to make, or to get home in time!
​​​Although Chris felt he had some great new business development ideas, he worried whether the senior leadership team would support them, and how to pitch the ideas confidently in a motivating way. To some extent, ‘Imposter Syndrome’ was hijacking Chris’s self-belief and making him hold back.
Workshop 1: Challenges and priorities.
Mapping successful
outcomes.
Workshop 2: Identifying Strengths
& Super Strengths
. Addressing the Inner Critic
through projective
techniques
Shifting Perspectives.
Workshop 3: Taking ownership of
the leadership role
Workshop 4: Managing time &
Working effectively
Workshop 5: Business development
Different scenarios
Feeling more confident
Workshop 6: Consolidation of personal
learning, beliefs, and
supporting tools
Outcome: Through shifting Chris’s perspective on his own behaviour and enabling him to take control of both his inner critic and his priorities, Chris became more at ease with his own performance, had more time for the things that mattered to him, and started to enjoy his new leadership role, achieving the outcomes he was looking for.