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It used to be<\/a> that my leadership coaching clients would start out with leadership topics, and then months down the line we\u2019d shift our focus to the rest of their life:<\/p>\n These days, we\u2019re moving there much quicker. Life issues are front and center, with the most common topics being feeling overwhelmed and having trouble focusing.<\/p>\n While people have been overwhelmed for years, I\u2019d say this trend has really spiked since Covid. And it\u2019s no wonder, when you consider the volatile and upsetting range of current events we\u2019re all dealing with these days.<\/p>\n Another trend that\u2019s contributing to these feelings is something called quiet promoting<\/em>. You may have heard of quiet quitting, where team members show up and put in their time, but without much enthusiasm, initiative, or willingness to take on any extra tasks.<\/p>\n Quiet promoting, on the other hand, is when employees are given more responsibility, but without more pay or the recognition of a new title.<\/p>\n This is a problem for both parties. Those making these difficult decisions feel like their hands are tied. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford the staff level we had before. We can\u2019t fill spots as quickly when someone leaves, but that work still needs to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s unfair to put that pressure on someone, yet that manager or leader has equal pressure to make sure the work is done. Everyone has more to do.<\/p>\n What I\u2019m hearing is loud and clear, not quiet at all. People are done with more work for the same pay, more responsibility with the same job title. They don\u2019t want to talk about how to tolerate it or get through it. They want to talk about what actions they\u2019ll take.<\/p>\n Not only that, but they also want to talk about how to not let these work pressures create turmoil in their family and personal life. And that\u2019s where coaching comes in.<\/p>\n One of the biggest benefits of coaching is that people get to process out loud what they\u2019ve been thinking about (often overthinking). In many cases, simply getting it out of their head is a positive step forward. They get a slightly different perspective as they hear themselves say what they\u2019ve been thinking. Add to that the value of a coach who is following up with questions and observations\u2014not fixing<\/a>, but instead encouraging additional exploration and options.<\/p>\n In other instances, my clients will want to strengthen their life-work boundaries and develop new strategies to leave work at work. Or, they might do a practice run-through of a conversation they plan to have with their supervisor about quiet promoting.<\/p>\n What are you noticing about the balance between leadership coaching and life coaching? What do your clients need more right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These days, life issues are front and center in leadership coaching, with the most common topics being feeling overwhelmed and having trouble focusing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3060,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions\/3060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coaching4todaysleaders.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n