Turning Career Disruption Into Your Competitive Edge | Bill Bryant

Yeah.

I think if you're natural at it, then that's great because, you know, you don't have to really work too hard at it.

But there's a lot of people who, especially first-time managers, when you become a first-time manager, there's a lot of, it's not the same as being like just the subject matter expert, like you're going from working, doing the work to now overseeing the work and managing the people doing the work.

And so it's a whole different skill set.

And David, I think that, you

know, you're touching on such an important

point because what I'm seeing and where I'm sort of gradually moving towards and seeing as the clear area where I'd like to operate is exactly in those emerging leader groups because coaching traditionally is seen as an executive suite type leadership development tool.

And in fact, some organizations have formally said that below the executive suite You're not getting human coaching.

You'll get AI coaching or general training.

And that's fine.

I mean, each organization runs it their way.

And traditionally, certainly coaching has had a real fit at that executive level.

But the thing I see is that people emerging are the ones that are in fact struggling the most.

and for whom the methodology of coaching probably, in fact, has even more value than at the executive level, because they are at that stage where they don't know what they don't know, but they can see things that this doesn't make any sense to me.

And then they try to find a way to translate that.

So coaching, and perhaps with a dose of mentoring here and there becomes so valuable.

I mean, I've seen it, my two most recent clients fit squarely in that category.

And You could see sometimes how they would just be thinking, how do you know this? Well, I had 40 years of this, so I have actually seen this from both sides.

And I said, yeah, because

we've always wondered.

We couldn't figure out why.

We couldn't think what was driving that.

What was the meaning of that? And so you're 100 percent right.

And I think that's I see that a lot in the coaching space, that the people that really are articulating the need is that.

And that speaks to the point you were just making very well.