In my last blog post, I reflected on the passing year and encouraged you to do the same.
This month, I am looking forward and thinking about the year ahead, what I would like to achieve in it and what I need to do to make that happen.
I have also been looking at what my hot coaching topics will be for 2024 (a practice my social media guy got me into!). I have found doing this thinking up-front makes writing my blogs each month so much easier, as I am not scratching my head for a topic each month.
If we don’t spend time thinking through what we want to achieve and how we are going to do so we are probably leaving such opportunities to chance. “Failing to plan is planning to fail” as they say (which is a quote often attributed to Alan Lakein, a writer on time management in the 1970s).
It is probably no surprise that after a career in business planning and project management, I love a plan (perhaps a little too much).
Some of my hot coaching topics for 2024 are very much planning-based:
So much of planning is asking where are we now, where do we want to be and what is the gap that we need to cross between those two states?
In some situations, the gap may be about how we as individuals prepare and develop ourselves for making the transition between the “As Is” and “To Be” states and how we lead others to also make such a transition.
Some of my hot coaching topics for 2024 will explore these leadership development challenges:
I am also going to be exploring some hot coaching topics for 2024 that are less about planning and more generic:
These topics aren’t necessarily going to be in the order shown, so if there are some you don’t want to miss, sign up for my newsletter as each month I will tell you what the topic will be for the following month.
As always please get in touch if you have any questions as it would be great to hear from you.
From the author:
As coaching is not an advice-giving service, these blogs are not written with the intention of proposing solutions to common leadership challenges. Instead, they are thought pieces with the aim of prompting the reader to think more deeply about the topic and reflect on whether it warrants further exploration, with or without a coach.
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