Breakthrough
She walked into our fifth session like a jiu jitsu athlete who’d just figured out a submission nobody sees coming. Upbeat. Lively. “What are we doing next, Marc!?”
After breakdown
Weeks before, she’d been on the mats with her business. She was stalled, not seeing progress. The main sticking point was an employee who wasn’t fully engaged.
The question we asked was how to get them to engage, and it was the wrong question. That’s a linear question.
Then, somewhere around week five, things clicked for her.
In her leadership role she had to ask, where does this person want to grow and does it fit with the vision of the business?
When she had that conversation, the options broke out of a linear mold. The mental load of “what do I do about…” lifted. The employee felt supported in finding a perfect fit role, and the client launched two more organizations and began fundraising with renewed vigor.
Why did it take 5 weeks to come to a simple solution?
In The Good Place, Ted Danson’s character describes time as non-linear and it looks like a “Jeremy Bearimy.”
Growth works the same way.
It moves at its own pace, in its own direction. Sometimes you want to make a change and the “aha” moment is right there, sometimes it shows up five weeks later.
You can’t rush it.
And giving it time is what makes it show up faster.