{"content":[{"text":"Client Testimonial:","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.183167,"width":0.175599,"height":0.02086199999999999}},{"text":"My Coaching Story","bbox":{"left":0.413958,"top":0.218012,"width":0.177757,"height":0.02086199999999999}},{"text":"by Bryan, an executive at a small, high-pressure, start-up company","bbox":{"left":0.209461,"top":0.252782,"width":0.581035,"height":0.020816}},{"text":"I got my performance appraisal, and it wasn't a good one. I got the top rating for \n performance to goals, and the worst possible rating for \"interpersonal.\" I also got threatened. \n By my boss. For my job. Okay, now I knew things were real. I also knew that I didn't want to \n be the person that I was being portrayed as. At the same time, I didn't know how to make the \n change that was needed.","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.30505,"width":0.8095,"height":0.090507}},{"text":"Luckily for me, a friend read an article about \"coaches,\" knew I was in this dilemma, and \n passed it on to me. I did some research, e-mailed a request for proposal to several potential \n coaches, received several responses, and narrowed it down to three choices. I went through a \n coaching session with each of the three and found that I could easily make a decision.","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.409587,"width":0.8217810000000001,"height":0.07308400000000004}},{"text":"Karen was insightful from the first call. I quickly connected with her style of expressing \n things. She was able to put threads together to weave a line between things that previously \n seemed unconnected. Needless to say, my coaching got off to a good start. Some of my \n biggest hurdles became smaller and easier to focus on quickly and I began to make progress \n toward my goals.","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.496701,"width":0.808584,"height":0.09050699999999995}},{"text":"Of course, as most stories go, there comes a time when things got a little tougher. For \n me this meant that I exhausted the low hanging fruit within about a month and then didn't really \n know how to continue. Up to that time, I had clear examples to discuss from recent events \n plus a lot of past experiences to draw on and learn from. After that initial period, I found myself \n in the zone of knowing that I hadn't really changed yet, but at the same time, I was out of the \n immediate threat of losing my job.","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.601238,"width":0.8214640000000001,"height":0.10777800000000004}},{"text":"I struggled for a few coaching sessions with ineffective discussions. All of a sudden, \n nothing was gelling in the coaching sessions. After thinking this through, I decided to tell \n Karen that I was done with coaching and it just wasn't the right tool for me. When I picked up \n the phone to have my final session, she surprised me by starting the call with \"Maybe coaching \n isn't right for you, Bryan. You don't seem motivated, and it takes a motivated person to truly \n make change.\" Whoa, here I thought Karen would spend my time and money any way I \n wanted (I never give people enough credit). Not so. Instead of quitting that day, we talked \n over what coaching was and how it could be effective. She gave me several suggestions of \n ways to look at the problem--now we were coaching on coaching.","bbox":{"left":0.088294,"top":0.723046,"width":0.822192,"height":0.16019799999999995}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.088294,"top":0.068176,"width":0.843987,"height":0.09984}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.088294,"top":0.068176,"width":0.843987,"height":0.09984}]}