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How a sceptic learned the true value of coaching.

How coaching gave me back my self-esteem, my self-confidence and my self-belief, and helped me discover new goals and ambitions.

 

Toni Panebianco

Operations Manager, Barclays Bank

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Outplacement
 

“Probably like many before I was sceptical of coaching in job role such as mine. I was
doing fine, been there years had A or B yearly ratings
for years, happy.

 

“I had also lost a great deal of self-confidence through the latter part of my previous employment, finding myself at odds with changes in the role and management. No longer was I a relatively big fish in a small pond, I have become a minnow in a huge lake and I was not comfortable with it.”

So life was good? Not exactly. What’s missing from
the section above are words like, complacent,
comfortable and coasting. Sure I had a well-paid job, I
was in the top ten percentile for salary and benefits in
the UK, a good house, cars etc etc. but did I wake up
wanting to be a star, push myself to achieve more, no.
What that did that result in?


A poor rating during a year of change in my section
and role followed by redundancy. After a restructure
resulting in fewer jobs, my rating and performance was seen as lower than that of my peers who had only been there for a short time resulting in my redundancy.
Demoralising? How would you feel? There were a
number of reasons for my relatively poor performance
but the main factor was not embracing change and
thinking I was okay. I had also lost a great deal of
self-confidence through the latter part of my previous employment, finding myself at
odds with changes in the role and management. No longer was I a relatively big fish in a
small pond, I have become a minnow in a huge lake and I was not comfortable with it.


In today’s professional world “okay” is not okay, “same as before” is not good. We all
need to “up our game” all the time. Whether that’s through applying newly learned skills,
working harder and smarter or changing direction. Above all else for me it was being
honest about what I wanted and focussing on delivering that, embracing the opportunity
of being made redundant to choose my own direction.

 

So to coaching. I am sure many of us have been at a stage in our lives were we let life roll
over us, not having a strong sense of wanting to achieve because we are doing okay
thank you. Shameful really and we could all probably do better if we someone had
pointed this out us before and even better with

“Coaching gave me back my selfesteem, my self-confidence and self-belief and helped me discover new goals and ambitions.”

some help. Coaching by Alan Denton and The
Results Centre to me was like turning the clock
back to a time when I was hungry to achieve, to
move forward, embrace change, learn and make
choices. Having the joy at seeing no boundaries
to what I am capable of doing but with a wealth of
life experience to avoid the nasty bits. It gave me
back my self-esteem, my self-confidence and
self-belief. Important to me is the self part of those things. Coaching brought me to a
point of self-realisation that I was really kidding myself about how well I was doing in all
aspects of my life and that I could do better and be happier. Coaching gave me the
confidence and belief back and helped me discover new goals and ambitions. Coaching
is not an easy or quick win option, you have to be open and honest with yourself and you
have to want to change or you gain little or nothing out of it.


If I were to go through all the changes or benefits to me as an individual or my company I
would ramble on here for ages. Believe me when I say that with Alan’s help I potentially
would not now be able to support 3 of my children, at the same time, through University
nor become a bit of a star in my new job. I am actively seeking out and driving change
and smile at the thought of challenges and risk. Actually I smile a lot more now.


Who wins as a result of coaching? Those of you that weigh emotion higher would see a
happier, fulfilled individual as the winner who makes his own choices. Those of you that
are more worldly focussed will see my wife in her BMW convertible as opposed to her old
Renault Megane, my two BMW motorbikes alongside another in the garage, owning
outright my house, no debt….. What about the companies that actually pay for this? For
you, I say, higher achieving individuals, exceeding KPIs, increasing gross margins and
happier, retained clients.”

 

"Toni Panebianco"