Talk
Tell me what’s going on, then book your free twenty minutes.
Answer the five questions below, then pick your time. The questions take two minutes and the calendar is on the very next page, so you do both in one go.
It comes straight to me. Nobody else sees it. I’ll have read it before we speak, so we don’t spend the first ten catching up, and if I’m not the right person I’ll say so.
Still hovering?
I know what you’re thinking.
You’ve got this far, and now there’s a quiet voice talking you out of it. It says one of these. I’ve heard all of them, usually from people who booked anyway and were glad they did.
You can work this out on your own.
It isn’t that bad.
Not yet. After this quarter.
I don’t know what to write.
One line. That’s the whole requirement. You can say the rest out loud.
I don’t have time.
It’s twenty minutes. You’ve already spent more than that this week going round the same loop.
Is the free call just a sales pitch?
No. There is nothing to pitch in twenty minutes, and I don’t send a proposal unless you ask for one. If I’m not the right person I’ll say so on the call, and I usually know who is.
Could it get back to my board?
No. And if I work with your team, what they tell me stays with them too. You get what I’m finding, not who said it.
Should I hire a coach or a consultant instead?
Possibly. I have written the honest version of that, including the three things a firm does better than me. Coach, consultant or mentor.
Will it actually help?
I don’t know yet, and neither do you. What I do know is that staying where you are hurts.
What if I don’t know what the thing is?
Most people don’t when they sit down. That’s the part I’m good at.
Other people have it worse.
Probably. Or maybe you’re playing yours down. Either way you don’t deserve to be carrying this. Imagine tomorrow if you’d said it out loud and started moving.