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Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors
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Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors

by Brian Underhill, Jonathan Passmore, Marshall Goldsmith
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
8h 36m
English
Wiley
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37 Managing Self-Doubt After a Promotion

Nihar Chhaya

Nihar Chhaya is an executive coach to the C-Suite and leaders at global companies, including American Airlines, Cigna, Coca-Cola, Draft Kings, 3M, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Technologies, and others. A former Fortune 200 corporate head of talent development and a senior advisor to boards and CEOs on succession planning, he works with leaders on mastering interpersonal communication for superior business and strategic results.

As soon as I arrived at his office, I could tell something was wrong. My coaching client barely looked up at me from his desk as I took my seat across from him. Just a few weeks ago, in our last session, he was overcome with joy and optimism. But today, he looked like a completely different person, betraying fear through his blank stare and hopelessness in his slumped frame.

My client was the President of a business unit at a Fortune 50 company, promoted from his VP role just last month. And he was experiencing something quite bewildering and novel to him as a successful leader, but not at all surprising to me as an executive coach to leaders transitioning to the C-Suite.

This executive was undergoing a painful bout of self-doubt, suddenly unsure of his capacity to perform at the level others expected, despite wanting this position for so long. At certain moments, he ruminated with worry about his new job, and at others, he longed for the “easier” days of his last role.

As his coach, I knew that for ...

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