Your Flow Zone Is...
The Coach 🌱
Your genius is coaching.
You bring out the best in others through deep listening, thoughtful guidance, and emotional insight. You have an instinct for people: how they think, how they feel, what’s holding them back, and what could help them move forward. Whether you’re working one-on-one, leading workshops, or facilitating group growth, you create space for meaningful transformation.
You build trust quickly. You know how to make people feel seen, understood, and supported. You ask the right questions. You reflect back what someone can’t yet articulate. You help others understand themselves more clearly and take empowered action from that place.
Your emotional intelligence and ability to guide people through growth and transformation is a powerful form of leadership. When you center around this strength, your work becomes a catalyst for others’ evolution. Ensure this strength is at the heart of your work and you will be on the path to fulfillment and success.
You bring out the best in others through deep listening, thoughtful guidance, and emotional insight. You have an instinct for people: how they think, how they feel, what’s holding them back, and what could help them move forward. Whether you’re working one-on-one, leading workshops, or facilitating group growth, you create space for meaningful transformation.
You build trust quickly. You know how to make people feel seen, understood, and supported. You ask the right questions. You reflect back what someone can’t yet articulate. You help others understand themselves more clearly and take empowered action from that place.
Your emotional intelligence and ability to guide people through growth and transformation is a powerful form of leadership. When you center around this strength, your work becomes a catalyst for others’ evolution. Ensure this strength is at the heart of your work and you will be on the path to fulfillment and success.
You're likely energized when:Â
You’re helping someone unpack a challenge and find their own clarity
You’re offering thoughtful advice, reflection, or reframing
You’re helping someone release what’s no longer serving them and step into a more empowered, authentic version of themself
Common challenges for Coaches:
You may take on too much emotional labor if boundaries aren’t clear
You may struggle in roles where people development isn’t at the core of your work
Reflection prompts to deepen your self-awareness:
Do you feel more energized connecting deeply with one person, or facilitating growth in a group?
Do you enjoy coaching people toward emotional insight, strategic clarity, professional progress, life goals? Something else?
Do you prefer to support others more through asking questions and listening, offering guidance, therapeutic modalities, working with the body, a combination of these, or something else?
What percent of your time in your current role is spent doing your top two Flow Zones? You should aim for 70% or higher.
What tasks and responsibilities on your To Do list aren't energizing for you? How much of your current role do they make up? Use the below language to support any restructuring you might need.
When talking to people about how you uniquely add value, you might say:
I love coaching. I’m looking for an opportunity where I can help people grow
I enjoy supporting others growth by listening, advising, educating, and cheerleading
I enjoy helping people develop self-awareness, self-trust, improve their lives and step into that next version of themselves
I love coaching. I’m looking for an opportunity where I can help people grow
I enjoy supporting others growth by listening, advising, educating, and cheerleading
I enjoy helping people develop self-awareness, self-trust, improve their lives and step into that next version of themselves
If you want to restructure your role you can use language like:
r coach more junior colleagues
Speak to your HR or Learning & Development team about getting coaching training to use with the people you manage
r coach more junior colleagues
Speak to your HR or Learning & Development team about getting coaching training to use with the people you manage
Role ideas for Coaches:
Life Coach, Career Coach, Wellness Coach, etc
Therapist, Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Human Resources, Learning & Development
Social Worker
Athletic Coach
Using your Coaching skills while managing a team
Life Coach, Career Coach, Wellness Coach, etc
Therapist, Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist
Human Resources, Learning & Development
Social Worker
Athletic Coach
Using your Coaching skills while managing a team
Your Flow Zone is just the first step…
It represents the strengths that should be at the heart of your role to support your alignment and flow.
But you will also need to clearly define your interests and environmental priorities to create a career North Star that points you towards an energizing career you love.
You have to actually be interested in the work and be working in an environment that supports your lifestyle priorities to thrive 😉
It's all outlined in The Career Fulfillment Playbook: the foundational concepts everyone needs in place to create a career that feels like an extension of who you are and how you want to live your life.
