| LEADERSHIP COACHING |  | | A FIXER NO: BEING IN TRUE SERVICE OF YOUR PEOPLE! | | Bob Benwick, MSc. OD, MCC, PCC, CPCC | | |
| | ”How can I help my Boss?” This was a simple yet fascinating question asked by a recently hired senior operations executive regarding his boss, the President. The President, who I also coach, had hired me to provide Accelerated Leadership Transition Coaching services to assure the success of this new acquisition to the executive team. Her organization had invested considerable time, money and effort in finding and bringing this unique individual on board and she was determined to protect that investment and accelerate his successful transition. In coaching him toward formulating answers to his question, the following piece was shared with him and was intended to bein service of deepening his intention, providing alternate perspective(s) and putting him in choice as to how he might truly be there for the organization and the President. The end result was his being in amazing clarity around next steps. The author is unknown, but it has always intrigued and been received very positively by all my executive clients when introduced. It is called ‘The Fixer’.
■A fixer has the illusion of being causal. A server knows s/he is being used in the service of something greater, essentially unknown.
■We fix something specific. We serve always something: wholeness and the mystery of life.
■Fixing and helping are the work of the ego. Serving is the work of the soul.
■When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix you see life as broken. When you serve you see life as whole.
■Fixing and helping may cure. Service heals.
■When I help, I feel satisfaction. When I serve, I feel gratitude.
■Fixing is a form of judgment. Serving is a form of connection.
What does this mean for you? What is the blinding glimpse of the obvious? What small or large change in perspective does this create? What are in the possibilities for you?
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