How to help a senior client weighing a big move choose from their Superpower
A senior client is at a real fork, weighing a bigger seat, a new field, or their own thing. Every option is defensible, and the list keeps ending in a tie. Help them choose on what the list can't measure.
The list ties because it only weighs what a move shows on paper: title, pay, scope. It says nothing about what really decides how the next years feel: whether the seat gives the rarest thing your client does room to grow.
Their profile gives you a way to see it. Open the client's two Superpowers and pick the one that feels most alive in this decision. Read its two lines: How to Nurture (what it needs to grow) and How to Protect (what quietly starves it).
Then work it in three moves.
- Put the real options on the table. Name the two or three moves in plain terms: the seat, the job, an ordinary Tuesday in each.
- Hold each option against the two lines. One at a time, let them find the read instead of handing it over: "Picture a normal week in it. When does your Superpower get to fire? When does it sit idle?" One option comes alive; one goes quiet. When the client feels that flash, follow it.
- Name the reversible first step. Once they're leaning, shrink it to one small test they can run this week: an hour with someone living it, or a day of the work. Small enough that a no costs almost nothing. Have them write the line: "By Friday, I will ..."
The client leaves holding a direction, the move where their Superpower grows, and one reversible step to test it. Not the leap decided, but the fork resolved.
Coaching questions
Not a worksheet. Pull whatever fits once one option comes alive.
Putting the options in the room
- Which one are you arguing yourself into, and whose voice is doing the arguing?
Holding each against the Superpower
- Which move have you been underrating because it looks smaller on paper?
Choosing and testing
- If none is perfect, which one gives the rarest thing you do the most room?
- What's the smallest way to try that this week?
- A year in, which choice would you most regret not having tried?
