Commitment Conversations:
How Coaching Transcends the
Pitfalls of Promise-making
Micki McMillan,
M.Ed., MCC
Micki is the CEO and a
founding partner of Blue
Mesa Group, an Executive
Coaching firm. She also
serves as co-director for Blue
Mesa’s Transformational
Coaching Program, an ACTP
designed for Leadership and
Organizational Coaches
and based in Fort Collins,
Colo. Micki brings years of
experience as a corporate
leader, Executive Coach
and teacher to her work in
regions around the globe,
including Asia, Australia,
North America and Europe.
She has also shared her
expertise as a speaker
at several international
conferences, including those
hosted by the Association for
Quality and Participation,
Business Roundtable,
Women In Technology and
The Leadership Investment
(formerly Women’s
Vision Foundation).
Maria, the senior vice president of sales at a large organization, arrived at
her coaching session feeling hopeless, with a prepared letter of resignation
in her briefcase. Six months into her new position, she had not achieved
the results she confidently estimated during her hiring process.
Maria said that her peers and her direct report, the assistant vice president of sales,
were the source of her unhappiness and inability to achieve promised results. The
assistant vice president had also applied for the senior position and, according to Maria,
he seemed to resent Maria’s appointment. Her peers, she said, would just ignore her.
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