Mario for First Leadership Role
Mario was 34yo and had been hired as an Independent Contributor after consulting for a few years. Mario noticed several key quality issues and had been unsuccessfully trying to get peers and managers to care about them.
Mario moved house.
Suddenly! Mario was made redundant under circumstances that eroded his confidence and made him “Hulk Angry” - All The Time! :-(
Despite trying really hard, day and night, Mario was unable to land another job for 5 months leading to many difficult circumstances.
Now, Mario also had a newborn baby.
Over 3 weeks, after a thorough review of Mario’s resume, job seeking strategies, practicing interview QnA’s, self-study of resources, calming and focusing exercises, and some guidance on general strategies, Mario finally got back into work!
But this story is just beginning…
With some stability and space, we decided to continue working together on specific challenges that Mario noted on reflection of his previous role, and some new experiences he was already having in his new Independent Contributor role.
Mario quickly re-established his work ethic and tech-prowess reputation with his new employer, and team. We then embarked on coaching for long-term career and life goals. Mario set some ambitious but achievable investment goals, and also looked into entrepreneurship along the way.
As Mario learned more about himself, and became more adept at navigating complex ambiguous organisation dynamics, he realised a lower-risk approach to owning and growing his own business (having never managed anyone before) was to actually get a promotion and manage people where he was.
Some coaching later, supported by mentoring discovered within his company, and Mario’s new “BRAG Doc”, he convinced his management to promote him based on demonstrated merit and support of several colleagues.
Soon after the first promotion and his first direct report, Mario’s team grew to four people over four months. Mario learned about meaningful 1-1’s, feedback, coaching, empowerment, delegation, strategy, time management, prioritisation and much more. Now, years later, Mario still maintains good relations with and occasionally advises those first four Direct Reports, despite everyone being in different places now. Mario has also successfully mentored one of them to into management too.
Mario’s next role started with four Directs, and within six months, he was managing a department of three teams - totalling twenty-two people.
Mario’s foundations are clearly strong, and most importantly, he leads a very balanced life - eats lunch every day, takes holidays without Slack or Microsoft Teams, has energy for family commitments, plans and leads family outings, takes lots of photos and exercises intensively nearly daily!
Mario is enjoying leading others to success for them, success for the company and success for their customers. As Mario’s teams are self-organising and continually achieving their growing targets, he is increasingly involved in special short projects which help him grow new competencies and gives much more exposure to the whole organisation and executive managers.