Core Competencies Fall Summit with Jennie Antolak, MCC

Your Client Wants to Change. Their Behavior Tells Another Story. Rethinking How We Apply the ICF Core Competencies

Your client wants to establish better boundaries but keeps saying yes.

A leader wants to delegate but continues taking control.

A professional wants to step into greater visibility but repeatedly finds reasons to stay behind the scenes.

You’ve partnered with your client to clarify what they want, explored possibilities, evoked awareness, and supported them in identifying meaningful actions.

They leave the session with new insights and a commitment to doing something differently.

And yet, the same behaviors keep showing up.

What if the behaviors our clients most want to change are the very behaviors helping them remain true to something they aren’t yet willing to lose?

A client can genuinely want to change while remaining equally committed to the story that makes their current behavior feel necessary.

Saying yes may preserve an identity of being dependable.