Goal Obstacles Planner

A director of strategy has been in two prior coaching engagements and describes both as 'useful but incomplete.' In the current engagement, she has defined a clear goal — building a strategic planning practice for her team — and has made early progress. Her previous engagements also began well before losing momentum at roughly the month-three mark. She attributes the stalls to external factors: organizational change, competing priorities, a manager transition. Her coach suspects the stall pattern is predictable and connected to a specific type of obstacle she has not yet prepared for.

Use the pattern directly as the entry point. 'You've named external factors as what derailed the last two goals, and tho...