Personal Support Team

Map the people who can support you and how to reach out, so you’re not carrying everything alone. Built from relationship coaching practice.

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When to Use This Tool
I feel like I'm navigating everything alone and I'm not sure who I can turn to
I want to understand who in my life fills which support role
I have people around me but I'm not sure I'm using those relationships well
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Tool Classification
Domain
Relationships
Type
Worksheet
Phase
Discovery
Details
15 min Mid session
Topics
Identity Communication Resilience

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1 Leader promoted into isolation who has lost the peer layer below
Context

Your client was recently promoted to SVP and finds the role lonelier than expected. Below them: six direct reports they now manage. Above them: a CEO who is remote and not particularly available. Peers at their level: two other SVPs they barely know. The informal network they relied on for honest input, grounding, and celebration has stayed behind at the VP level. They describe feeling like they moved up and lost their people. Every conversation now carries a power dynamic they did not have before.

How to Introduce

Frame this as a structural question, not a personal one. 'When you moved into this role, the composition of your support...

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