I was working with my husband last week in the small office that we share in our home, and while we were working I encountered a specific problem in a project that I was working with. After trying to solve the problem on my own, I turned to my husband for some assistance which he also had no answer for.
Later on that night he contacted his brother in Georgia to elicit some advice which also did not help us solve the problem but brought us closer to a possible solution. Well to make a long story short, by the end of the evening we found a working solution to our problem, and this week I am half way finishing the project.

I thought about the steps that brought on this resolution, and I can only conclude that’s the power of coaching. With coaching you have two minds working together for the same cause, which means that you cannot fail, and you can only succeed. In this scenario if I insisted on solving the problem on my own, not only it would have taken longer, but it is possible that I would not be able to solved the issue.
The decision to partner with my husband in this project made available to me resources that were not available to me before. For that reason I know as nurses begin to make the decision to partner with coaches for career advancement, I can assure you that the possibilities are going to be endless.