The coach talked about ways to preserve the inner core of the leader.

In today's world, in an era of total uncertainty, when conditions change faster than annual budgets are approved, managers often lose their balance in an attempt to find external support. Yulia Ovchinnikova, executive coach, business supervisor, and author of the book "Archetypes of a Leader," spoke to Izvestia on February 15 about how not to lose her inner core.

She compared the managers' work to a forest during a storm. According to her, large and powerful trees are always the first to fall, and in the context of work, those managers who strive to look indestructible are often the first to break. Ovchinnikova emphasized that the inner core is a combination of resilience and adaptability and is threatened by self-doubt.

According to the expert, the "roots" are past experience. She called the need to realize the existence of supports an important task. The coach clarified that a sense of one's own strength through personal victories helps to make decisions from a completely different state. When the core is under threat, people, according to Ovchinnikova, fuss instead of acting, sleep less due to scrolling through the same anxious thoughts, and also feel that the scale of tasks has become "bigger" than the person himself.

For independent work, the coach recommended fixing the qualities that helped a person get out of difficult situations as a winner, and assigning this characteristic to himself as the "root" of the nutrition of the current project. In case of a dead end, the specialist recommended convincing herself of the existence of a solution. Ovchinnikova also advised highlighting once-beloved, but departed deeds, since the core begins with the fact that people allow themselves to be alive.

"In times of crisis, the head often makes the mistake of appropriating all the company's problems and turning them into personal guilt. <...> Transferring fear from your head to paper allows you to start working with facts as with ordinary business tasks, and not as with a personal disaster. The inner support is restored at the moment when you regain the role of an observer, and not a victim of circumstances," Ovchinnikova emphasized.

The coach drew attention to the fact that a specialist should be contacted when the price of a decision is measured by millions and fates of people. She stressed that the core characterizes, among other things, the courage to recognize the need for an "external observer" to see the so-called blind spots and regain the right to influence large systems. Ovchinnikova urged to trust oneself both in the context of life and in business.

On January 20, Lidiya Inshina, a clinical psychologist, specialist in manipulation and extreme communication, spoke about methods of dealing with stress during work. According to her, it is necessary to have at least one object on the desktop that will remind you of goals or life outside the office. She clarified that the object will serve as a visual trigger that helps to quickly get out of a stressful state and restore inner balance.

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