ABSTRACT
The coachee was a team manager who was affected by the upcoming changes. Applications for a new internal role to safeguard himself from any upcoming threat to his job had been unsuccessful. The repeated interview rejections for the same role had left him demotivated, slightly traumatised, and unsure of what to do next. He was displaying a number of thinking errors—blaming others and himself, mind-reading, “demanding-ness”, and focusing on the negative and discounting the positive. Positive psychology plays a big part in career coaching because it helps the coachee “in developing a nuanced understanding of his or her strengths and then translating those strengths as they might be valued in the market place”. The combination of these two tools and other positive psychology and developmental coaching exercises enabled him to apply for a wider variety of roles and secure one that gave him the most satisfaction.
