This image speaks at first glance of a client-agent relationship.
Whether that helper is a therapist, mentor, coach or experience counsellor.
But in my view, a manager is also a helper.
Perhaps the picture is also about the relationship between the manager and the team member.
But since we have not taught anyone to communicate perfectly, we must now learn to do so.
Psychological and therapeutic expertise in management is an obvious need today.
A visible symptom of this is the epidemic of burnout and boredom.
By therapeutic knowledge, I mean the knowledge of how the unconscious past and situations we cannot remember affect the present.
This knowledge also means the ability to come to the present by escaping into the future.
More specifically, the past and the future take the present moment away from us.
But if there is no present, what is there?
But we can’t move into the future until I have come to the present from the past.
As a therapist and mentor to leaders, I see that most people have not yet come from the past to the present either.
Physically, of course, we are here, but mentally there are a lot of subconscious patterns that keep us in the past without even knowing it.
For example, through reactions that are inappropriate to the situation, but come nonetheless.
Be it in traffic, fights at work, protesting change, needing attention, burnout, etc.
Burnout is a very good example – in the vast majority of cases it is an unconscious need for attention and recognition.
But the key word is unconscious – what we are looking for is linked to something from the past where it was missed.
Generally speaking, a person cannot get it by ordinary thinking and talking, it requires deeper techniques and practices.
Simply taking time off for a few weeks will not solve the problem.
It needs deeper work with the unconscious layers of oneself.
Obviously, the manager may not always be able to do this, but the manager might be interested in learning such techniques or in offering to help the person with a specialist and buying in this competence.
What is lacking in organisations and what is constantly being sought from the future is the person.
But man himself is only in the present.
In order to come into the present, it is necessary to work through the clouds of the past and turn them into a resource for the present.
The future, and business goals, then seem to fulfil themselves.
The plant in the picture is starting to grow.
But it only grows here and now.
