Self-Coaching for HR Leaders: Do the Work Without the Work Doing You

If you work in HR, you don’t just handle policies and paperwork.

• You hold hard stuff.
• You hear people’s stories.
• You deal with conflict.
• You sit in the middle when no one else wants to.
• You’re expected to stay calm, fair, and steady — even when things are messy.

And then you’re supposed to go to your next meeting or go home like none of that just happened.

This workshop teaches Self-Coaching for Leaders, simple skills you can use to build calm-confidence, support your well-being, and create better results at work and in life.

Most burnout doesn’t come from one big incident or change.

It comes from the slow build:

• Thinking about work long after you’ve left
• Replaying conversations in your head
• Feeling like you should fix things that aren’t really yours to fix
• Carrying stress from both sides and having nowhere to put it

Self-coaching helps you notice what’s happening inside you when the pressure is on and choose a steadier, more helpful way to respond.

Not fake calm.

Not “just be positive.”

Real calm-confidence you can use in the middle of real work.

In this session, you’ll learn how to use self-coaching:

• Before tough conversations, to get grounded and clear
• During those drive-by moments that can derail your day
• After hard moments, so the work doesn’t follow you home

This is about learning how to care without burning yourself out.

It’s about staying human without taking everything on or burning the relationship.

It’s about doing your job well - without the job slowly taking you with it.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the sneaky mental habits that drive stress and burnout

Spot the common habits that lead to over-functioning, emotional carryover, and exhaustion in HR roles.

2. Use self-coaching before, during, and after hard moments

Apply a simple self-coaching process to prepare for tough conversations, reset between emotionally charged moments, and let go of what isn’t theirs to carry.

3. Respond with calm-confidence in complex situations

Choose steadier, more effective internal responses in real HR scenarios to improve outcomes without absorbing unnecessary emotional weight.

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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