It’s no news that organizations face multiple needs to adapt to changes in their operational environments. For instance, millennials’ values differ partly drastically from middle-agers’. Expectations of what makes a good leader are no longer the same as they were a decade ago.
Even very experienced coaches and mentors admit to worrying that sometimes they are not taking the conversation deep enough, or giving enough challenge to the coachee or mentee. They feel held back by the concern that they may open up the emotional floodgates on an issue that requires professional therapeutic intervention.
But people do! It sounds radical but it is not. Accepting this is the key to understanding what the future holds for us and so, for organizational development.
As a successful leader or organizational developer, you have to have enough understanding about these changes and their impacts. Learning systemic coaching skills can help you with that.
In all the major models of human maturity, two qualities recur constantly: wisdom and connectedness. Wisdom, as exemplified by the original mentor, Athene, relates to the process of reflection upon and learning from experience. The scope of wisdom is therefore associated with and to some extent limited by the range of experiences, to which a person is exposed, either directly or vicariously, intendedly or unintendedly.
Management teams face the same problems as all teams around the world: common goals and joint decisions are lacking, interaction is of low quality and the team members do not feel valued. These issues need to be solved, if the team wants to be successful.
When was the last time you have exposed your vulnerability to your management team? When was the last time, that you admitted that something was difficult or emotionally straining for you?
As I’m sitting here, in the middle of a Shanghaian subway station suburb, writing this blog post about learning, a group of old people comes sit to the table next to me. I listen to them being their loud, own selves, making fun of each other and enjoying beer and tea on a sunny Wednesday afternoon.
In challenging working environments, resilience is increasingly an essential competence. People, who are resilient, are better able to cope with unexpected change, with setbacks and disappointments, with high stress environments and with periods of excessive workload.
Wоrkіng wіth a соасh іѕ an enlightening life сhаngіng experience. Cоасhіng can аѕѕіѕtѕ уоu in gеttіng аhеаd іn lіfе bу рuttіng kеу components in order, to rеасh your full potential, both іn уоur professional аnd personal lіfе.
Asking questions is something we do all the time. It’s essential to how we learn, how we keep safe, how we collaborate with other people, how we make decisions, and so on… It’s a core skill of being human, yet few people stop to think about how they ask questions or whether they could be better at doing so.
A vast amount has been written about the competencies of coaches and mentors, and even more about the qualities of great leaders. Much of this is contradictory and dependent on circumstance or context.
What words do you use to describe your most difficult and resistant clients or groups? Sarcastic, demeaning, stubborn, obstinate, aggressive, uninvolved, defensive, sleepy, passive, etc. . . .you know which ones you have experienced and which are the hardest for you personally to deal with.
Resilienssi tarkoittaa kykyä selviytyä äkillisten muutosten ja myrskyjen keskellä. Käsite on laajentunut traumaattisten kokemusten kohtaamisesta kattamaan työyhteisöissä tapahtuvia murroksia ja muutoksia.
Valmentava mentorointi on nousemassa entistä keskeisemmäksi tekijäksi organisaatioiden kehittämismenetelmien joukossa. Mentorointihankkeiden voima piilee siinä, että se sitouttaa mentorit ja mentoroitavat ottamaan itse vastuuta omasta kehittymisestään.
Suomalaisessa mentorointiperimästä löytyy paljon samanlaisia tarinoita. Kokeneet mentorit pitävät monologeja ja kuvittelevat siten siirtävänsä osaamistaan toiselle. Mentori näkee tällöin osaamisensa absoluuttisena, koska hän näkee tehtäväkseen kertoa omaa kokemustaan ja viisauttaan toiselle.
