Train the Trainer Week 3 – Lesson Plan

Learning Objectives and Outcomes  
What is the lesson designed to accomplish? 

To help students frame the process of thinking about their practice
This thinking will lead to the achievement of ICF core competencies for establishing the coaching agreement
Outcomes of this class will also feed deeper discussion in AC100 and 200 classes on Creating Structure, Trail Session, etc.

What is [...]

Group selection and coaching for adaptability

For background: http://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-controversy-of-group-selection-theory/
There is a scientific theory in evolutionary biology called Multilevel Selection Theory, or Group Selection Theory.  The short version is that Darwin wrote about only one part of evolution – the evolutionary success of adaptive, fit individuals.  However, some groups survive even if the individuals in them are not the fittest in the [...]

Millennial Leaders: Will they survive?

Margaret Wheatley (http://www.margaretwheatley.com/) has said
“I strongly believe that the old leadership paradigm has failed us and that our current systems will continue to unravel.  This has changed what I do and whom I choose to support.  I no longer spend any time trying to fix or repair the old or to improve old leadership methods.  [...]

Reflections on Train the Trainer Week 2 – Competencies

Target class: Getting Started
Planned Delivery Date: Saturday, Nov 29 4 pm EST
Competencies
Background:
See ICF Professional Core Competencies:

A2 Setting the Foundation: Establishing the Coaching Agreement
Ability to understand what is required in the specific coaching interaction and to come to agreement with the prospective and new client about the coaching process and relationship

a. Understands and effectively discusses with [...]

How coaching can fill the gap left by retiring Boomer managers

Though the economy is stalling many retirement plans, there are still a whole lot of empty management holes being left behind retiring boomers.  
As experienced managers retire, companies face the challenge not just of replacing them, but of bringing their replacements up to speed efficiently and effectively.  In many cases, Boomer’s replacements, often Millennials (people [...]

Top 10 tips for managers working with Millennials

Here’s the top 10 tips for managers working with Millennials:
10. Put yourself in their shoes.  Remember what it was like being 26.  Did you understand why your parents and their friends did what they did?
9. Rewind 20 to 30 years.  You’ve had years and years to learn.  They haven’t.  Start there.
8. Delegate using the Tell, [...]

Attributes that make vendors valuable to CIOs

In http://blogs.cioinsight.com/cgi-bin/mte/mt-tb.cgi/15776, Eric Lundquist in CIOInsight lists the attributes CIOs believe make employees valuable who are headed for mid-level manager positions (Society for Information Managers (SIMS)).  
Turns out they are the same attributes that make vendors valuable, too.  In my opinion, they are the attributes that make ANYONE valuable!
All of those attributes are coachable.
All of [...]

Twitter for business 2

I’ve blogged before about the need to move from a machine-model of business to an organism-model.  Here’s a perspective from CIO Insight that sees twitter as a catalyst for the ecosystem in which business is an organism:
“Dave Winer, a developer who helped pioneer RSS (Real Simple Syndication), XML-RPC (the standard that evolved into SOAP) and other Web [...]

Twitter for business

Well, an adaptive coach needs to be adaptive, don’t you think?  I’m already on facebook, linkedin, and wordpress.  Now I’m also on twitter!
I just started tweeting on twitter (https://twitter.com/adaptivecoach), and it’s actually really fun!  I hope you will follow me, and let me know your twitter so I can follow you too.
Cheers,
 
Vickie

Perspectives and Emotions

Changing perspectives is a great way to open doors to new understanding.  After all, our perspective is what creates our reality.
“Pretend” was the biggest perspective-changer in my life.  A great coach and friend, Michele McCarthy, told me, “Pretend that everything that happens to you happens because you want it to happen and you always get [...]