25 March 2007
Successful Intentions Newsletter
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Good coaching is Transactional.
Great coaching is Transformational!
Coaching helps managers overcome a fundamental dilemma. The dilemma of needing agreement and certainty to keep the Transactional processes of business operating efficiently, while at the same time searching out bold and uncertain Transformational business opportunities!
It's like gravity…
Managers are more comfortable with their "feet on the ground", where the probability of outcomes from business decisions is known, and where there is ample agreement about what to do.
But the opportunities that could transform the business and create significant leverage are not to be found at ground level. They exist out in "possibility space", far above the gravitational pull of ordinary, linear, safe and certain business decision-making.
"To shoot for the stars you have to break away from gravity!"
There are four types of coaching to help managers get into orbit:
- Transactional Coaching (TA): Improving the manager's efficient handling of business processes, people and teams. The emphasis is on behaviour and skill development. Just enough boost to get you into "low rise orbit" but not enough to prevent you falling back to earth eventually!
- Transpositional Coaching (TP): Helping the manager to see themselves and others from different points of view. Sometimes the truth of 360-degree feedback hurts! Here's where EQ (emotional intelligence) really plays a part and gets you into a "geo-stationery" orbit where you're more likely to stay!
- Transgressional Coaching (TG): Literally, "crossing the boundaries". The manager discovers a new way of seeing their world - strategically, politically, or dynamically. This is the profound "aha!" moment and represents the transition into "possibility space".
- Transformational Coaching (TF): At the outer limits this kind of coaching provokes a fundamental re-assessment of identity and sense of meaning - a kind of "life, the Universe and everything!" moment. The manager essentially "re-discovers" that which was known all along. This is where "executive wisdom" emerges!
Of course, getting into orbit is one thing, but you need to bring the discoveries back to earth to make them work! Great coaching helps you return from "possibility space" without burning up on re-entry!
You can download the "Coaching Orbits" Model here.
Find out how you can get into orbit with great coaching here!
Keep your intentions clear,
Peter Webb
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