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10th Annual Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference Recap
RESEARCH YOU WANT TO KNOW
Career Coaching for the 21st Century-11/16 Stakeholder Centered Coaching-12/6
COACHING REPORT
DIRECTOR'S CORNER
Career Conversations In Coaching Coaching for Role Transitions/Career Change
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Coaching for Performance by Sir John Whitmore
EVENTS
Jeff Hull on Coaching the Post-Heroic Leader
November 2017
BOOK OF THE MONTH
COACHX
The IOC Inaugural award for Excellence in Leadership was awarded to Marshall Goldsmith for his work on Stakeholder Centered Coaching (SCC) and his action philanthropy project the MG100. At the conference, Marshall led a fascinating panel discussion on SCC with three major CEO coaches, revealing how he works. Dan Goleman kicked off our event talking about the Science of Mindfulness. His new book Altered Traits shows how meditation can change who we are, not just our momentary experience.
What do Dan Goleman, Marshall Goldsmith, Susan Cain, Margaret Wheately and Livingston Taylor have in common? They were all part of our amazing keynote line-up at the 2017 IOC Coaching Conference. If you missed them, you can soon see them on our website conference pages. Over 600 people from every inhabited continent met for an amazing experience at our 10th anniversary conference, dedicated to our beloved advisor, friend and “Father of Coaching,” Sir John Whitmore. Much of his legacy is shared in the fifth edition of Coaching for Performance, just released this fall. He will be sorely missed.
2017 Coaching in Healthcare and Leadership Conference Recap
Director's Corner
Susan Cain, whose TED talk has over 16 million viewers, shared her thinking on Quiet: How to Harness the Strengths of Introverts to Transform How We Work, Lead and Innovate. Introverts are a third or half of the workforce, and we need to structure our organizations to produce the best ideas and creativity. Margaret Wheatley asked: Who do we choose to be? She talked of Restoring Leadership as a Noble Profession and how all of us can see local issues and focus on them to create positive change and together shift the world. The Institute is dedicated to helping the world’s coaches, and those we coach to work toward being a force for good. Please visit us and learn more.
Fall 2017 Featured Coaching Research Irina Todorova, IOC Director of Research
Warmly, Carol Kauffman, PhD Executive Director, Institute of Coaching
In October, the IOC had several opportunities to highlight and support coaching research. During the Annual Conference on October 13th and 14th, we organized research sessions at which many scholars presented their most recent work on a variety of research topics in health coaching, workplace and leadership coaching and career coaching. These sessions included outstanding talks and posters from prominent scholars who have been members of the Scientific Advisory Council, as well as current and past Harnisch grant recipients: Gary Sforzo, Ruth Wolever, Tatiana Bachkirova, Reinhard Stelter and Gordon Spence. The 2017 poster awards were presented to Carolin Graßmann (for Best Poster), France Asselin, and Elizabeth Ahmann with co-authors Micah Saviet, Lisa Joy Tuttle(Honorable Mention Awards). One of the research sessions was by Janice Sabatine and Steven Wendell, who are current Harnisch Scholars and are also hosting our November Webinar, Career Coaching for the 21st Century. Their conference presentation, Strategies and Two-year Results for a Vision-based Coaching Supplement to a Graduate Student Career Course, was based on Janice and Steven’s on-going study and addressed issues in research and practice of career coaching. I’ve highlighted several other publications relevant to career coaching. The first is an article recently published in Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice; and the second is a chapter from the valuable resource, The Sage Handbook of Coaching.
Career conversations in coaching: the contribution that career theory can make to coaching practice Julia Yates Full text available to IOC members. This article highlights the fact that career related conversations often happen in coaching, and draws attention to the variety of theories and research findings that can inform coaching practice in these cases. It uses as its base three recent dissertations completed at a Master of Science program on Career Coaching. The research methodology used in all the dissertations is Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis - a qualitative method that allows for an in-depth and detailed understanding of people’s experiences. In this case, the studies look into the unique experiences associated with changing careers of three groups for whom there is not much information available: Black African women entrepreneurs, academic scientists who transition to industry research, and people moving to being a career practitioner. Some of the unique themes, as well as the cross-cutting themes for all these groups are identified, and relevant career coaching theories are referenced. Some of these common issues relevant to career changes are existing “push-pull” factors - pushing people away from a current career, while attracting them to a different alternative; the congruence (or its absence) between one’s values and those of the organization; the related quest for meaning in one’s career; the role of the social network in decision making and particularly that of role models. A related theme is that of identity construction and its relationship to one’s profession, including the complicated process of identity change that accompanies career change. Some of these dimensions of career choice and transitions divert from more traditional linear models of career development, often seen as an individual choice, addressed also in the chapter highlighted below (Parker, 2017). The authors tie these themes to existing theories of career development, to which we can also add narrative theory (McMahon & Watson, 2012). The article summarizes the relevance of theories and research in career development for when the topic of careers and career change come up in coaching, since they provide useful frameworks to guide the coaching process.
McMahon, M., & Watson, M. (2012). Story crafting: Strategies for facilitating narrative career counselling.International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 12(3), 211-224. doi: 10.1007/s10775-012-9228-5 Yates, J., Oginni, T., Olway, H., & Petzold, T. (2017). Career conversations in coaching: the contribution that career theory can make to coaching practice. Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 10(1), 82-93. doi: 10.1080/17521882.2017.1287209
Coaching for Role Transitions/Career Change Polly Parker From the Introduction: “This chapter integrates recent and relevant outcomes from both the coaching and careers literature to focus on managing successful career transitions. The discussion commences with an introduction to coaching and the positioning of career coaching as a specialized form of coaching. Next, the changing world of work and its impact on career is explored. Relevant career theories that identify change, mobility and uncertainty are then outlined as frameworks for coaches and clients to assist sense-making through transition experiences. This is followed by a discussion of the theoretical underpinnings of change and transition, in order to highlight the particular dynamics that are expected at different stages of the transition process. The chapter concludes by presenting recent approaches to career coaching that address key issues of managing career transition and identifying a possible agenda for future research. “ Parker, P. (2017). Coaching for role transitions/Career change. In T. Bachkirova, G. Spence & D. Drake (Eds.),The Sage Handbook of Coaching(pp. 419): Sage Pub.
Coaching for Performance is the grandfather of coaching books and coaching approaches. Thousands of high performing organizations have tapped into its wisdom; it's the introductory text of choice for many coaching programs. It is however, invaluable to the more established coach as well. The book begins with a few foundational beliefs of coaches. Unlike old models of management that work from the “carrot and stick” approach, a coach believes in the potential of the client. Whitmore believes that people are able to change only that of which they are aware. Responsibility must stay with the client if they are to perform. The goal of coaching is to increase self-awareness and self-responsibility. This is achieved through an arc of questions, the GROW model of coaching. This acronym is: Goal, Reality, Options and Will. In private conversations John has shared that the G really is the Vision, (VROW wouldn’t catch on, he jokes). Vision is followed by seeing reality clearly, developing options and then decision time. All primarily through questions and client self-checks. What is new in this 5th edition? First it includes insights from increased experience. It also introduces The Performance Curve that maps the culture of an organization and how it tracks to performance; this approach is now seen and described as core to coaching. While the 5th edition retains all of the previous great insights, it's even more practical with new case studies and a section on feedback. Finally, John's chapter on the benefits of coaching and his approach to coaching "return on investment" are both updated.
Jeff Hull discusses how coaching is ideally suited as a primary intervention in support of the transformational and developmental path towards a post-heroic perspective.You can also read Jeff's related blog post: From Alpha and Beta to Back: Coaching the Post-Heroic Leader.
Please join Drs, Steven Wendell and Janice Sabatine for an online group discussion forum on topics selected from the webinar feedback. We believe sharing your collective wisdom and curiosity will highly enrich the initial concepts presented in the webinar. Registration is free, but limited to first 100 students.
Discussion Forum After the Webinar: Career Coaching for the 21st Century with Steve Wendell, PhD and Janice Manzi Sabatine, PhD, PCC Thursday, November 30th Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
In this webinar, we will explore coaching strategies and the most recent research topics related to career coaching. These include combining group and one-on-one career coaching, honoring the client’s adult development stage and personality type preferences, and the role of assessments such as the Career Adapt-Ability Scale (CAAS) associated with Career Construction theory of Mark Savickas.
NOVEMBER Career Coaching for the 21st Century with Steve Wendell, PhD and Janice Manzi Sabatine, PhD, PCC Thursday, November 16th Time: 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm EDT
Marshall Goldsmith, inaugural winner of the IOC's Leadership in Coaching award and author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There and Triggers will present his novel approach to working with leaders. Stakeholder Centered Coaching, which was developed by Marshall Goldsmith, is a highly effective, transparent, structured and time efficient process that works. Marshall’s highly successful approach to executive development and coaching includes a strong emphasis on involvement of stakeholders, implementation of change and follow-through to measure growth in leadership effectiveness. In the end the only thing that counts is leadership growth i.e. leadership (behavior) effectiveness on the job as perceived by stakeholders. As Marshall puts it: “Leadership Change and Coaching are simple but not easy!”
DECEMBER Stakeholder Centered Coaching with Marshall Goldsmith Wednesday, December 6th Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm EDT
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