In partnership with AMA Coaching School, we are now able to offer e-learning programmes to organisations wanting whole cohorts of people to upskill in applied coaching skills or other managing and leadership skills too. With about 20,000 learners having enrolled in Angus McLeod’s e-learning coaching programmes since 2004, you can be assured that the learning is not tick-box ‘knowledge-only’ learning, but applied learning for use immediately. Corporates have the option of Open College Network qualification programmes or those offered by the AMA Coaching School itself and externally endorsed by the Coaching Foundation.
CBT coaching
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is predicated on looking at the human reactions to events rather than the events themselves. Performance Coaches are of course already doing this and in meta-coaching (Hall) this represents one set of a panoply of interventions regarding the perceptions and ‘frames’ of the coachee. CBT methodology involves ‘Socratic’ questioning to create discovery. Again we see links with best practice in coaching where questions are used for the benefit of the coachee’s self-understanding rather than the benefit of (for example) a very poor coach who is struggling (and misguided) to decide where to ‘lead’ the coachee. Continue reading CBT coaching
Mental Toughness in Organizations
Would you wish to do a ‘mental toughness’ course? Odds are that most executives will say “no!”. However, in a trusted setting, what response will the same manager give you when discussing the following work-based issues: being calm in times of stress, being more disciplined about the focus of their attention, balancing the demands of apparently conflicting goal-demands, feeling comfortable and positive about feedback, mental adaptation to stay ‘high-performing’ when there are inherent frustrations and pitfalls designed into the procedural and political deficiences of all medium and large organisations.
Now, there is a raised opportunity for engagement and a commitment to learning!
Micro-World
There is beauty in the human scale but also in the microscopic. A slideshow showing pictures through the electron-microscope and taken by Catherine Draycott (Head of Wellcome Images) can be seen here. As coaches we can listen and learn from the macro-scale communications of our coachees – but we also have to drill down to help them find root-causes. With electron-microscopy one can drill down to fine detail, sub-cell. As coaches we use the coachee’s language to help us to help themselves. What they learn from drilling down helps them make macro-level decisions. This too is one of the beauties of exquisite coaching. Angus.
News FREE masterclass
Free masterclass video – 4 minute and one-hour versions BOTH FREE for limited period.
These are both from an advanced coaching masterclass in Sydney, NSW and include valuable ‘debriefing’ inputs from audience and coachee. Continue reading News FREE masterclass
Human Planet
This picture is one of dozens showing on a slide-show of Timothy Allen’s still pictures taken as part of the BBC’s Human Planet programme shown last week. What can we learn that is relevant to humanity, human development and coaching? Continue reading Human Planet
News: Italian NLP Book
Me, Myself, My Team published in Italian
The Performance Organization
The problem with management science is that there invariable remains a tension between the logical business needs, as described by KPIs (including financial results) and the latest fad in HR-oriented models (from Mazslo to the Leadership Pipeline). The problem is that the two approaches never seem to meet where it matters, in the Board room. Even the so-dubbed ‘High Performance Organization’ (HPO) Model is principally an HR assortment of 5 goodies put in one box: these include employee engagement, self-directing teams, integrated production technology, organisational learning and Total Quality Management. Shouldn’t there be something more acceptable to Directors that incorporates the measurable people-performance benifits AND the business management in one package. Enter the founding principle of TPO – The Performance Organization! Continue reading The Performance Organization
News: Resilience
Resilience is sought after and as single term for a multifactoral set of traits, understanding the basics can be hard. In a 4 minute video, I propose one major component of individual resilience and a methodology for its increase over time. Factor that up for organisations and you have a resilient culture. Find out how! Continue reading News: Resilience
Bad Behaviors at Work
Tough Talking for Bad Behaviour
I continue to hear executives complaining about lack of professional behaviours in colleagues at all levels. The latest complaint concerns a Director of a regional business, part of an international conglomerate. This person is thought to be disgruntled due to his CEO’s direction and interference in his role and priorities, but staff only see the unprofessional results of whatever is going on in his immature head: the Director misses, delays and drops meetings including staff annual reviews with little or no notice; leaves meetings early; sends one-word emails to colleagues, typically ‘no’; is obstructive, unhelpful and careless towards staff including changing their jobs without consultation. What to do… Continue reading Bad Behaviors at Work