The coaching questions were enough to make progress Leadership Coaching
How do I bring up a sensitive challenge with my board chair?
Innovation through exposure to variation
Society is an extremely large and complexly interacting system and, whether we like it or not, such systems are error controlled. This means, paradoxically, that in them change and evolution can come about only as the result of deviation and pathology, and that without these imperfections a system would become hopelessly stagnant and sterile.
How do you get 2 teams that are dependent upon each other for success to work through a challenge?
The goal of team building is to develop a method that will reduce the dysfunctional interaction and allow future problems to be ameliorated before a team breakdown occurs.
Where there is no friction there is no leading
When we all agree utopia is realized, we have no movement because we are satiated. Leadership is about moving people towards what’s working and away from what’s not working. We need discord. We need friction.
How am I supposed to make sense of all this?
Part of sense-making is removing the perceived expert from your work and placing you, the expert, at the periphery of your work.
So busy at work, what do managers think is their work?
“Managers and knowledge workers, such as consultants, now spend 90% to 95% of their working hours in meetings, on the phone and responding to email.”
A snake eating its tail reinforcing a cynical, disengaged workforce
To have a manager who cannot exercise leadership is a bad manager. To have a leader who cannot manage is a useless, charismatic moron.
Solution-Focused Coaching Habit of cutting off people when talking
Ask them if they agree this is a problem. NO agreement on the problem no coaching can take place.
Solution Focused to create a shared goal
It has proven very useful to invest enough time for the definition of the goal. The more you talk about it, the clearer and more relevant it becomes. It is important to be very concrete when it comes to team goals and future actions.
Team and leadership coaching questions
Leadership and Team Coaching sound nice until you have to put it into practice. I’ve developed a team and leadership coaching process called SOLVED.