Personal Goals and Avenues for Achieving Them

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Personal Goals and Avenues for Achieving Them

• Coaching and Transformational Leadership

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The Way to Here

• Harlan Clevelands vision of leadership the
  self-selected many
• The bigger picture systems thinking, the
  multi-faceted view, the legal and community
  contexts
• Scotts challenge to fully realize ones own
  potential

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A Taste of Possibilities- Overview

• A little about coaching
• An experience of being coached
• How coaching works
• Conversation

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Your Personal Strategic Plan

• Goals
• Long-term
• Short-term
• Personal
• Organizational
• Action Plans
• Organic, responsive and expansive
• Metrics

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The Secret

• The coaching process surfaces and explores the
  clients mental models about
• Work
• Relationships
• Him/her self

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The Challenge

• Write down one really big challenge which you are
  committed to addressing
• Write down five responses or solutions youve
  come up

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As you listen to the coaching

• Listen for the possibilities in your own
  challenge
• Create more solutions

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The Core Premises of Coaching

• The client holds his/her own answers
• The coach is a partner in the process
• Staying with the inquiry uncovers multiple, new
  avenues for response
• Staying in possibility encourages learning
• The effects of change are contagious
• Sustained engagement supports and continues
  change

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Coaching in the Corporate and Non-profit Sectors

• Executive coaching in Fortune 500 companies
• Studies of ROI suggest significant returns in
  productivity
• Executive coaching in the nonprofit sector
• Statistically significant improvements re
  relationships with staff clarity of vision
  support of Board and staff alignment with vision
• Improved balance between personal and
  professional lives
• Increased sense of self-confidence

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Coaching Educators

• Brande Foundation project with NSDC some
  outcomes
• Increased focus and balance in life and at work
• Rediscovered passion for the work
• Increased effectiveness in planning,
  communicating, inspiring
• Generating solutions which are right for the
  individual and organization

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Modes and Methods

• Individual coaching an external partner in
• brainstorming without a political agenda
• reflection and self-accountability
• surfacing, exploring and extending mental models

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• Internal coaching
• Serves as a resource to individuals within the
  system
• Helps build the capacity of individual,
  self-selected leaders

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Leadership and Personal Transformation

• The first and paramount responsibility of anyone
  who purports to manage is to manage self ones
  own integrity, character, ethics, knowledge,
  wisdom, temperament, words and actsIt is the
  management of self that should occupy 50 percent
  of our time and the best of our ability. And
  when we do that, the ethical, moral and spiritual
  elements of management are inescapable.
• (Dee Hock, founder and CEO emeritus of Visa USA,
  Visa International and founder of Chaordic
  Alliance. Leader to Leader. Winter 2000)