[Neurons] FW: 2009 Meta Reflections #47

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

Meta Reflections #47

October 26, 2009

Part II 

(Sent late due to internet problems)

 

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

VIA META-COACHING

 

 

I began Part I last week with the question:  What are the core competency
skills required for effective self-actualizing leaders? and commented that
I've been looking for the answer to that question since I began my studies
in Self-Actualization Psychology in 2003.  Part I identified two core
competencies for leaders and then 7 more as I related the seven core skills
of Coaching Mastery to self-actualizing leadership.

 

But there's more.  In Coaching Mastery we also train eight-skills as a
change-agent working with psychologically healthy people.  And in these
eight-skills plus two-more that I'll add here, we have 5 Leadership Axes for
when a leader is leading transformation for a group, organization, or
nation.  And these also are core competencies for effective self-actualizing
leaders.  If that interests you, then read on.

 

A leader first and foremost lives in the future.  He or she then returns to
facilitate the envisioning of that more compelling human future in the now.
But to get there, change is required.  People need to change their
behaviors, communications, beliefs, values, understandings, frames,
meanings, identities, and so on.  And that requires that leaders be
change-agents and know how to facilitate change and transformation
processes.  Do you?

 

What we introduced into Meta-Coaching several years ago was the Axes of
Change Model.  The majority of the distinctions of this model is now in the
first book in the Meta-Coaching series, Changing Change (2004 by myself and
Michelle Duval).  Unlike therapy models of change (which assume people will
inevitably resist change, relapse, lack the ego-strength to face change, are
not wired for continual change with their self-actualizing drive, and "are"
problems, rather than their frames are the problems), the Meta-Coaching
model of change operates from very different premises.

 

For psychologically healthy people we used the premises of
Self-Actualization Psychology to note four primary mechanisms that actually
bring about change that we can believe in and fully experience.  These are:
motivation, decision, creation, and integration.  To complement this for
leaders leading organizations, I have added solutions.  And using 5
meta-programs, this gives us 10 leadership skills or roles for facilitating
self-actualizing change.

 

Self-Actualizing Transformation:

There are two leadership competencies for leading the inspiration that
energizes the motivation of followers to envision a more compelling future.

This is based on the motivation meta-program of away-from dis-values and
toward desired values.  Leaders first facilitate seeing what is clearly as
well as awakening a new vision of what's possible and then use the creative
tension between them (Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline) for energy to forge
a pathway to an exciting future.

1) Leader as Challenger

2) Leader as Visionary Awakener

 

There are two leadership competencies for leading the creation of meaning
that informs and invigorates followers with a robust sense of
meaningfulness.

This is based on the internal and external reference meta-program that
facilitates the creation of meaning in two dimensions, in mind and semantics
as the inner game and in body and neurology as the outer game.  Leaders
identify and transform the frames that govern the game and that open up new
possibilities for an entirely new way to function and to be.

3) Leader as Framer

                        4) Leader as Activist

 

There are two leadership competencies for leading the engagement for a full
commitment to the vision and for signing-on mind and heart of the followers.

This is based on the response style meta-program from reflective to active.
Leaders first engage in town-meeting dialogues that begin the
self-actualizing conversation and conclude by enrolling people for a
decision and commitment.  This takes the group or community to a
collaborative engagement where we can achieve so much more together than
alone or apart.

5) Leader as Collaborator

                        6) Leader as Enroller

 

There are two leadership competencies for leading a clear understanding of
the problems and the solutions that together the organization will create
and innovate.

This is based on the staging meta-program of pessimism and optimism which
enables a leader to first clearly define the actual problem (and not a
symptom, peripheral issue, semantic riddle, or self-reflexive paradox) and
then focus in a visionary way on the solutions that resolve the problem that
is blocking the future.  Leaders facilitate conversations that generate
well-formed outcomes, problems, solutions, and innovations.

7) Leader as Problem Definer

                        8) Leader as Problem Solver

 

There are two leadership competencies for leading the organization's kaizen
or continual learning and improvement in quality and service.

This is based on the comparison meta-program of matching and mismatching
where we perceive and sort for either sameness or difference.  Leaders
cheerlead by honoring, supporting, and celebrating every small success along
the way so that they can then challenge and refine what isn't working as
well as it could possibly work.  This generates the experience of kaizen in
an organization.

9) Leader as Cheerleader

                        10) Leader as Refiner

 

So there you have it.  Ten additional core competencies for effective
self-actualizing leaders.  Where can you find more about this?  Well, while
it is not published in a book (yet), it is written in the training manual of
the Unleashing Leadership workshop and it is part of the conversation we
have with that leadership development program.

            

 

 

 

 

Unleashing Leadership Workshop

 

The latest book in the Self-Actualization Series and in the Meta-Coach
series is Unleashing Leadership: Self-Actualizing Leaders and Companies
(2009).   As a leadership development workshop, discover how to identify
your leadership potentials and unleash them --- whether for self-leadership
or leadership in an opportunity that awaits you.

 

Dec. 11-13, Imola, Italy

            Sponsored by Bless You --- Nicola Riva and Lucia Giovannini

            Nicola at blessyou.it 

            Special gathering on Dec. 14 for Meta-Coaches and NS trainers 

at the home of Nicola and Lucia.

 

 

 

 

--- Meta-Coach Trainings coming 2009 - 2010

 

                                   

1) South Africa

     Oct. 22, 23-30 - Coaching Mastery.  Pretoria, South Africa

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    Cell : 083 267 1412   Tel: 012 362 6542    Fax : 088 012 362 6641

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2) Australia

       November 19, 20-27 - Coaching Mastery.  Sydney, Australia

      Sponsors: Laureli Blyth and Heidi Heron                  

      Heidi at nlpworldwide.com              Laureli at nlpworldwide.com 

 

 

3) China --- 2010

      Meta-Coaching in two parts --   January 17-22 and May 9-14  (6 days
each time): 

Includes also Module II (Coaching Genius).  

            Guangzhou, China:  Sponsor: Team Huang --- supported by
Neuro-Semantic Trainers: 

Mandy Chai and Wilkie Choi   For Chinese---   yeshow at 163.net .  For English
speakers: 

Mandy Chai: chaimansun at yahoo.com.hk 

 

 

4) Mexico --- 2010

     In two parts --- March 4-7 (March 3 for Team Leaders) and April 15-18
(April 14 for Team Leaders). 

     Sponsor: Salom Change Dynamics-  www.salomchd.com  (55) 30930687 ---
emilia at salomchd.com

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics

Meta-Coach Training System

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