[Neurons] evaluating coachee resourcefulness and meta-outcomes of coaching

[Angus McLeod]

>From Prof. Angus McLeod, PhD


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I am so happy to see Doug Cartright's notes about possible introductory
sessions and testing for resourcefulness in the coachee. It is timely for me
as I have been updating course workbooks on Coachee Resourcefulness to
expand the measures. 

 

It seems a common trait of 'unqualified and poorly skilled people who are
hanging up coaching signs' (Hall, 2010)1 that their 'training' had focussed
on goals and goal setting but missed completely the resourcefulness of the
coach! This resourcefulness can involve psychological and emotional
'strengths' but resource-checks can also look for poor goal-mindsets too.
Coaches may find that a coachee has a life (that is) already cluttered by
action lists and failure - the good coach will seek to bring
coachee-awareness to that, while the poorly-trained coach will be stoking up
more action plans, and more failure! 

 

Coaching to my mind is predicted upon moving from issues and desired goals
to sustainable targets and repeated success. Un-resourced coachees do not
quite fit the picture do they?Repeated success patterns and the building,
ultimately of greater self-esteem, are meta-outcomes in professional
coaching (as opposed to small 'c' coaches3 where these things may not happen
at all). For repeated success we also look for repeated self-acknowledgement
too (in the coachee). Unless a coachee self-resources via acknowledgement,
they will lose steam - I know of one highly talented and successful man, a
friend, who ended up committing suicide due to an inability to acknowledge
his very considerable successes. He felt like a failure.

 

When we help coachees to 'learn how they learn' and apply their learning,
not only does their context-dependent 'self-confidences' improve in those
contexts, but their (context-independent2) 'self-esteem' begins to rise too.
That gives them more resilience, in contrast to self-confidence, which is
easily undermined. Another meta-outcome is the fact that we can help coaches
to more significant change because we can encourage them to greater levels
of stretch than they can conceive themselves, and another: that we can allow
learning by providing feedback on their thinking and behaviours which no-one
else has had the nerve to give them.

 

Thank you Doug

 

Angus

'Expert Coach' at Meta-Coaching

 

 

1. Hall, M. 2010 7+2 Keys to Becoming a World-Class Coach, Acuity, 1, 49-60,
ANLP, London. 

2. or rather, 'internal-dependence' is the context, not external.

3. Dilts, R. (2003) From Coach to Awakener, p. xiii., Meta Publications,
Capitola, CA.

 

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