Coaching & Organizations

CCEU Key:  CC = core competencies / PD = personal development / BD = business development & marketing / OT = other tools & skills

Change Doesn’t Work – Organizations Need to Be Transformed: What is the Role of Coaching?
Saturday, November 15 - 11 am - 12:30 pm / 11:00 - 12:30
Tor Eneroth (Sweden) - View Bio
Chris Venn (Canada) - View Bio
Yuki Watanabe (Japan) - View Bio
Hartmut Wiehle (Germany) - View Bio
CCEU:  1.5 CC

Most major change initiatives are not sustainable. Can coaching do better?  While the increasingly complex and global business world demands rapid change, research from key consultancies suggests that most major organizational change initiatives lack sustainable results. A single focus on changing processes, structures and systems (different ways of “doing”) is not enough. The major aspect that needs to be considered to transform organizations is the human element.

From coaching we know that only the change of a person’s beliefs, perspectives and basic assumptions, (Different ways of “Being” = Transformation), create sustainable new behaviors and different results. By considering an organization as a “living entity”, with a culture or personality (values, beliefs and related behaviors), principles of individual transformation can be applied to change initiatives because organizations don’t transform – people do. 

This panel of OD and organizational culture specialists, change consultants and coaches will discuss:

• Why the “Cultural Capital” of an organization is the new frontier of “competitive advantage”;
• What organizational beliefs are and how they are developed;
• Why culture is always stronger than strategy;
• The roles individual and team coaching play and what the key coaching goals are;
• How coaching operates as part of a system, together with OD and consulting tools and processes; and
• Why senior executives (beliefs/values?) are the key success factor for a successful transformation initiative.

The Coaching Industry, Fads or Trends?
Thursday, November 13 - 3:45 - 5:15 pm / 15:45 - 17:15
Marc Johnstone with Shirlaw's Coaching has replaced Darren Shirlaw (USA) - View Bio
CCEU:  .25 CC / 1.25 BD

This session will address the major forseen trends for the organizations of tomorrow and ways the coaching business can evolve in this environment.
 
An informative speaker, Darren Shirlaw entered the coaching profession from the fund management industry; therefore, he takes a radically different perspective on coaching, focusing on the opportunities of coaching as an industry sector. 

In this session Shirlaw will apply trend analysis used from his old days in the Fund sector to demonstrate how the coaching industry will evolve over the next four years and the implications this will have on the businesses of coaches. 

The focus of this session will be:

• Review the development of the coaching industry against other industry cycles;
• Review some key “coaching assumptions” against these trends;
• Review the need for the coaching industry product to evolve/change to keep pace with Industry/Economic shifts; and 
• Demonstrate how coaches will change their pricing and business models over the next four years to align with these trends.

Collective Intuitive Intelligence - A New Gateway to Organizational Success

Part 1 – Experience and Explore
Thursday, November 13 - 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m./ 11:00 - 12:30
Sabine Henrichfreise, MCC (Germany/France) View Bio
Francis Cholle (France/USA) View Bio
CCEU:  1.5 CC

In today's changing and challenging business environment, current methodologies to generate organizational success may no longer be sufficient to create impactful and sustainable change. As the business world and our world as a whole face a new era of complexity, the key factors to create success may need to be revisited and revised and the role of the coach along with them.  

In this 1st part of the 3 hours workshop, facilitated by Sabine Henrichfreise and Francis Cholle, experts in Collective and Intuitive Intelligence, participants will experience Collective Intuitive Intelligence, explore some of its fundamental principles and face a first set of challenging questions such as:

• Which organizational dilemmas are both clients and coaches ignoring and how does that impact the emergence of CII?
• Is Collective Intuitive Intelligence a permanent state, a process, or a mindset?
• Is Collective Intuitive Intelligence necessary for organizational success today and if so, how do we invite it powerfully forward as organizational coaches?
• In which way do we, internal and external coaches, have to revisit our mission and our way of doing coaching in the light of CII?

If you are interested in testing your own theories and assumptions in these important areas and perhaps discovering new ways to approach the coaching of organizations and their leaders, we invite your attendance and participation. When we as coaches start to develop our capacity of thinking, learning and creating our future collectively, we may all move towards more sustainable systems of organization success.

And if you want to become an active agent of Collective Intuitive Intelligence, join us for the 2nd part and recruit a new fellow coach or colleague…

Part 2 – One Step Beyond
Thursday, November 13 - 2 - 3:30 p.m./ 14:00 - 15:30
Sabine Henrichfreise, MCC (Germany/France) View Bio
Tom Hurley (USA) - View Bio
Francis Cholle (France/USA) View Bio
CCEU:  1.5 CC

In the 2nd part of this workshop, facilitated by Sabine Henrichfreise and Tom Hurley, we will not only experience how a field of Collective Intuitive Intelligence, once created, can be hold through time and thus easily be reactivated to integrate newcomers. But we will also explore another core question of Collective Intuitive Intelligence which is the question of “Collective Pattern Reprogramming” and the “Reprogramming CODE”.

The living design of the workshop will generate a variety of meaningful conversations and the possibility of permanent re-connecting around a 2nd set of challenging questions:

• What is Collective Pattern Reprogramming and what kind of patterns have to be reprogrammed?
• What is the CODE we have to create which reprograms organizational collective patterns of interaction in the light of CII?
• What do we have to change in the way we coach our clients in order to help our clients to create, implement and activate the CODE?
• What are some of the key assumptions we have to let go as coaches in order to help our clients to create the conditions for CII to emerge.

In deepening our exploration into the field of Collective Intuitive Intelligence, we may all (re)discover the deep change we can bring to the world when coaching organizations. To benefit from this workshop, invite yourself to enter a field where the control of results is replaced by guidance in the process, expertise by tacit knowledge and the evidence of the known by the emergence of the new and accept to leave the workshop with a new set of challenging questions, different perspectives, and a variety of directions for collective exploration and thinking.

Getting Past the Impasse!
Saturday, Nov. 15 - 3:45 - 5:15 pm / 15:45 - 17:15
Michèle Morneau, M.A., MCC (Canada) - View Bio
CCEU:  .75 CC/ .75 OT

Cette séance se déroulera en français avec traduction simultanée en anglais (This session will be presented in French with live English Interpretation)

Have you ever experienced "stuck" situations in teams where there was significant resistance? Have you ever had to deal with teams where behaviors prevent any form of collaboration? Have you ever had to face attitudes of sabotage, impeding progress or performance within a team? Have you ever encountered teams where decision-making and action-taking never occur? What could you do to help them move past that impasse?

The proposed innovative approach has proven to be successful in many organizations. According to feedback from the teams that undertook this approach, it provided a positive experience, which gave them confidence that they could succeed in achieving a task together. They felt a renewed motivation to collaborate, a better working atmosphere and a more open and fluid communication. Finally, they managed to align themselves on concrete goals and to agree on a common project.

And what if they were all musicians in the same orchestra?
Engaging each participant to be a musical instrument, to create a band and prepare for a collective performance, Morneau will lead you through a creative and playful journey where you will unleash your own team potential.

This session will invite you to challenge your assumptions about coaching teams and stretch your limits. This different circulation of energy will bring participants' alignment with their inner intuition and leverage the creation of new team coaching strategies.