Europe coaching trends
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
A colleague forwarded a link to this short article on the latest trends in coaching emerging from Europe. Interesting to note that coaching over the phone is growing in popularity and that coaching is seen to ensure sustainability of training, and hence being integrated into seminars.
New Coaching Trends - by Ralf Borlinghaus of Bora Consulting
On March 13 2009 I was invited to join the first Coaching Day of Deutsche Bahn AG in Berlin. About 30 internal Management Developers and external coaches met in order to get to know each other and to share experiences. As two main topics two impulse lectures were held about New Coaching Trends in general and TeleCoaching as Paradigm Shift in particular - the latter provided by BORA.Later on these inputs were discussed and amended in a workshop under the label Coaching 2.0. The defined theses seem to be so interesting and worth to be summarized and reported to you:
- Management and administration of coaching-services will be more and more outsourced to globally operating external service provider.
- Clients' professional expectations in terms of education and experience of employed coaches will increase.
- Coaching will be more and more regarded as personal incentive to support once personal development and success instead of being a secret operation.
- Global operating networks will have clear competitive advantage compared to single operating coaches.
- In a flexible and decentralized working environment the phone is going to get the status of main coaching infrastructure.
- The confusing and unstructured coaching market will be consolidated. To enter the market will be more difficult for new coaches.
- Seminars and Coaching will be connected to new training formats. Integration of coaching sessions in seminars ensures sustainability.
- Due to permanent internal change processes there will be an increased need for team coaching.
- Coaching will become an area of investment even in times of crises in order to strengthen leaders' coping capabilities.
- In order to secure or to improve their performance level more and more employees will be ready to buy coaching services with private money in the future.
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The Secret to Resilience
Friday, March 20, 2009
"Life is difficult."
That's the opening paragraph in the book "The Road Less Travelled" by M. Scott Peck.
The second paragraph starts:
This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult - once we truly understand and accept it - then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.Yet even if this fact no longer matters, it is still a fact- that life can be very difficult at times. One resource that is most useful to us is our ability to be resilient, our ability to bounce back after a difficult patch and keep living our life to the full. And a great thing about resilience is that it can be developed and cultivated.
One of the key aspects of resilience is ego-strength, which is our ability to face reality as it is. This is when we can accept what is- just accept that this is the current status of our life, without necessarily liking it, just acknowledging that this is how it is right now. When we have a strong ego strength, we are more able to take effective actions and handle what life throws at us.
We also need to develop an optimistic frame of mind. This is not just positive thinking. It's more the opposite of "learned helplessness", a concept that Martin Seligman developed. When a person has learned to be helpless, they usually see the difficulty in life as personal (it becomes a problem about them themselves), pervasive in space (it affects everything in their life) and permanent in time (it is unchangeable and insurmountable). A resilient person, on the other hand, has developed the optimistic way of looking at things, in that they can distinguish the difficulty as being external in source (as in about "that", not about "me"), temporary and happening now, and specific to a particular context.
With this optimistic frame of mind, and remembering to keep our self esteem unconditional and in tact, we are more able to not take things personally. This, together with stepping back to get a larger perspective, helps us to bounce back after a set back.
Another component is our trust in and ownership of our abilities. We have four ways, powers or abilities in which we can respond to something. These are our thoughts, our feelings, our words and how we language something, and our ability to take action. When we understand that it is within our control to give an event meaning (through our ability to think and language something), we can then choose what meaning to give to the situation, so that it can lead us to take effective action. This leaves us in a place of feeling in control and at choice. And it's much easier to bounce back when we feel we have the ability and choice to do so.
In a nutshell then, being resilient involves facing the set back and accepting the loss or hurt involved. It includes working through the coping process, by applying an optimistic frame of mind to it, stubbornly refusing to make it personal, and getting some perspective by seeing it in the greater scheme of things. It then also involves the come back- where you remember what is within your control, and give the setback a meaning that allows you to take action and bounce back.
And with that secret to resilience in your tool kit for life, the difficulties of life need not keep you down.
To you being resilient,
Telana
Contact Telana Simpson, Personal and Communication Coach, to be coached to increasing your resilience.
Labels: ego-strength, learned helplessness, M. Scott Peck, Martin Seligman, optimistic, resilience
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posted by Telana @ 1:35 pm,
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Stress and Social Status
Inner Coaching is working with the Energy modality of BodyTalk to get results that are more sustainable and impact more areas of clients' lives.
Andrea Carter, a CBI & MindScape Instructor from Calgary, Canada talks about how our social status is connected to stress levels. Mindscape is a course that is part of the BodyTalk System, and is a compilation of meditation, martial arts theory and psychology.
Stress and Social Status: The connection is astounding!
By Andrea Carter
It is a known fact that animals in the wild use hormones called adrenaline and glucocorticoids in order to survive. Humans also have these same hormones, although usually not in as high a dosage because we don’t live in the wild... or do we?
Current research is finding that humans now appear to have the same level of these hormones circulating through their systems, (the same amounts as animals do when attacking or fleeing from being attacked), on a regular basis. When these hormones are this high within a human's body, they will shut down all other systems (particularly the immune system, reproductive system, and digestive system), allowing the body to become vulnerable to illness and disease.
Studies began over 22 years ago with Dr. Robert Salpolsky from Stanford University. It began with the interest in social behavior of baboons, and what was found was that baboons are much like humans. There is always a ranking of who is the leader with baboons, (much like how we operate at work – president, senior staff, intermediate staff and entry level staff), and this ranking in baboons determines who is able to mate, attack, undermine, and lead. Yet what was completely unexpected was the blood work from the baboons of the highest rankings showed the least amount of stress hormones within the blood stream, and the lower the ranking got (our level of entry level staffing), the higher the stress hormones rose.
Prof. Sir Michael Marmot took these findings and then applied them to a study in the UK, performed with over 28,000 participants all within the British Civil Service, (the reason this is noteworthy is because all of these people would have the same access to health care and are in the same field; the only thing that changed is their ranking within the Service). What was also incredible was that the results from this study matched the previous one! The higher one ranked within the Civil Service, the lower the amount of stress hormones found. The lower one ranked in the British Civil Service, the higher the amount of stress hormones discovered. The other amazing finding was that those who were the lowest on the hierarchical ladder were also the ones who had the highest risk of heart disease, obesity, disease, infertility, ulcers, and a decreased length of life.
Ulcers were also at one point mainstreamed to be medically correlated to stress. In the mid 90's Australian researchers found a bacteria that was directly correlated to ulcer growth, discrediting the original correlation with stress. Recently it has been found that 2/3 of the world's population has the same bacteria at all times, yet only a small grouping of this population have ulcers. So why do people get ulcers? Research revealed that when stressed, our bodies start shutting down all nonessential systems including our immune systems. When the immune system is lowered, our stomach bacteria runs wild!Ultimately stress is what wipes your body's ability to repair itself, lowering the ability for other systems to functions at their natural capacity. Interestingly, the other factor from the initial two studies was one's perception of how they ranked in the hierarchy. The common perception was that the lower one ranked, the more the individual had to think about, worry about, and stress over. In having more issues to think about, one's ability to focus on the important aspects in life, (such as family, passions, health), were diminished and replaced with mundane disorderly thought patterns. These thought patterns then create an overwhelming sense of a lack of control, thereby increasing stress levels. Once these stress levels are reached, the body begins the innate cycle of shutting down the other systems, focusing on survival.
The key to our health in the future is to understand how to reduce stress, and realign these systems that have been shut down. That's where BodyTalk comes in...
Labels: Andrea Carter, BodyTalk, stress
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