Outward and Broader – Two Things We Do

In our last post we reflected on our experience at the OD Network conference in Seattle in October.  One of the key reflections was that we think it would be of value for OD practitioners to go outward and broader in their efforts to improve performance in the work they do to offset the much [...]

Bringing Coaching to the Masses – Without Developing Masses of Coaches

The most common model of coaching today is one where there is a coach and a coachee; two different individuals with differing roles within the coaching interaction.  A quick Google search of the phrase ‘executive coaching’ produced over 1,700,000 links so it is safe to say that coaching using this model, is alive and well.  [...]

The Challenge of Executive Coaching – Individual Change and Social Response

A primary informing model of one-on-one executive coaching is psychoanalytic.  The couch might have disappeared but the model remains.  One individual there to change and the other individual there to assist in that change.  When the individual changes, success is assumed.  The challenge is that success is only really determined when those changes are taken [...]