NEW VIDEO: How Does CoachingOurselves Work?
This new video provides a short introduction to the philosophy behind CoachingOurselves and offers tips on how to make it successful. CoachingOurselves programs provide a structured opportunity to discuss the real work of managing by introducing management concepts from leading scholars into the workplace in a practical manner.
To ensure successful CoachingOurselves programs, participants should come to sessions with a sense of curiosity about management, a willingness to reflect on their experiences and a desire to discover how much they really know. Participants are encouraged to challenge the ideas of management thinkers and to engage in critical thinking with their peers.
The underlying framework used in this innovative management development program is based on Professor Henry Mintzberg's idea that there are five ways to approach the world as managers:
Reflective: Stepping back to learn from our experience
Action: The drive to make things happen, to change things
Analytical: As you act and then reflect, you begin to analyze
Collaborative: The need to create valuable and novel things with others
Worldly: Understanding the world from others point of view, a practical wisdom
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Professor Henry Mintzberg on MIT World
If you are looking for more background on Henry Mintzberg and his philosophy of management development, listen to this interview by Richard Semler (Chief Executive of Semco in Brazil and teacher at MIT). Henry outlines his views on the problems with the traditional classroom approach to management development. He contrasts this with being engaged in a discovery process which draws on the experiences managers are living every
day.
Understanding CoachingOurselves
How does CoachingOurselves compare to typical management development options, such as multi-day offsite training, MBAs, or e-learning? Download this comparison matrix for a better understanding of our approach.
Phil LeNir on HR.com webcast
Listen to Phil LeNir’s webcast interview with David Creelman on HR.com. Phil relates the story of how CoachingOurselves developed as the best response to organizational challenges he and his managers in a high-tech firm were facing. He talks about Professor Henry Mintzberg’s involvement and expert guidance in helping create this novel solution to management development and how the best format evolved over time. David and Phil discuss the importance of connecting new ideas to the managers’ realities and the impact Coaching Ourselves had on the participating managers as individuals and as a group. Phil answers listeners’ questions regarding details of CoachingOurselves.
Professor Jonathan Gosling: “Developing Leaders”
Read Jonathan’s thought provoking article “Developing Leaders” where he addresses the issue, “How can business school material be most relevant?” He describes various innovative formats and that of CoachingOurselves: where the conceptual frameworks of business professors meets with the specific issues of practitioners. Here we have a 'blending' of experience to produce new insights, understanding, and commitments to action.
Jonathan Gosling is Professor and Director of the Centre for Leadership Studies at Exeter University and one of the founders of CoachingOurselves.
YouTube Video: Henry Mintzberg talks with Karl Moore
Henry outlines how he has developed a variety of programs where managers learn from each others’ experiences and how CO carries this approach to its natural conclusion. Listen to why he feels CoachingOurselves is the “most natural form of management development” and how companies are effectively using it to spur change.
People Signals Blog
Check out the People Signals blog by Marlin Watling where he describes the new generation of learning: open, collaborative, and bottom-up, innovative examples of these approaches, and where CoachingOurselves fits in. Since first hearing about CoachingOurselves, Marlin has successfully been running various CO groups at his own company, SAP , Germany.
