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CoachingOurselves
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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Social Learning for Management Development (on a shoestring!)
In this article, Executive Director Phil LeNir discusses common weaknesses in formal training programs within organizations. He also relays a few suggestions of his own on how to improve and strengthen the learning and development process.
Spread the word...
Having trouble explaining to others our novel management development approach? Let us do it for you. If you are interested in introducing the concept of CoachingOurselves to someone in your own company, a friend, or an acquaintance download this one-page introduction.
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.
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.
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 CoachingOurselves had on the participating managers as individuals and as a group. Phil answers listeners questions regarding details of CoachingOurselves.
“Ba” For Management Development
An excellent blog entry where Tom Gram relates “ba” (knowledge creation) with CoachingOurselves and discusses how it is “firmly rooted in the informal end of the learning continuum”.
Video: Phil LeNir and Karl Moore talking management on the Globe and Mail
Phil LeNir, Executive Director of CoachingOurselves, talks management with Professor Karl Moore for the Globe and Mail about “Making the cultural connection”.
Article Professor Jonathan Gosling: “Biz Schools Are Too Much Like Banks”
Read this article by Professor Jonathan Gosling about how to connect knowledge to practice within business schools.
Video: Henry Mintzberg introducing CoachingOurselves to audience at a tradeshow in Japan
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.
Professor Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg on Harvard Business Ideacast
Listen to Henry Mintzberg’s Ideacast interview about “Rethinking the MBA”
Fast Company Article About Henry Mintzberg’s Ideacast
Check out this article by Fast Company about Mintzberg’s Ideacast titled “MBA Program Trashed on Harvard Business Podcast”
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.
Henry Mintzberg’s Facebook Fan Club
Check out Henry Mintzberg’s fan club on facebook for exciting updates on Henry!
Discussing the Social Sector: An Online Financial Times Debate with Henry Mintzberg
Read this Financial Times management blog for the debate between Colin Mayer and Henry Mintzberg about shareholder value.
Article: Professor Henry Mintzberg on “America’s monumental failure of management”
Read Professor Henry Mintzberg’s article about “America’s monumental failure of management” as he discusses the financial crisis as being a crisis of management
Henry Mintzberg's Website
Visit Henry Mintzberg's Website to learn more about him, his books, articles, interviews, and about the four programs for practicing managers that he has developed with colleagues.
Informal Learning
BLOG: An informal way to learn about marketing!
Read the blog of our Marketing Associate, Brenna, to learn more about her experiences with her job and with CoachingOurselves.
Informal Learning Podcast by ASTD
Listen to this “Informal Learning Podcast from ASTD” about their study conducted on informal learning. This podcast features Aparna Nancherla, associate editor for T+D magazine, interviewing CEO Kevin Oakes “about the results of this informal learning study as well as his insights on the subject”.
Should organizations spend money on informal learning activities?
Read this blog about “Leveraging the Power of Informal Learning” for an answer.
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.
Article: Jay Cross and Clark Quinn: “Becoming a Chief Meta-Learning Officer”
Jay Cross and Clark Quinn discuss the role of training in organizations in the CLO.
Blog: Tom Gram on the 7 Informal Learning Services for the Training Function
Tom Gram writes about the role of informal learning in the workplace and developing services for “managers and teams to take advantage of to harness informal learning”.
Blog: Tom Kelly on “Measuring Informal Learning”
Tom Kelly writes about informal training “rapidly overtaking ‘formal’ training in its importance to the learner community”.
Blog: Catherine Lombardozzi on “Breathing life into an informal learning strategy”
Catherine Lombardozzi writes about adding the human element to the informal learning process. It is through building a culture within organizations that we breathe life into our informal learning strategies.
Marcia Conners: “Introducing Informal Learning”
Marcia Conners writes about introducing informal learning to the workplace in order for organizations to understand the process so it can be successfully fostered and encouraged.
Webinar on Social and Informal Learning
“Join internationally recognized futurist Elliott Masie and i4cp’s VP of Research Jay Jamrog as they examine this research (the ASTD’s i4cp’s survey) and provide solutions on how to drive productivity and performance by implementing effective social and informal learning strategies.”
Blog: Mark Vickers on Informal and Inexpensive: Learning’s New Territory
Mark Vickers discusses informal learning as a cost-effective strategy to increase organizational performance, but explains that there is a “real art to using these techniques well”. This is where CoachingOurselves can help.
Article Jay Cross: “Get Out of the Training Business”
Read this article by Jay Cross where he discusses how companies should be focusing on “peer-to-peer, self-service learning” throughout the economic downturn. Training staff need to “become mentors, coaches and facilitators” because our focus should be shifted “from training to performance”. Jay Cross describes a format similar to that of CoachingOurselves.
Action Reflection Learning Book
The Action Reflection Learning process is similar to that of CoachingOurselves as it forces participants to reflect back on their experiences, discuss, and learn from them.
Phil Lenir
Phil LeNir and Karl Moore on frugal marketing
Watch this new video where Executive Director Phil LeNir discusses frugal marketing in today's business climate with Karl Moore on the Globe and Mail's Talking Management.
Phil LeNir and Karl Moore on going from a manager to the C-Suite
Watch this new video with Phil LeNir and Karl Moore where they discuss going from a manager to being in the C-suite for one of the four videos from the Globe and Mail's Talking Management series that investigates the role managers are playing and the structure of their life in the 21st century.
Phil LeNir on going from a Manager to a Leader
Watch this new video with Phil LeNir and Karl Moore where they discuss going from a manager to a leader in one of the four videos from the Globe and Mail's Talking Management series that investigates the role of a manager and the typical structure of a mangers' career in the 21st century.
Phil LeNir on Leadership vs. Management
Watch this two-part video that features Phil LeNir with Karl Moore on the Globe and Mail's Talking Management series where they discuss the differences between leadership and management.
