About CoachingOurselves

Video: Henry Mintzberg talks to Karl Moore about CoachingOurselves (Part 1)

In this video, Henry Mintzberg describes the history behind CoachingOurselves and its connection to the International Masters Program in Practicing Management. He explains how CoachingOurselves expands on the philosophies of this program, bringing his theories to their natural conclusion. Listen to why he believes CoachingOurselves is a powerful management development tool and how companies are using it to effectively spur change.

Video: Henry Mintzberg talks to Karl Moore about CoachingOurselves (Part 2)

Video: CoachingOurselves and the Five Mindsets

Jonathan Gosling provides a short introduction to the philosophies and concepts behind CoachingOurselves and includes tips for making it a success in your organization. He describes the five mindsets that underlie CoachingOurselves and materials that drive discussion and learning.

Webcast: Phil LeNir on HR.com

In Phil LeNir’s webcast interview with David Creelman on HR.com, he discusses the development and evolution of the CoachingOurselves format. He explains Professor Henry Mintzberg’s involvement and guidance in helping to create this novel solution to management development. David and Phil discuss the importance of connecting new ideas to the managers’ realities and the impact CoachingOurselves has had on the participating managers as individuals and as a group. Phil answers listeners’ questions regarding CoachingOurselves.

Video: Henry Mintzberg introduces CoachingOurselves at a tradeshow in Japan

Henry Mintzberg introduces CoachingOurselves to a Japanese conference. He points out Japan’s particular success with CoachingOurselves and the innovations of his Japanese colleagues that have proven useful to CoachingOurselves groups in North America.

Blog: Brenna’s Blog

Do you want to take a look behind CoachingOurselves? Our Marketing Associate Brenna Comacchio’s blog lends insight into CoachingOurselves, our marketing initiatives, and her experiences at her position.

Additional Information

CoachingOurselves Brochure

Download the CoachingOurselves brochure for more information on CoachingOurselves or to introduce our management solution to your company, team, or friend.

Interesting Articles Mentioning CoachingOurselves

Article: Business Schools are too much like Banks by Jonathan Gosling

In this article, Jonathan Gosling criticizes business schools for treating knowledge and learning as if it were a product, packaged for consumption and disconnected from practice. He stresses that practical knowledge and real learning comes from creative interchange and managerial practice. Gosling highlights the successes of organizations using CoachingOurselves that have learned through their experiences to become more engaged and creative managers.

Article: “Ba” For Management Development

In this blog entry, Tom Gram relates the Japanese concept of “Ba” to CoachingOurselves. “Ba” is a communal space that fosters knowledge through informal interaction. Gram considers CoachingOurselves a “Ba” management development solution that encourages collaboration, interaction, and continuous learning.

Article: CoachingOurselves: Business Learning 2.0

Marlin Watling believes that organizations spend large amounts of money on training programs with little return. He describes a new generation of learning: open, collaborative, and bottom-up, and provides examples of these approaches, including CoachingOurselves. Marlin has been successfully running various CO groups at his own company, SAP , Germany.

Professor Henry Mintzberg

Website: Henry Mintzberg

On Henry Mintzberg’s website, you can find more information on the four programs for practicing managers that he has developed with his colleagues, as well as recent papers, interviews, talks, and publications.

Article: From Management Development to Organization Development with IMpact

In this article, Henry Mintzberg discusses the problems with formal, classroom-based management training programs. He emphasizes a need for community and experienced focused learning and impact teams to extend learning back home and writes about how this philosophy forms the basis of his programs, including the IMPM, ALP, and CoachingOurselves.

Article: America’s Monumental Failure of Management

Henry Mintzberg believes that America’s economic downturn is a symptom of its underlying crisis of management. He cites Ivy League business schools as a major proponent to this problem for promoting a detached and analytical form of management that leads to disengaged managers looking for quick fixes.

Harvard Business Ideacast: Rethinking the MBA

Henry Mintzberg criticizes business schools for creating managers and leaders in a classroom. He argues that leadership is not something granted but rather earned through experience and people must dig in deep to become effective managers. He believes this detached form of management education has lead to a disconnected and dysfunctional form of management that ultimately has contributed to the economic crisis.

Video: Henry Mintzberg on MIT World

In this video, Henry Mintzberg is interviewed by Ricardo Semler, Chief Executive of Semco in Brazil and teacher at MIT, for MIT World. He outlines the problems with the traditional classroom approach to management development, contrasting science based learning with learning through a discovery process that draws on actual experiences.

Henry Mintzberg at HR 2010 World Congress

In a unique and exclusive in-depth interview with Stéphan Bureau, Professor Mintzberg has illustrated how leadership may be better viewed as stemming from communityship, and how this has been stimulated by a number of initiatives in management development that takes it to organization and social development, and back to self development.

Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada and co-founder of CoachingOurselves , an alternative form of management development for the organization that he calls "Natural Development". In these videos he has been interviewed at 13th World Human Resources Congress (Montreal, Quebec), September 27-29, 2010.

Click here to watch the videos on the HR.com web site.

Informal Learning

Article: Introducing Informal Learning

Marcia Corners gives a brief introduction into informal learning by contrasting it with other forms of learning. She includes tips for understanding the informal learning transpiring within your organization and provides resources to foster and encourage these opportunities.

Podcast: Informal Learning 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”.

Article: Developing Leaders for the Knowledge Economy by Jonathan Gosling

In this article, Jonathan Gosling addresses the issue of how to make business school materials most relevant to students. He emphasizes that students must apply their learning to transfer it into insights and capabilities and describes various innovative programs based around this concept, including CoachingOurselves.

Article: 7 Informal Learning Services for the Training Function

Tom Gram recognizes that informal learning is one of the most effective and fast growing trends in the workplace, but realizes that many people are finding it difficult to harness informal to benefit their organization. In this article, he describes 7 clear informal learning services that can impact organizational learning.

Article : Get Out of the Training Business

Jay Cross suggests a new direction for training development in the wake of the economic downturn that is similar to the CoachingOurselves format. He emphasizes that companies should focus their energies on “peer-to-peer, self-service learning” with a shift from “training to performance”.

Article: Leveraging the Power of Informal Learning

Research shows that informal activities contributes to over 80% of organizations’ learning, yet 80% of their learning and development budget is still spent on formal management training programs. In these tough financial times, this article calls for organizations to step outside the box and take advantage of these cost-effective informal learning programs that have proven to produce results

Phil LeNir

Video: Phil LeNir and Karl Moore on Going from Manager to Leader

This video is one of the four videos from the Globe and Mail’s Talking Management series that investigates the role of the manager and the typical structure of the manager’s career in the 21st Century. In this video Phil LeNir discusses with Karl Moore the role and characteristics of leaders, emphasizing that people at all levels should actively promote change and innovation to become leaders within their organizations.

Video: Phil LeNir on Leadership vs. Management (part 1)

This is part one of two from the Globe and Mail's Talking Management series that features Phil LeNir and Karl Moore discussing the differences between leadership and management. They believe managers have the opportunity to become leaders at all levels in the organization by moving beyond just achieving goals to developing change and making improvements.

Video: Phil LeNir on Leadership vs. Management (part 2)

This is part two of the Leadership vs. Management video from the Globe and Mail’s Talking Management series. In this video Phil LeNir and Karl Moore discuss the characteristics of an effective leader, championing authenticity and quiet, yet powerful leadership in the workplace.

Video: Phil LeNir and Karl Moore on Going from Manager to the C-Suit

Phil LeNir and Karl Moore discuss going from manager to the c-suite, elaborating on the lifestyles and sacrifices of people in these positions. They delve into the qualities and characteristics that make people suited for careers in the c-suite. This video is part of the Globe and Mail’s Talking Management series that investigates the manager’s role and the structure of their career in the 21st Century.

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