Today’s guest post is from Patrick Ryan, leadership trainer and master coach. This is a great summary about why we would even care about using a coach approach in today’s world. Patrick shares how coaching fits into the emergent, congruent and profitable ways of doing business.
The world is currently facing a series of economic shocks that attest to the need for a new way.The models of past performance no longer work because we humans are in a situation that we have never been in before. That situation is the inter-relatedness of all our peoples, resources and systems at a global level like we have never seen before. Therefore it stands to reason that we must now find solutions that have never been tried before as well.
How can we possibly impact such large-scale dilemmas?
The answer rests in part in realizing that our smaller-scale dilemmas just might be mirroring the bigger picture. Our challenges in the workplace, our relationships with colleagues, our choices of how to behave and respond in daily situations become our arena for stepping into an ever-better modus operandi.
Coaching relationships provide the structures, intentions and even permissions to support people to move forward and transform old patterns into ways of being and doing that are more clean, clear, awake and workable.
We all have a contribution to make towards a more sustainable way of operating.That is a way that provides for the needs of today while honoring the harmony and balance of our future. That is a way that balances profit and shareholder value taken out with the impact of how that value was created. That is a way that considers the impact on others and the quality of the day-to-day experience while accomplishing mission statements as highly as it considers the result of the achievement itself.
Coaching skills and approaches are key to raising our experience to new levels of integrity, fulfilment and authenticity on both sides of the coaching relationship.
Awakened ways of doing business ask us to consider that every aspect of how we are operating our enterprises leaves all that are touched better off for the experience. It will take courage. It takes courage to say, “No!” to what has been practiced in the past when that practice is not life giving to all. It takes courage to risk your job by pointing out unsustainable practices in your organization; it takes courage to break out from groupthink when the group is up to selfish behavior. It takes courage to be a role model, a leader with vision, and to be willing to start by changing your way first, to lead by example.
When you are fortunate enough to work in an environment where coaching is increasingly accepted, understood and valued, then you have access to the support of coaching that activates the natural creativity and resourcefulness in you and in the people around you.
If you want to join this emerging way of being and operating, then you are not as alone as you might think.There are a great number of people that want this as well. You will learn how. You cannot know how yet as we are all learning together. You will be the teacher as much as the student.
In a coaching relationship, whether it is a formal arrangement or in less formal interactions, there is a phenomenon of co-learning that occurs. The coach, in the process of facilitating “coachees” to access their own wisdom, may see themselves in the people they are coaching. Therefore, the coach receives the benefit of witnessing the unfolding insights that may be applicable in their own circumstances as well. The focus, of course, is on the specific setting and context raised by the one receiving coaching, but the wisdom that is released is not limited in its gift.
We must all lean into each other now. This is the time for awakened leadership and collaboration. The only question you need to ask your Self to start is this: Are you willing?
If so, then start anywhere. If you are not yet willing, then at least know that it is just a matter of time because nature recognizes and nourishes what is good and needed, and eliminates what is not. It is not personal. And, coaching can offer you important support.
Patrick J. Ryan is the founder of www.AwakenedWisdom.com and is an Awakened Enterprise™ coach. He is the author of the bestseller, Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance and works around the globe with emerging leaders, communities and individuals interested in learning how to live and lead in an awakened way. He can be contacted at info@AwakenedWisdom.com.
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