1 1 1 1 coaching in challenging times eci evening event john whitmore november 2008
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Coaching in
Challenging Times
ECI Evening Event
John Whitmore
November 2008www.ihexcellence.com
www.performanceconsultants.com
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Despite all the environmentaltalk and action of 15 years,
nothing has improved.
Unless we change direction, we are liable to end up where we are headed.
All we have to do to ensure the devastation of all life
on earth is nothing.
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The Global Context
Consumerism is incompatible with Sustainability (more versus less)Quantitative technical advance is far ahead of Qualitative wisdom.Hierarchy is in decay, and must be superseded by Self-Responsibility.
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The Economic Context
Selfish Capitalism in English speaking countries, (US, Canada, UK, OZ, NZ) was more competitive and successful economically, until the 2008 crisis.Inclusive Capitalism in the rest of Europe has produced slower economic growth. However…Stress and Distress in the former runs at 23% with higher childhood obesity, educational failures, social breakdown. Stress and Distress in the latter stands at 11%. Oliver James
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“For millennia we lived on our income, ie what
we grew each year, until the Industrial
Revolution.
Then we discovered coal and oil. Thereafter
we metaphorically raided the bank and
extracted millions of years of irreplaceable
stored solar energy.
In our greed, we stole it from future
generations, and are polluting our own to the
point of extinction.”
John Whitmore 2006
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Failing Leadership
Traditional leadership is in decline
In Business, politics, religion, education +
Without a respected outer authority, standards and ethics are abandoned and liberalisation becomes licence.
Corporate crime runs out of control.
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Siemens, Southern Water, VW,
Christies, Sotherbys, Gucci,
Halliberton, Enron, WorldCom, S & L,
The majority of UK Banks & financial service companies
UK Supermarkets milking farmers
US Healthcare, Pharma & Insurers
Arms trade, Tobacco, Pornography
Corporate Corruption
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Today’s Business Drivers
1. Getting things done on time
2. Fear of failure
3. Short term financial goals
All three are FEAR reactions. If excellence is to be achieved, a change from a FEAR to a TRUST paradigm is essential.
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Growth Sustainability
Imposed Rules Inner Values
Fear Trust
Quantity Quality
Excess Sufficiency
Teaching Learning
In/dependence Interdependence
Success Service
Control Nature Natural Systems
Degradation Re-creation
OldOld NewNew
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Future Leadership
Two forms of leadership arise
New leaders with new qualities
Leadership spread among a wider constituency
New leadership qualities are evoked by self-development
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Values
Values emerge from within during personal development
Values that are not adopted from parents, social norms or religion
Values that are all inclusive
Ethical behaviour that reflects those values
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Whose Agenda?
Hierarchy of Loyalty or Values
• Universal
• National
• Corporate
• Team
• Family
• Self
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of NeedsSelf-Realisation
Self-actual.
Self-Belief
Status & Recognition
Social & Belonging
Security & Shelter
Basic Survival
1800 2000
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Graves’s Spiral Dynamics,
CTT’s Values Assessment system
Schutz’s Inclusion, Assertion, Affection
SRI’s Sustenance, Outer directed, Inner directed
Whitmore’s Need, Greed or Freedom
Team: Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing
and many more. All offer a similar sequence
Could Individual and Collective psycho-spiritual Evolution be the purpose of human life on Earth?
Social Evolution Models
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Seven Levels of Consciousness
Spiritual
Mental
Emotional
Physical
Transformation
Service
Making a Difference
Internal Cohesion
Esteem
Relationship
Survival
Human Needs Human Motivations
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MULTIPLICITY
‘There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognise that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another’
Somerset Maugham
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SUB PERSONALITIES
Are identifications with:
Roles (loving father, worker, boss)Job titles (accountant, doctor)Objects (house, car, collections)Personality states (grumpy, happy)Life Scripts (winner, victim)Cultural, racial, social, political groups
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4 PHASES OF HARMONISATION
1. Recognition
2. Acceptance
3. Collaboration
4. Integration
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DIS-IDENTIFICATION
A state of detachment:
emotionally and intellectually detachedthe freedom to choose, self regulationno longer a victim to circumstances
A place for self observationdispassionately observing one’s self a state of calmness, centeredness
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Sub-personalities
The ‘I’
The The SSelfelf
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Remedial because business is by and large dysfunctional.
Research enables businesses to do nothing while experts rediscover that which is blindingly obvious to all.
Reawakening because business is asleep. It is in denial of the big picture and of its roles and responsibilities therein.
Role of Psychology
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The Coach’s Role
Coaching is the only non-stigmatised profession whose primary product is self-responsibility.Coaching is no more a cottage industry. Staying small is ego driven false humility. Coaches have a responsibility to rise to the challenges, opportunities and urgent needs, that our global crisis presents.