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On April 28, the whole SeattleCoach Tribe will meet at the College Club for our Annual Summit. This year we will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of SeattleCoach with special guest, John Medina, the NYT best-selling author of Brain Rules.
And let me know if you decide to take me up on my challenge to put together your own one-hour "Intro to Coaching Leadership." Contact me, and I'll get you a stack of those laminated Play Cards to use (along with your own growing expertise and experience). |
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My name is Patricia Burgin and I'm a leadership and communication coach for talented people and their teams. And I develop some of them to be uniquely skilled coaching leaders.
Microsoft leaders have been a part of our internationally credentialed coach training and development program since our very beginning in 2008 (we'd be happy to regale you with the whole story, just ask). And as we've grown, I've watched you guys grow too, as you've figured out ways to invest in the human and social assets--the growth mindset--required of great companies. And with the introduction of your Leadership Principles, I believe this might be a special moment in the life of your company. |
The September "Deeper Dive:"
Resetting (your way) as a coaching leader |
The October "Deeper Dive:"
Brain-friendly feedback + how you're talking about your development as a coaching leader |
The November "Deeper Dive:"
Your 25-word purpose statement |
The December "Deeper Dive:"
Getting ready for your "Next-Steps Presentation" |
The following links are to tools to which we'll refer along the way. Each one can be printed and/or customized. |
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A few favorites: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Carol Dweck. An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization. Robert Kegan Immunity to Change. Robert Kegan. Brain Rules. John Medina. |
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In June 2017, Jennifer and Patty design and launch a shorter course: Coaching for Leaders (CFL1) for 24 MCB leaders. (We've just wrapped this up, and CFL2 will launch in March, 2018.)
And along the way, Patty continues to host additional Intro workshops for DX, CCG, M&O, OEM and Enterprise Marketing. As we continue to assess best practices for equipping coaching leaders at Microsoft, we believe that this is a solid menu for GMs to consider:
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Patty, to participants in the Pilot Microsoft-SeattleCoach Cohort: "Do you think Microsoft will make more money, have more fun and do more good because you all have invested this time in becoming coaching leaders?" Their (vigorous) responses: "We'll listen better and take better risks. We'll ask better questions and be more innovative. We'll course-correct faster. We'll argue about the right things, but more kindly. We'll probably stay around longer." |
"Coaching has a proven impact: add coaching to an initiative and people will focus on that initiative more. Add coaching to training and people learn more, up to 6 times as much in some cases. Coaches are like midwives for change: they know when change is coming, when it’s here, when it needs a nudge, and when it’s happening too fast. As change catalysts, coaches assist with managing the speed of change and smooth transition through change. With our understanding of how the brain works - there is an inbuilt resistance to change, and minimising the stress response, and error detection of the amygdala through actions like naming and normalising – we can make this process less painful. Change can be deeply challenging and emotional change required in organizational transition requires hardwiring of new learning through insight and action. Coaches are the perfect people to have around to facilitate this process." David Rock, Driving Organizational Change with Internal Coaching Programs |