SeattleCoach! "Connection. Curiosity. Challenge."
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Photo by Mark Meadows
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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. Leaders in great NW companies 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 some of those great companies grow too, as they've figured out ways to invest in the human and social assets--the growth mindset--required of great companies. |
We have three options for developing more internal Coaching Leaders in 2019
SeattleCoach partners with some great companies. With each one, we customize our "Coaching for Leaders" training and development.
If you are a manager who is ready to amplify leadership coaching in your organization, one of these programs might fit:
- Introduction to Coaching for Leaders. A one-day workshop, taught by Patty Burgin, (4-6 hours).
- Coaching for Leaders, aka, CFL. Thirty-five seasoned leaders + four quarterly off-sites + customized content + on-going peer groups = a little magic.
- Our Full SeattleCoach Professional Credentialing Program (a customized schedule, 75 hours; each graduate qualifies for international credentialing). We launch two Cohorts in Seattle each Fall, and two more each Spring. For info on how to apply, please contact Patty Burgin directly.
If your company is intentional about cultivating a coaching culture and a growth mindset, read, "What Happens When Leaders Learn to Coach?" Then be in touch.
The Coaching Leader's Arena
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You know how a great driver in a great car shifts smoothly through the gears--hitting the right one for the right conditions at the right moment? That's how we see the Arena in which great leaders operate every day--in brief conversations, in meetings with individuals, groups and teams and in full coaching sessions. Most leaders have a quadrant that is their "default" gear. Then, as they find their coaching gear (that "northeast" quadrant), they tend to become better drivers overall. And that surrounding blue circle? Think of that as the calm and authoritative presence of a great coaching leader. It's foundational to whatever "gear" he or she selects in the Coaching Leader’s Arena. The orange circle is trickier. It represents your organization's culture. And it might have a default like you do. Is it willing to learn too? This is what "Coaching for Leaders" is all about. |
These are our areas of focus:
- Developing a coaching culture in which employees become people of greater substance, capacity, engagement and confidence.
- The neuroscience of how human brains organize to engage with others and to metabolize change,
- The personal presence and subsequent influence of each coaching leader (no blaming, shaming or reactivity required),
- The ability to recognize "coaching moments" with individuals, groups and teams and then,
- Partnering on actionable experiments each time we meet, and always,
- Some fun.
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Click on the photo to the right to listen to an interview with Patty's pal & frequent collaborator, Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules. The SeattleCoach faculty team knows what great coaching looks like, when to use it and how it works. Dr. Medina brings a steady flow of research about why brains like it. |
Patty presenting with pal Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules.
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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. The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias. Dolly Chugh. |
- To learn more about the process of coach training and development with SeattleCoach, click here
- Read the SeattleCoach white paper, "What Happens When Leaders Learn to Coach?"
- Click here for a glimpse of how we see the difference between mentoring and coaching.
- And to get your research fix, every year the International Coach Federation (ICF) does a project with the Human Capital Institute about the impact of coaching on employee engagement, Building a Coaching Culture.
- From HBR: How Microsoft Uses a Growth Mindset to Develop Leaders.
Why we ask coaching leaders to put away their devices while we meet: Simon Sinek sums it up.
A crucial resource for leaders and their teams (with thanks to The Table Group): This is our favorite team-meeting strategy. - How to Develop a "Self-Authoring Mind." Dr. Robert Kegan.
- And for coaches at Microsoft who decide to earn international certification with the ICF, click here to download a spreadsheet.
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Patty to leaders as they completed a "Coaching for Leaders" Program
"Do you think your companyh will make more money, have more fun and do more good because you guys have invested this time in becoming coaching leaders?" (They all spoke at once):
(Then someone dropped a mic.) |
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"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 |
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