Learning
is one thing. Development is another. Have you ever gone
to an amazing training session and been excited to apply
what you learned back at the office? Then, by the following
Wednesday, in the midst of the usual pressures, you are
back to the old familiar you? You have the knowledge about
what you want to do, you have the motivation, but the change
is not natural and not embodied in you, no matter how much
will you muster. That's when you need
development to follow up your training.
Have
you ever worked with someone and asked them to do something
different and they haven't been able to do it? You show
them, you supervise them, you may even cajole them or threaten
consequences. Still no results. They are actually not yet
capable; they need some development.
In
the coaching approach that I and other Integral Coaches
® use, we help you actually grow so that you widen what
comes naturally to you, and get the results you are wanting.
We
work with three aspects that, according to Robert Kegan,
are essential for adults to develop.
1)
we help you recognize your own current way of being, which
is so natural to you it is almost unconscious. Once you
can recognize it, you have more choice about whether to
enact it.
2)
we inspire you towards another way of being that you can
embody to get better results, and we design a program to
help you get there, with goals, objectives and step by step
practice design.
3)
we help you build and widen your capabilities step by step
by giving you powerful practices to undertake each day so
that you cultivate greater strength where you need it.
This
leads to accelerated intentional development. Second and
third order change actually requires development on behalf
of everyone in the system to be powerfully implemented.