Very small and often invisible adjustments to a system can radically redirect its entire course. As coaches, we know this and 
Arthur Costa and Robert Garmston knew this in the 1980′s when they redefined the supervision of educators as “cognitive coaching”. The three goals of Cognitive Coaching are:
- Trust, an assured reliance on the character, ability, or srength of someone or something
- Learning, the engagement and transformation of mental processes and perceptions
- Holonomy,which represents individual autonomy while working interdependently with others (collaboration).
The message for coaches here is that their work mediates individual growth toward the ‘five states of mind”: efficacy, flexibility, craftsmanship, consciousness, and interdependence.
What is fascinating in this book is that it references the work of Evered and Selman, “Coaching and the Art of Management”, published in Organizational Dynamics in Augumn 1989. If you recall, Jim Selman was involved with Transformational Technologies, the business division Werner Erhard & Associates, and this article was the outcome of a conversation with Werner Erhard, John Wooden, Red Auerbach, George Allen and Jim Selman about the principles of coaching that cross all disciplines.
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