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Listen to the call below:
Tuesday, December 9th
Time: 1:00 – 2:00pm Eastern Time
Guest: David Peterson, Ph.D
Host: Mary Wayne Bush, Ed.D
Topic: Why is it so Easy to be a Good Coach and So Hard to be a Great Coach?
Join host Mary Wayne Bush, Ed.D and special guest David Peterson, Ph.D who will talk about the journey many coaches take on the road from being a novice to becoming a good coach, and from there, what it takes to become a great coach, and why that is often so difficult.
David will touch on the following topics to generate lively discussion:
* What differentiates great coaches from good coaches?
* How do you become a great coach?
* Four different types of coaching
During the call, David will weave in many other issues and hot topics in the field of coaching today — coaching competencies, certification, implications for research on coaching, etc.
About our special Guest: David is Senior Vice President at Personnel Decisions International, where he has been leader of PDI’s executive coaching services for almost 20 years, with responsibility for 200 coaches around the world. Based in San Francisco, his consulting work specializes in coaching for CEO’s and other senior executives in Global 100 companies, as well as helping organizations design their own coaching programs. His clients include many leading companies, such as Target, Hewlett Packard, Genentech, Federal Express, and Shell.
David is the author of two best-selling books that provide practical advice to help people develop themselves and coach others:
“Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development” (1995)
“Leader As Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others” (1996)
An expert on coaching, executive development, and leadership effectiveness, he has been quoted in Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Week, Time, and USA Today, and an upcoming issue of Harvard Business Review.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota specializing in both Industrial/Organizational and Counseling Psychology. His B.A. in linguistics and anthropology is from Bethel College in St. Paul, MN. He is a Fellow of the Society of Consulting Psychology and the American Psychological Association.
Learn more about David and his work at http://www.personneldecisions.com
About our host: Dr. Mary Wayne Bush is the Director of Research for The Foundation of Coaching and an internationally known leader in coaching-related research.
Her 2004 Doctoral Dissertation was featured in Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leadership, and she collaborated with Korn Ferry/A Lominger Company on an analysis of Global Media Perceptions of Coaching which was presented at The Conference Board Executive Coaching Conference and the International Academy of Management conference in 2008. Mary Wayne co-chaired the International Coaching Research Forum held in Cambridge MA in September, 2008, and was also the Lead Organizer for the International Coach Federation Research Symposium in 2005 in San Jose, CA.
Mary Wayne is an active member and speaker at many professional organizations, including the International Coach Federation (ICF), Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), Conference Board Executive Coaching Conference, the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Academy of Management (AOM), Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA), and the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
She is a contributor to the book, Diversity in Coaching (Kogan-Page, 2009) as well as co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Coaching and Mentoring (Oxford University Press), and has taught quality management courses for University of California, Santa Cruz Extension and is a former member of the coaching certification faculty at Cal State Long Beach. Mary Wayne holds a Master’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in Organizational Change from Pepperdine University. She has over twenty years experience as a corporate coach and organization development consultant.
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Great call! David mentioned the frequent lack of focus by “good” coaches on how to turn good ideas and intentions into actual results.
There is a wealth of research on how people turn goal intentions into results within the field of psychology. The research is not at all about pathology but about things like how to increase the likelihood of people exercising, following up on health check-ups, etc. I believe that coaching could benefit by looking at how to integrate this research into our theory and practice.
Things to look for are “implementation intentions” as well as the names Peter Gollwitzer and Gabrielle Oettingen. A number of papers are listed here:
http://de.scientificcommons.org/peter_m_gollwitzer
Here is a brief introduction to some of the concepts:
http://www3.niddk.nih.gov/fund/other/decision2008/Summaries/SheeranSummary.pdf
In a nutshell, one of the basic ideas is that by forming a more detailed plan of when and how we (or our clients) will do something (e.g., “when I go out to eat and the waiter lists the specials, I will only order a special if it sounds healthy, otherwise I’ll order a salad”) we increase the likelihood that we will follow through with an intention.
I’m curious about whether people have been exposed to any of this research and to other ideas about turning goals and intentions into action in your various studies and self-learning.