“Problems cannot be solved with the same mindset that created them.”
- Albert Einstein
As humans, we have a strong tendency to habituate our thought patterns. We take how we think for granted. We may even assume that the way we personally think is the way all thinking is done. As coaches, by focusing on the thinking patterns and processes that clients reveal when they talk to us, we can help them gain insight into their own thinking, supporting them to identify different thinking approaches that may be more useful.
In this lab we will look through a number of thinking ‘goggles’ and explore how focus on clients’ deeper thought processes can help them achieve truly transformational change.
Together, we’ll take a dip in the following bracing waters (wetsuits optional):
- Distinguishing between the different selves our clients inhabit: the ‘doing self’ and the ‘being self’. We’ll major on the latter, concerned as it is with values, beliefs, identity and purpose.
- Finding opportunities to touch on transformation within the more transactional and well-known frameworks, principles, and models we use (e.g. self-limiting beliefs tools).
- Diving deeper still we will describe some road-tested approaches to coaching purely around thinking process.
You can expect:
- To review several distinctive coaching approaches that work on how the client is thinking.
- Live coaching demonstrations using fresh technique.
- To consider the coach’s ‘process intervention strategies’, to interrogate the methods and assess their impact.
- To reflect - with others in our friendly lab community, how you might take some of the learning into your own coaching.
Our Facilitator:
MF Founder Phil Hayes began his leadership development practice in the late 1980’s, running team building programmes at the Brathay Trust. Since 2000 he has trained a generation of coaches, and has coached hundreds of senior leaders and their teams across virtually all sectors. He has added to the coaching profession as a successful author, creating an accessible online coaching skills course for The Open University and by contributing to coaching conversations, speaking at conferences and in the media.
Phil’s coaching experience sits alongside over 35 years of leadership development practice, including a spell as Head of Management Training at the BBC. A selection of his senior clients include the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Dyson, NHS, BBC, Nissan, Saracens Rugby, Southampton FC, and Nutmeg Saving and Investment Ltd.
Phil has an MA in Management Learning, a Diploma in Psychodynamic counselling, he’s an NLP Master Practitioner and is an ILM qualified coach. As well as being a founder of Management Futures, he has previously served as MD and Chair.
Phil is a pragmatist when it comes to coaching. He believes theory should inform practice but not dictate it.
