Blogg

2012-09-24
Marie Kaufmann

It’s time to get excited with conflict!

So totally uplifting to read professor Ralph Stacey’s blog on the paradox between conflict and harmony! And yet challenging. Yes, I share his view that our strive for and over-emphasis on harmony is leading us into sticky group interactions where real differencies in opionion or experience have no chance to come up and lead to new beginnings and true innovation! But since conflict is SO challenging to most of us, we need to work on our own relationship to conflict to become less challenged and more apt to lead through conflicts. Avoidance of conflict is not the solution. If you are inspired to go deeper in this topic – welcome to join our workshops on “Process leading and conflicts”. Take a look at our website to find out more.

Read Ralph Stacey’s blog here: http://complexityandmanagement.wordpress.com/

2012-06-27
Peter Spang

Coaching is like music

Some of my thoughts on coaching and the coaching relationship:

“To communicate is to enter the other, while watching ourselves carefully, to enter without taking possession of the other. To take possession of the other is to annul him, to prevent him from returning the gift. It is the refusal to accept his discrete word; it is to violate his inner home without allowing him to enter ours; it is the arrogance of someone who believes himself to be an entirely independent and self-sufficient force and refuses to receive. The univocal gift, without reciprocity, is not communication, but violation.”

The words from M.F. Sciacca, the great Italian philosopher (1908-1975), bring alive some of the essential qualities of a coaching relationship. As a coach, I am a compassionate co-inquirer, someone who not only has knowledge and methods, but also befriends the coachee.

Henry Mintzberg, a Canadian management professor and author, points in the direction that while coaching is a craft that can be taught and trained, it is also something of an art. Art requires creativity, passion and fantasy, and cannot be fully scientifically measured or assessed. In this light good coaching, or good leadership, can be compared with good music: its full quality only gets revealed while listening to it, not while analysing it.

To skilfully develop a coaching relationship is the key to the success of a coaching process. That has to do with the ideas of Sciacca and Mintzberg and also with the ideas of coach and author James Flaherty. He claims that three elements build such a relationship: mutual trust, mutual respect and mutual freedom of expression.

What it truly takes to create a coaching relationship is again and again unique. I still don’t know. But when it happens, I can hear the music.

2012-06-27
Marie Kaufmann

Regionförbundet Örebro är först i Sverige att lyfta social välfärd till regional nivå

The Örebro Regional Development Council has, with the support of Next Stop You, formulated a new program for the social welfare of the region. They are the first region in Sweden to uplift social welfare to the regional level. The aim was to involve hundres of stakeholders and activate the regional leadership for the coming program. You can read more here:

http://www.regionorebro.se/gronmeny/nyheterpress/pressmeddelande /2011/orebroregionenforstisverige
medattlyftasocialvalfardtill
regionalniva.5.33ff32f2135435fb03f800010322.html

2012-06-27
Anna-Eva Lohe

Excellent evaluations for Next Stop You Leadership Program!

We are proud to note that Next Stop You Leadership Program received excellent evaluations. Overall the program got rated at 9,2 (out of 10), intents were achieved to 80% with the help of the program, and it be recommended to others at 9,5. The words most oftenly used were “Useful, Developing, Fun, Challenging, New Leadership”. Thank you all who contributed to the input, and for creative ideas for further development. Our conclusion is that the program holds a very high standard and has a high integrity to what it promises: strengthening the leadership of complex, innovative change processes and developing the personal leadership. 

Next Stop You Leadership Program has been developed from the former Process Coaches Program, that we have been leading since 12 years. We are excited to take this new step – a new program with the best from the old, and new powerful content in the forefront of the leadership and change field.

The next program starts 27-28 August and we welcome all who might be interested. info@nextstopyou.com

2012-06-27
Anna-Eva Lohe

Open Space som hand i handske

Ibland så kommer formuleringar som hand i handske. Jag hade möjlighet att som styrelseledamot formulera en personlig kommentar på Svenska Open Space Institutets hemsida om varför jag arbetar med Open Space som metod och förhållningssätt. Följande växte fram och jag gillar det. Framför allt gillar jag Open Space!

“Hur kan man föra samtal med riktning och samtidigt ta vara på det som vi på förhand inte kan lista ut? Det som är i vardande? Det som växer fram? För mig är denna fråga oerhört kittlande och utmanande. Open Space ger en struktur för detta utan yviga gester. Den tillhandahåller en mänsklig miljö som talar till vår känsla av ansvarstagande, framtidstro och vår förmåga att skapa tillsammans. Open Space tänder engagemang och passion i de fall då uppgivenhet råder.  Den för på ett naturligt sätt människor närmare varandra i det som förenar. Denna upplevelse har funnits med mig sedan 2000 då jag gick min första utbildning med Harrison Owen och den fortsätter att fördjupa, inspirera och ge mig vägledning.”

Det ni får man säga var en bra investering! Misstänker du att Open Space kan vara som hand i handske även för dig – är du varmt välkommen till vår nästa Open Space-ledarutbildning på Solliden i Stockholm. Anmäl dig här på vår hemsida.

Bloggare

Arkiv