{"id":533,"date":"2009-09-19T15:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-09-19T15:53:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T22:53:28","slug":"and-toronto-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/and-toronto-was","title":{"rendered":"And Toronto was &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a bit guilty:\u00a0 I was hoping I could blog my experiences at the training class this week, but just didn&#8217;t have the energy.\u00a0 The week was, in a word, astounding.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->But first a quick diversion: I had a chance to meet up with a couple of dear HP friends (who I&#8217;d never actually met in person) this week. Their generosity was overwhelming, and it just reinforces for me the power of putting energy into building my network.<\/p>\n<p>And the wine was wonderful too!<\/p>\n<p>But what about the coaching training class?\u00a0 Well, it was a class called Foundation Course in Leadership Coaching, put on by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefortongroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Forton Group<\/a> in the UK.\u00a0 They have a totally different approach than I&#8217;ve ever seen before: Not only to the class, but to the way they develop trainers, and indeed to the way they run the entire company.<\/p>\n<p>It absolutely supports my personal mission of making a deep contribution to the way organizations and leaders operate, and this company&#8217;s value system closely matches my own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see if I can describe why the class was so much different than anything I&#8217;d ever seen.\u00a0 They start with five core coaching principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>coaching presence<\/li>\n<li>accept, blend, and create<\/li>\n<li>trust the client<\/li>\n<li>operating in partnership<\/li>\n<li>living in possibility<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What was so shocking was that they designed the class around these principles.\u00a0 Not just <em>teaching<\/em> the principles &#8211; that&#8217;s easy &#8211; but actually <em>being<\/em> the principles.\u00a0 I find it hard to describe in words.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:\u00a0 If you trust that the class attendees to have all the wisdom, resources and creativity they need, then there&#8217;s no need to focus on conveying information.\u00a0 Very few PowerPoints.\u00a0 Instead, the trainer is holding the space for learning, discovery, and co-creation.\u00a0 The group is, as a whole, teaching each other, and pulling resources and insight from the trainer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if that makes sense; it&#8217;s difficult to capture.\u00a0 I hope to do a better job walking through some of these concepts in future postings.<\/p>\n<p>But, for the moment, I&#8217;m living in that place of rich possibility, where I am starting to see how I will make a deep and lasting impact on the world through the companies I will work with.\u00a0 Words can&#8217;t describe the feeling that&#8217;s given me.<\/p>\n<p>More to come!\u00a0 Not really about finding someone else&#8217;s job posting at this point, but instead it&#8217;s about building the future where I will rock the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel a bit guilty:\u00a0 I was hoping I could blog my experiences at the training class this week, but just didn&#8217;t have the energy.\u00a0 The week was, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/and-toronto-was\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[76,6,26,31],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-533","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-career","10":"post_tag-coaching","11":"post_tag-leadership","12":"post_tag-organizational-coaching"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}