24 nov. 2015

About the coaching side-effect (sic!) of the standard assessment conversations in organizations

 
Excerpts from my presentation at "Leading Change - Coaching 12" Conference, Bucharest, 23 May 2012

Asking is changing
“A fundamental limit on the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle, such as position 'x' and momentum 'p', can be simultaneously known. 
(Uncertainty Principle)
Evaluation session is grounded in
asking questions:
Gathering/sending information
Building/maintaining relationship
Awaking creativity/Solving problems
Resolving conflicts/Making decisions
Staying on the track/Initiating action
Managing individual change


Questions are the most influential and creative aspect
of speaking and listening.
How to develop a systematic way of questioning:
Thinking about
Designing
Asking
“Only new questions
can call for new answers.”
(M.C. Goldberg)


Assessment conversation
Look who’s talking too
:)
There are internal conversations both verbal and nonverbal, and the questions asking inside
program our thoughts, feeling and actions
in site/sight.
Daniel Kahneman on the difference betweenexperience selves (ES) and remembrance selves (RS).

The ES lives its life continuesly, it has moments of experience – one aftter the other. (..)The RS defines a story - the story the memory delivers for us, and is also true that we make up changes, significant moments and endings, endings are very very important. (..)”


When asking a question are you as a manager-coachexperiencing your living-in-the present self oryou are preparing a story for your remembrance self?!
When answering a question is the employee-client experiencing the living-in-the-present selfor he is preparing a story for her/his remembrance self?