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4.
You took your findings from sports to the corporate environment. Was it
something you took from business to sports?
a.
Most of my learning in sports was in individual sports, namely tennis,
golf, and skiing. In business, I
learned to help people work together in teams. This provided a new
understanding for me of what is required in team sports.
5.
The core of Inner Game – you said – is the belief that people have the
innate capabilities to perform at an exellence level, and having the
intention/wish/interest/ to live their lifes at that level. On the other hand
there is so called Peter Principle: "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his
level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until
they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. How does coaching
work in this regard?
a.
Obviously there are different levels of excellence in the mastery of any
skill or knowledge base. Innate
excellence lies in the ability to learn. From childhood on one can learn to increase
competence. In some activities, like
sports, competence can naturally decrease past a certain age.
b.
Some abilities that need not decrease with age are the abilities to enjoy, to appreciate, to love.
c.
The Peter Principle has to do with organizational behaviors, and does not speak to the ability
to learn to increase competence once
in a position beyond his competence.
The coach’s job is to facilitate that learning.
6.
As far as I know there were some Romanian participants at the Inner game
seminar in London, last year. Did you noticed some limitting beliefs?
a.
Every culture passes down its limiting belief’s. The differences between the specific
limiting beliefs is not important. The
coach’s opportunity is to learn to spot limiting belief’s and help the one
being coached to move beyond those that he’s ready to.
b.
We all have difficulties being creative enough to pass beyond the limits
we impose on ourselves. Coaches can
help if they realize that some limiting belief’s are valid and others the
person is simply not ready to give up.
7.
The folklor/proverbs/ of a nation is its “story” of - well – success. Romanian people have
sayings like that: “To beat a child is a help from God to him”, “The bent head
is not cut by the sword”, and, to be sure we are completely successful: “Time
is not something to bother for”. What would be the appropriate coaching
question for such a “body”? Particulary, in organizations.
a.
I would ask questions that
inquired into the extent that a person believed in such “truths” before the
coaching workshop and then the same question after the training. Bringing belief’s from unconscious to
conscious is the first step to examining them.
Beliefs are not Knowledge. Once
they are seen as only belief’s and not knowledge, they can best be changed by
new experience and new insight.
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