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Leadership Development
What Jung Brings to Complexity: Reading Leaders Beyond What They Profess
David Snowden’s recent forays into applying Cynefin to coaching and leadership development carry an incapacitating blind spot which risks curtailing the very development the complexity theory giant means to foster.
Claristrat’s relationship to Cynefin is to its core complexity theory concepts, not to these latest misapplications.
The Psyche as a Complex System: What Jung Knew That Complexity Theory Is Still Learning
Most developmental theory and most complexity theory share an unexamined premise: the individual is a unified subject with centered agency. Jung dismantled it a century ago.
The psyche is not a unified system with a single center. It is a field populated by multiple complex-attractors: clusters of emotionally charged material, each organized around a symbolic role, each operating with autonomy from the others.
Adult Development As Complex Emergence Through Systemic Affordance
One cannot build a holdable account of human developmental process using systems theory concepts while remaining epistemologically innocent of what the psyche actually is.
Complexity and Coaching: an Openly Disingenuous Question for Dave Snowden
Dave Snowden published "A Trialectic for Organisational Practice and Coaching," mapping three positions that describe how practitioners relate to the people and systems they work with.
I commented on the post that his tripartite categorization was descriptive and epistemologically incongruous…
Before You Scan One More Job Posting: How to Drive Your Senior Leadership Transition
A new job does not close the gap between who you have become and how your organization needs you to show up. It relocates the gap.
The more useful conversation, which few take the time to have, is about the person doing the pivoting.
What an Executive Coaching Career (Really) Looks Like - Income Ramp and All
She had three coaching clients at $1,500 per session. Two advisory retainers from the network she had carried out of her corporate years, generating about $9,000 a month combined. The board seat she had been offered the week before retirement, plus a second one that arrived in her eighteenth month.
What You Actually Learn in an Executive Coaching Certification
Active listening. Powerful questions. Building rapport. Establishing agreements. Self-awareness, emotional intelligence, accountability frameworks. The vocabulary is consistent and has the effect of making every program sound exactly the same.
Here is what coaching school’s marketing pages do not quite tell you: the skills you learn in a serious certification program are not really skills in the conventional sense.
A Guide to Executive Coaching Certification Programs: How Senior Leaders Choose Wisely
If the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) is the mark of a journey-level practitioner, would the AATC or the MCC represent a better expansion of the horizon? Let’s navigate the accreditation landscape with precision.
Choosing an Executive Coaching Certification: A Senior Leader's Buying Guide
You have already discovered that the executive coaching education market is harder to navigate than it should be. The programs are marketed similarly. The accreditation language is confusing. The pricing varies by an order of magnitude. This guide is written to help you make the right choices more clearly.
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