Over the last few months, i have been conducting a program 'Leader as a coach' for one of the leading telecommunication service providers of the world. During this program, i realized how the model of Tresonance is applicable to having a good coaching conversation between a coach - manager and her/his coachee - team member.
One of the key aspects of coaching is a deep understanding of the coachee by the coach. The passion or thrill and the competencies, skills are important elements that the coach must learn about the coachee.
Many a times, the coachee is unaware of her/his thrill drivers and skills/strengths because no one, including himself, has spent reflection time to uncover these. So, this session becomes useful to uncover a knowledge of these for both. Sometimes, the coachee has a perception of his 'thrill' and 'skill' but no real deep dive is done to validate or to reaffirm this 'knowing'. This becomes an important part of the initial dialogues between the coach and coachee.
Understanding of the thrill and skill factors helps the coach be a more effective facilitator in helping the coachee arrive at appropriate career choices. Once that pathway is understood with higher clarity, the role options over the next few years and the competencies that ought to be focused on which are more relevant to those future role, will become evident.
To summarize, the Tresonance model is a powerful way to deep dive into a coach coachee relationship and provides an effective framework for building career pathing options.
Over time, if done with integrity, more square pegs will be in more square holes. This will unleash tremendous energy and actually accelerate the overall process of evolution of the universe.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Friday, February 29, 2008
Love what you do OR Do what you love?
As i crossed the magic age of 50, this has been a key question with me. Many of us get trapped in our pay packets and ambitions. We also rationalize that it is possible to love what you do.
I agree but only up to a point. I have been through situations in life where i could love what i was doing but i figured that it just did not match up to the spark of moments when i was doing what i loved.
Each one of us has a responsibility to discover our unique potentiality and area of contribution ideally suited to accelerating the evolution of our planet. I understand today that anything i do must have people, alignment and change at the heart of it. Softer areas of organization and people development are more energizing than the hard world of numbers and processes. Those are also important but there is more to life even in an organization that we must uncover.
This realization will guide my future choices for sure.
But I urge each one of you to take time out to unravel what your thrill and skill areas are. Go and ask your friends, parents and your colleagues and bosses. They will tell you. You will also know through reflection what these are.
And then look at making conscious choices to align your 'drill', your 'work area', to these.
It will be tough to give up all that has defined you so far but, in the long run, you would have done yourself and this universe a favour
I agree but only up to a point. I have been through situations in life where i could love what i was doing but i figured that it just did not match up to the spark of moments when i was doing what i loved.
Each one of us has a responsibility to discover our unique potentiality and area of contribution ideally suited to accelerating the evolution of our planet. I understand today that anything i do must have people, alignment and change at the heart of it. Softer areas of organization and people development are more energizing than the hard world of numbers and processes. Those are also important but there is more to life even in an organization that we must uncover.
This realization will guide my future choices for sure.
But I urge each one of you to take time out to unravel what your thrill and skill areas are. Go and ask your friends, parents and your colleagues and bosses. They will tell you. You will also know through reflection what these are.
And then look at making conscious choices to align your 'drill', your 'work area', to these.
It will be tough to give up all that has defined you so far but, in the long run, you would have done yourself and this universe a favour
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