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
Sunday, December 16, 2007
Where are you in your tresonance journey?
I realize that it took me almost 26 years of my working life to give tresonance its name.
When i was a kid, i used to like teaching other kids. I would help my sister with her maths and was generally popular in school and college for helping others with their studies, mostly in maths and stats.
As i grew older, i realized that i liked to run training and facilitation programs. Even as a sales manager, i was more keen to participate in the training day for my sales reps than i was in reviewing their performance numbers.
This convinced me of my thrill. Interestingly, the thrill definition evolved from 'teaching others' to 'spreading knowledge'.
Even today, this is clearly my thrill area. I take more pains than others to share what i find out and what i know. Sometimes, i share indiscriminately. The persons may not even be interested, yet i do so.
I guess that is what thrill means.
Discovering skill was an equally interesting and evolving journey. I had discovered my elocution abilities in school and my flair for theatre in college. However, it took me almost 20 years of work life to comprehensively discover my skills or core competence. It is also interesting how my definitions in this area also evolved.
From labelling them as presentation, communication and facilitation skils, i graduated to calling these influencing skills. I also figured i had an ability to build and engage teams, many a time from scratch.
With this combination of thrill and skill, i finally figured out the drill - engaging in the business of transformation; which aligns my thrill and skill wonderfully.
Interestingly, this drill is neutral to my choice of organization or function. I could well be in a hospital or in an NGO or even in a consulting company. Or, where i am today, in a large telecom company working to transform the way our customer service processes ought to work.
The alignment anchors one internally and creates a sense of joy.
I am extremely keen to know if you have managed to figure out your skill and thrill and have you found the right drill?
It is more of an introspection. Do write in your comments and own story to enrich mine.
It would be great to get an enrichment through multiple perspectives.
cheers
When i was a kid, i used to like teaching other kids. I would help my sister with her maths and was generally popular in school and college for helping others with their studies, mostly in maths and stats.
As i grew older, i realized that i liked to run training and facilitation programs. Even as a sales manager, i was more keen to participate in the training day for my sales reps than i was in reviewing their performance numbers.
This convinced me of my thrill. Interestingly, the thrill definition evolved from 'teaching others' to 'spreading knowledge'.
Even today, this is clearly my thrill area. I take more pains than others to share what i find out and what i know. Sometimes, i share indiscriminately. The persons may not even be interested, yet i do so.
I guess that is what thrill means.
Discovering skill was an equally interesting and evolving journey. I had discovered my elocution abilities in school and my flair for theatre in college. However, it took me almost 20 years of work life to comprehensively discover my skills or core competence. It is also interesting how my definitions in this area also evolved.
From labelling them as presentation, communication and facilitation skils, i graduated to calling these influencing skills. I also figured i had an ability to build and engage teams, many a time from scratch.
With this combination of thrill and skill, i finally figured out the drill - engaging in the business of transformation; which aligns my thrill and skill wonderfully.
Interestingly, this drill is neutral to my choice of organization or function. I could well be in a hospital or in an NGO or even in a consulting company. Or, where i am today, in a large telecom company working to transform the way our customer service processes ought to work.
The alignment anchors one internally and creates a sense of joy.
I am extremely keen to know if you have managed to figure out your skill and thrill and have you found the right drill?
It is more of an introspection. Do write in your comments and own story to enrich mine.
It would be great to get an enrichment through multiple perspectives.
cheers
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Tresonance - an introduction
Well. Let me start by saying what tresonance is, in brief.
We are joyful and successful in life if we are able to align 3 things in ourselves
1. Our thrill - when doing something gives us pleasure, time stands still, we are willing to re-schedule our priorities for it. This, in short, is our passion area
2. Our skill - this is a core competence area for us. This is our skin. We are better than many in this. The competence has been tested in different situations and acknowledged and validated by friends, family members and professional colleagues
3. Our drill - our career, profession or choice of lifestyle is such that it provides ample opportunities to do those things that give us thrill and that use our skill
This alignment is what i call tresonance, or transformational resonance.
For, when this alignment happens, there is a significant impact that the individual begins to make on his or her immediate surroundings, materially and spiritually. The size of this impact grows with time and can make a 'dent' in the universe if this state is maintained.
It is my belief that we must seek to understand our 'thrill' and 'skill' and to look for a 'drill' that creates this alignment. That is a sure way to joy and also success in the end.
We are joyful and successful in life if we are able to align 3 things in ourselves
1. Our thrill - when doing something gives us pleasure, time stands still, we are willing to re-schedule our priorities for it. This, in short, is our passion area
2. Our skill - this is a core competence area for us. This is our skin. We are better than many in this. The competence has been tested in different situations and acknowledged and validated by friends, family members and professional colleagues
3. Our drill - our career, profession or choice of lifestyle is such that it provides ample opportunities to do those things that give us thrill and that use our skill
This alignment is what i call tresonance, or transformational resonance.
For, when this alignment happens, there is a significant impact that the individual begins to make on his or her immediate surroundings, materially and spiritually. The size of this impact grows with time and can make a 'dent' in the universe if this state is maintained.
It is my belief that we must seek to understand our 'thrill' and 'skill' and to look for a 'drill' that creates this alignment. That is a sure way to joy and also success in the end.
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