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Die Zeit interview with French designer Philippe Starke
P.S.: There won’t be any designers. The designer of the future will be the personal coach, the fitness trainer, the nutritionist. That’s all.
is well explained in this Times on line article.
Mark McGuiness has interviewed coaches for the creative industries in the UK for his Master’s thesis.
Peter J Webb quotes Arlin (1990)’s 6 features of wisdom which make a neat and snappy heuristic for coaching executives and any one else for that matter.
Approach a situation by asking questions
1. What do we all agree about?
2. What really matters here?
3. What in our present situation is relevant and different from what we expected?
4. What would be a more interesting way of looking at the world than we did yesterday?
5. How would that perspective expand our agreement and our relationship with the world?
and
6. What could we experiment with and try out right now?
This list is also so useful for personal coaching when some one is in a jam. The “we” in step one simply becomes what is working well in the person’s life.
“Of particular relevance to executive coaching are the principles of dialogical
thinking (encouraging the thinker, i.e., the client, to understand problems from multiple points of view), and dialectical thinking (developing understanding in the client that both questions and their answers evolve over time and can differ at different life stages).” (Peter J Webb, p. 91)
This chapter is rich with summaries about emergence and wisdom but I don’t like this conclusion about our purpose during coaching.
I think the coaching session is about challenging our preconceptions as we see the world through the perspective of our clients and when we are doing very well, understanding how their questions are changing over time.
Peter K Webb describes Staudinger’s and Baltes (1996) ‘cloud’ journey.
Apparently, if we first imagine going to different places in the world on a cloud journey, and then make practical judgments, we do significantly better.
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