Mentor Coaching is a structured process designed to strengthen the coach's foundation while providing coaching consultation regarding real-world challenges faced in coaching. Through Mentor Coaching, coaches engage in a process to deepen their capacity for systems thinking, advance their own self-leadership and build the skill set for systems-based masterful coaching.
This approach is anchored in the principle that the most meaningful change is self-directed, and the most effective way to influence any system is by understanding and modifying one’s own role within it. The coach first applies these principles to him/herself and subsequently replicates the same process with clients.
The first dimension of Mentor Coaching focuses on strengthening the coach's foundation for effectiveness, which drives the degree of value a coach is capable of delivering. This includes:
The second dimension of Mentor Coaching involves honing the coach’s functioning in the context of challenging, real-world coaching contexts. Coaches bring their most challenging coaching situations into the coaching consultation process. Through the Mentor Coaching consultation, coaches view the challenge(s) in a broader context and gain insight into how their own patterns of functioning contribute to their most pressing coaching challenges. As a result, the coach develops greater clarity regarding how s/he will proceed, ultimately strengthening her/his coaching foundation and the depth of value delivered with their own clients. This dimension of Mentor Coaching is where theory, science and self-awareness converge and are transformed into precise action.
Though humans design organizational structure, mission, vision and strategy, nature designs the forces that govern how human beings function within organizations. Mentor Coaching integrates the study of natural systems theory, biological sciences, and Bowen Family Systems Theory.
Viewing human functioning, including the functions of leadership and executive development through the broad and deep lens of systems and science allows the coach to “see” underlying drivers of functioning that more conventional, linear cause-effect thinking (i.e. - How do I get my team to be more accountable? / How do I motivate my people?) is not capable of discerning.
When the coach thinks and observes in a manner that transcends conventional thinking, instead of merely addressing symptoms of underlying factors that drive functioning, the coach illuminates normally unseen factors that influence the client’s effectiveness. This awareness translates into a much wider range of response options for the client; options that conventional thinking cannot produce.
When leaders can focus on the deeper factors that influence relationship management, culture and strategy alignment, strategy execution, learning, anxiety regulation and self-responsibility, a higher level of maturity in the way people function emerges. This process is grounded in the coach’s capacity for systems thinking, discernment and the ability to translate systems-based “seeing” into responsible action. Through Mentor Coaching, Stan guides coaches on the path toward seeing what is often overlooked..
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