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By Susan Wright, TCP President Co-creation has become a buzz word in business in the last while, a term that gets thrown around in all kinds of contexts. For many, it seems like a valuable concept but one that is not terribly useful from a practical point of view. What does it actually mean to co-create? Are we really to give everybody a say in decisions? Let customers and employees set the agenda? Well, in a word, yes! Many writers By Sue Griggs, TCP Associate Two and a half years ago, I heard a radio interview about the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The focus was on raising awareness and mobilizing support in Canada for Africa’s grandmothers who are raising a generation of children whose parents, their own children, have been killed by AIDS. The campaign has raised money for community-level organizations in 14 sub-Saharan African countries that provide the “GoGo Grannies” with much needed support, By Lara Masse, Certified Professional Coach “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ MARGARET MEAD~ Provocative… the word I would choose to describe the last session I attended at this year’s International Coach Federation (ICF) Conference. The workshop was titled Coaches as Leaders: A Call to Social Action. An important workshop for me, for the communities in which we live, and for By Linda Sadiq, TCP Associate Imagine this actual client scenario: over the past few years new competitors are redefining the marketplace, making much greater, more creative use of the internet to reach a new client base; until this year your veteran leadership team of 8 remained convinced that the company’s reputation and experience meant that any competition would be ineffective, at best; 6 months ago two members of your leadership team suddenly retire, another leaves the sector entirely and a By Susan Wright, TCP President In April, I was privileged to attend and speak on Integrative Leadership at the Integral Without Borders Conference in Istanbul, attended by organization and social sector leaders from around the world. The challenge: how to bring an integrated perspective to the resolution of complex problems. The philosopher Ken Wilber has written extensively about this integrated view (www.integralinstitute.com) and believes there are four necessary perspectives to seeing in a holistic or integrated way. The four perspectives By Carol MacKinnon, TCP Associate I’d like to talk about a fundamental form of integration – a quaternity or four-part harmony, one that is essential for Leader Coaches to integrate in coaching, in leading, in living. That is the quaternity of Mind, Heart, Body and Spirit. I bought a little bracelet in Lima, a simple string on which were four little wooden beads on each side of a carved X and I’ve worn it on my right wrist to remind By Susan Wright, TCP President There is a lot of focus on intention these days as a concept and practice. New science has shown that what we think about actually creates physical matter. For example, the structure and activity of the brain can change in response to experience, an ability called neuroplasticity. We have known that we construct our reality through our own perceptions and beliefs for a long time but now we know that we also construct the actual For each of the four critical issues we present a brief statement of the challenge, a summary of the need and a description of offerings – processes and programs – from The Coaching Project. Finally, we conclude with excerpts from our table conversations with leaders; they describe their current experience of each of the issues and their views on how they are or could be responding. The Challenge of Employee Engagement The Bursting Boomer Bubble Creating Social Action Linkages The By Susan Wright, TCP President “To be an effective leader, one must be an effective coach” Download PDF: The Leader as Coach: Creating High Performance in Change On June 7th, 2004, The Financial Post Edge announced that Leadership Alchemy: The Magic of the Leader Coach® rated 6th on the Top Ten Books in Human Resources in the Books for Business survey. Our book was the only Canadian entry and the only book on Leadership listed! |
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