Developmental Coaching – Page 8 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Foundations of Scholarly Consulting: The Developmental Structure/Process Tool

February 22, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Development

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This article of 2000 deepens Argyris’ notion of theory-in-use by recourse to empirical findings of the developmental sciences. It defines “consulting” based on this deeper notion. The article teaches a lesson still not learned in consulting: that theory-in-use has to do with levels of mental growth, both cognitively and social-emotionally, cutting through all “competence models”....

An Integrated Model of Developmental Coaching

February 16, 2016July 11, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Coaching, Cognitive Dimension, Developmental Assessment, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This article, originally published in 1999 but still very timely today, introduces a way of deepening cognitive-behavioral, psycho-dynamic, and other behavioral approaches to coaching and HR resources management. It proposes an epistemological model that focuses on adults’ frame of reference (world view), the true determinant of human behavior, which has been practiced and taught internationally...

Human Systems in the Anthropocene

January 5, 2016July 11, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF

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This article is a reflection on the lack of systemic and holistic “dialectical” thinking in a world in which more than ever human actions have strong and immediate repercussions in the natural, and thus also the social, environment. It is suggested that present notions of teaching, coaching, and consulting are hopelessly anachronistic since they are...

Mentoring a Behavioral Coach to Think Developmentally

December 15, 2015July 11, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Socio-emotional Dimension, Thought Forms

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In this dialog between two coaches, one of them behavioral, the other developmental, I convey the mindset it takes to think about coaching clients in an adult-developmental manner. My goal is to demonstrate the differences in thinking and listening, not just “methodology”, that separate the two approaches to coaching. From my experience, while behavioral coaching...