Assessment – Page 2 – Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM)

Laske’s ‘Transformative Effects of Coaching on Executives’ Professional Agendas’ (1999)

June 27, 2019June 8, 2022

Otto Laske CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Dialectical Thinking, DTF, Introduction, Socio-emotional Dimension

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This blog contains a downloadable copy of Laske’s Psy.D. dissertation of 1999 (2 volumes). The thesis was submitted to William James College, Newton, MA. Readers were Robert Kegan, Ph.D., of Harvard Graduate School of Education; Samual Moncata, Ph.D., of William James College, Newton, MA. (then called ‘MA School of Professional Psychology’); and Tim Hall, Ph.D,...

Contributions to Evidence Based Developmental Coaching

March 24, 2016July 10, 2022

Otto Laske cognitive Fluidity, Developmental Assessment, Socio-emotional Dimension, Team Coaching, Team Development

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This article describes a constructivist approach to coaching based on the Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF). Such coaching is evidence based, i.e., based on empirical assessments of coachees prior to actual coaching. Coaching plans are based on empirical findings about coachees’ present frame of reference (the way they see the world), meant to guide them toward...

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...

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...

Dialectical Thinking as a Culture Transformation Instrument for Organizations.

September 23, 2015July 11, 2022

Otto Laske Active Listening, CDF, Cognitive Dimension, Deep Thinking, Developmental Assessment, Developmental Listening, Otto Laske, Socio-emotional Dimension, Thought Forms

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In this new book (to appear in 2016), addressed to CEO’s, board members, and members of executive teams, Otto Laske takes an in-depth look at his Constructive Developmental Framework as a culture transformation instrument. The book focuses on organizational discourse culture as the lever by which fundamental changes come about when engaging with new forms...