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Coaching in Challenging Times International Coach Federation John Whitmore November 2008

Coaching in Challenging Times International Coach Federation John Whitmore November 2008 www.ihexcellence.com www.performanceconsultants.com. Despite all the environmental talk and action of 15 years, nothing has improved. Unless we change direction, we are liable to end up

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Coaching in Challenging Times International Coach Federation John Whitmore November 2008

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  1. Coaching in Challenging Times International Coach Federation John Whitmore November 2008 www.ihexcellence.com www.performanceconsultants.com

  2. Despite all the environmental talk and action of 15 years, nothing has improved. Unless we change direction, we are liable to end up where we are headed. All we have to do to ensure the devastation of all life on earth is nothing.

  3. The Global Context Consumerism is incompatible with Sustainability (more versus less) Quantitative technical advance is far ahead of Qualitative wisdom. Hierarchy is in decay, and must be superseded by Self-Responsibility.

  4. The Economic Context Selfish Capitalism in English speaking countries, (US, Canada, UK, OZ, NZ) was more competitive and successful economically, until the 2008 crisis. Inclusive Capitalism in the rest of Europe has produced slower economic growth. However… Stress and Distress in the former runs at 23% with higher childhood obesity, educational failures, social breakdown. Stress and Distress in the latter stands at 11%. Oliver James

  5. “For millennia we lived on our income, ie what we grew each year, until the Industrial Revolution. Then we discovered coal and oil. Thereafter we metaphorically raided the bank and extracted millions of years of irreplaceable stored solar energy. In our greed, we stole it from future generations, and are polluting our own to the point of extinction.” John Whitmore 2006

  6. Consider this: The three richest men in the world are worth more than the poorest 600,000,000. Are worth more? Some top executives are paid 500 times what their employees get. One third of the world lives on less than one pound a day.

  7. and this: 35,000 people die of starvation every day, many of them children. There are more slaves in the world today than 200 years ago. (20 million+) One industry is allowed to kill over 8000 people a day with impunity.

  8. “The trickledown theory will take care of the less well off.” Adam Smith “If one feeds a horse enough oats, some will pass through it onto the road for the sparrows.” J. K. Galbraith

  9. Social Justice People Serve the Economy now but in the future, what ? the Economy must Serve People

  10. Making a relative improvement may be an absolute disaster. It is shoring up and preserving a killer system that ensnares humanity in social, spiritual and economic poverty.

  11. In absolute terms we have improved nothing environmentally in a decade How much longer do we have?

  12. Failing Leadership • Traditional leadership is in decline • In Business, politics, religion, education + • Without a respected outer authority, standards and ethics are abandoned and liberalisation becomes licence. • Corporate crime runs out of control.

  13. Corporate Corruption Siemens, Southern Water, VW, Christies, Sotherbys, Gucci, Halliberton, Enron, WorldCom, S & L, The majority of UK Banks & financial service companies UK Supermarkets milking farmers US Healthcare, Pharma & Insurers Arms trade, Tobacco, Pornography

  14. Today’s Business Drivers Getting things done on time Fear of failure Short term financial goals All three are FEAR reactions. If excellence is to be achieved, a change from a FEAR to a TRUST paradigm is essential.

  15. Old New Growth Sustainability Imposed Rules Inner Values FearTrust Quantity Quality Excess Sufficiency Teaching Learning In/dependence Interdependence Success Service Control Nature Natural Systems Degradation Re-creation

  16. Future Leadership • Two forms of leadership arise • New leaders with new qualities • Leadership spread among a wider constituency • New leadership qualities are evoked by self-development

  17. Values • Values emerge from within during personal development • Values that are not adopted from parents, social norms or religion • Values that are all inclusive • Ethical behaviour that reflects those values

  18. Whose Agenda? Hierarchy of Loyalty or Values • Universal • National • Corporate • Team • Family • Self

  19. The Coach’s Role Coaching isthe only non-stigmatised profession whose primary product is self-responsibility. Coaching is no more a cottage industry. Staying small is ego driven false humility. Coacheshave a responsibility to rise to the challenges, opportunities and urgent needs, that our global crisis presents.

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