Coaching Forum: Two Crucial Models for Helping Clients Solve Problems and Achieve Desired Outcomes

Einstein said (in effect - this may not be a direct quote), "You cannot solve a problem with same level of thinking that created the problem." This makes sense, does it not? The problem is that many of us don't know how to recognize levels of thinking. How does one know if the thinking is at a higher level - not just is it more complex thinking, but does it rise above the neurological level of the thinking that created the problem. So the first model has to do with logical levels.

Another barrier to achieving desired outcomes is that the outcomes are not Well-Formed. An example is that people register for "Busting Through Barriers to Success", but when asked how would they know if they were successful, they seldom have an answer.  Coaches who know how to elicit Well-Formed Outcomes from their clients have happier and "more successful" clients.
      

Benefits of the Coaching Forum:

• Share organizational coaching best practices
• Discuss coaching challenges
• Share strategies for building coaching programs
• Coach and / or mentor effectively to augment training and development initiatives
• Develop managers and leaders to effectively coach
• Evaluate the benefit of an internal vs. external coach
• Build collegial relationships and a collaborative network in the local coaching community
• Advance your knowledge and understanding of coaching
• Explore building coaching cultures within an organization

Facilitator:  Larry Wells, BS, Ed., Principal of Future Life Now
Larry taught math in Wichita, KS, and at a technical college in Missouri. He also attended Eden Theological Seminary in St. Louis and was a United Methodist pastor in Missouri for 20 years.

He began his business, Future Life Now, in Cincinnati in 1994, and earned a MSW from the UK. Larry worked in substance abuse treatment for 13 years, eight years as Organizational Development Director. For seven years, he was Faculty Liaison for Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville and teach Deepening Clinical Practice at NKU school of Social Work.

Larry is married to Cynthia Allen who is a Partner at Future Life Now. They have three children, two girls in Missouri and a son stationed at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita.