The Transcend Point of View As William James, often regarded as the “founder” of modern, Western, psychology said 100 years or so ago, “…in any moment, what we are “attending to” is our reality”. This simple statement, well ahead of its time, is now backed up by modern neuroscience and thought leadership in adult learning …
Many individuals we’ve encountered have something about his or her behavior that they want to change, but are having a hard time doing it. The Immunity to Change coaching and training method, developed by Professor Robert Kegan of Harvard University (Kegan & Lahey, 2009), is the most effective process we know to address someone’s …
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We are delighted to announce that Sam Magill Sr has joined Transcend International Academy of Professional Coaching as our Director of Training (DOT). Sam is an MCC who resonates with the values of our organisation and our high standards. We are convinced he will be a great addition to our Academy and that together we …
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Yet another reason to focus more on the team and less on individuals Having a team full of superstars doesn’t lead to high performance, according to research by Roderick Swaab, a professor at Insead business school, and his colleagues[1]. His researches indicate that when two-thirds of the team are star performers, they co-operate less and …
If you think what you are doing is coaching and you have not been trained to coach then what you are doing is probably not coaching. In fact, most internal 1 and 2 day coach training programs are designed to help managers and leaders to learn and hopefully use the “skills of coach” and not …
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The Talent Wave Why Succession Planning Fails and What to do about it “If current practice in succession planning works, how come the wrong people so often get to the top? And why is it still twice as hard for a talented woman to get promoted than her male counterpart?” After seven years of interviews …
Transformational Coach Training Through our coach training and development programs, we develop coaches who are skilled in helping people meaningfully transform their ability to pay attention to goals that are meaningful to them in key moments of choice. William James is quoted as saying, “For the moment, what we attend to is reality.” In our practice of coaching, …
How to Build a Coaching Culture in Work Teams By David Clutterbuck A couple of years ago, I started to gather anecdotal evidence about the effectiveness of sheep-dip training for line managers as coaches. (Typically a two or three day “Line Manager as Coach” workshop.)The results were even worse than I expected. Many managers went …
Getting things done is not enough. Two birds with one stone simply does not measure up. The existing paradigm is “get the result… AND”. The ubiquitous “and” represents any number of facets of the desired “result.” Increase production “and” reduce costs, hit sales targets “and” succession plan, develop competences, drive values, satisfy customers, create loyalty, …
Internal Coaching Tips Stop Multitasking and Start Multi-targeting Read More »
Alumni Interview – Phil Smith Why Transcend? I met Craig first actually through some of the work that I’m doing with Hong Kong University (HKU). When he and I talked about our interest and what Transcend was doing and what HKU Space was doing, we both thought there was a chance/possibility to develop some kind …
