Lecture Notes: The Transcend Perspective on Coaching

Overview of the Coaching Spectrum

• Coaching Spectrum: A framework for understanding different coaching focuses.
  • Skills
  • Performance
  • Development
  • Transformation

Key Aspects of the Coaching Spectrum

Skills

• Focus: Acquiring and developing specific skills.
• Examples: Becoming a better speaker or mastering delegation.
• Importance: Fundamental part of coaching.

Performance

• Focus: Enhancing an existing skill to perform better.
• Examples: Improving presentation skills for varied audiences or specific outcomes like closing sales.
• Client Goals: Often aim to be a better manager or leader.

Development

• Focus: Shifting from skill sets to mindsets.
• Core Competency: Building across multiple domains.
• Example: Communication as a broader competency beyond just presentation skills.
• Goal: Becoming something different, not just acquiring skills.

Transformation

• Focus: Fundamental changes in ways of being, linked to core values.
• Vertical Development: Operating at higher leadership levels.
• Internal Journey: Focus on identity and personal growth.
• Transformation Goals: Become more responsive, less reactive.

Interconnectedness of Coaching Levels

• Skills, Performance, Development, Transformation: Interlinked journey.
• Transformation to Skills: New transformations may require developing accompanying skills.

The Vision for Transcend Coaching

• Goal: Facilitate meaningful transformations leading to improved skills, performance, core competency, and personal transformation.
• Outcome: Higher levels of skillful behavior and leadership.

Program Outcomes

• Learning Goals: Work effectively at all levels of the coaching spectrum.
• Role of Coaches: Help clients make changes from skill set focus to mindset focus.

Final Notes

• Choice: Coaches will choose their focus in the spectrum.
• Journey: Emphasizes the journey of transformation and development in coaching.