Primary Aim: BCDS develops world-class business coaches

Motto: "Coaching carries the weight of change"

Credo:

Taken from Brian Tracy’s 21 keys to Success:

o Dream Big Dreams

o Do what you like to do

o Find something you are really good at

o Be employed by self, ME, Inc.

o Don’t view failing as failure

o Develop clear sense of purpose

o Develop a working attitude (60 hrs/wk)

o Get around the right people

o Be teachable

o Get up when you’re down

o Respond don’t react

o Unlock your inborn creative potential

o Become committed to continuous development

o Confidently expect success

o Dedicate your life to serving others

o Develop a reputation for getting the job done everytime

o Be trustworthy

o Do the most purposeful thing at every given moment

o Be bold, decisive and action-oriented

o Be persistent

o Do what needs to be done, regardless of pleasure

Added by Mike Jay

o Be passionate about life

o Love deeply

o Be a friend

o Focus

o Accept personal responsibility

o Refuse to compromise your peace of mind

o Connect to the collective spirit

 

 

[Strategic Design, Architecture or Intention follows the SMILE Taxonomy: Assumptions -Values - Vision – Purpose – Guiding Principles – Strategic Objectives – Key Success Factors – Goals – Standards]

· There are four basic dimensions of human experience:

o Personal

o Business

o Network

o Soul

· Consequently there are four concurrent streams of learning occurring

· Life is holographic rather than linear

· Fractals comprise total reality and can not be fractured

· Simplicity is critical, however only in the context of systems

· Attempts to fracture reality lead to problem-generating solutions

· Underlying structures form patterns of behavior

· Changes in structure result from interactions with experience

· Most of our experience is created through our structures

· Generative change occurs through changes in structure rather than behavior

· Behavioral change is often single loop learning

· Structural change occurs through double loop learning

· Changes in beliefs that support structure occur as triple loop transformation

· COACH2 focuses on designing conversations rather than designing change

· Coaching uses a model like COACH2 as leverage for designing interactions

· Coaching can be seen as the fundamental interaction leading to triple loop learning

· COACH2 coaching involves learning at all three levels:

o Single loop – doing things better – performance

o Double loop – doing things different or doing different things – change

o Triple loop -- being different –transformation

· People learn when they want to

· Motivation to learn comes from needs that have led to an opening in structures

· Everyone is on a journey

· Success and happiness are determined intrinsically and not extrinsically

 

o awareness

o purpose

o competence

o well-being

 

The BCDS is created as a structure underlying an exploration into four dimensions of experience encountered by the professional business coach. These dimensions of experience occur simultaneously in four dimensions: personal, business, networks, spirit).

Understanding clearly that these dimensions are inextricably linked to one another and that movement in one creates movement of sorts in the others is critical to understanding the nature of complex adaptive systems and how they function. A hologram provides a metaphor for understanding the relevance of any one piece of reality (fractal) at any one point in time. This fractal contains all the components of the hologram such that it is impossible to fragment reality by reducing it, deconstructing it or fracturing it.

This critical structure of belief is the essential step in viewing reality as a living system capable of re-generation rather than seeing it only as entropic in nature. When we coach a person, we coach a person’s systems, their network of relationships, the business system that are functioning within and of course attend to the needs of their connection with and to soul.

To achieve coaching mastery requires practice, experience, learning and compassion. We seek to work on not in, yet fully realizing that we are part of the field of potentiality and our presence in the field affects the field. We do not own the field, we participate with a beginner’s mind developed through detachment and purpose. We become whole when we become that which we seek in our soul. We as coaches are most effective when the person being coached realizes themselves.

To use the BCDS to create multiple learning streams focused on four essential dimensions of experience, conversation and interaction: personal, business, network and soul.

o Emotional Intelligence is key to personal and business success

o You are being paid what you are worth

o Your life is consistent with your beliefs

o Our being is largely plastic in terms of ability to change

o Purpose is attractive

o Well-being stems from our own notions of reality

o Success in world-class business requires high degrees of emotional intelligence

o Helping enough other people get what they want, provides everything you want

o People are where they are, coach from there

o Understand things in terms of systems

o Seek to surface underlying structures creating patterns of behavior

o Use all three loops of experience and learning concurrently

o Performance-change-transformation

o Attach yourself to purposeful action, detach from outcomes

o Preview outcomes in an attempt to take more purposeful actions

o Coach through openings not gaps

o Life is a universal field of potentiality however few people grasp that conceptually

o Stuff Happens, accept that and stay on purpose

o View reality in business in terms of now, near and far vision

 

The following strategy map of objectives measured by KSFs for BCTS:

· Move from survival to purpose (align with self-actualizing potential)

· Become attractive on purpose (stop having to sell yourself)

· Evolve to a higher level of awareness (become self-aware)

· Model double-loop thinking in your practice (test assumptions)

· Build an Attractive Professional Marketing $ystem (APM$)

· Improve Competence in helping others attain these states (learn to coach)

· Increase Competence in helping business create generative results (use C2)

· Achieve higher and longer states of well-being and flow

 

These are the key success factors (KSFs) based on the strategic intention of BCDS. These KSFs are measurable and distinctive for each and every participant.

1. Achieve Certified Business Coach Credential (CBC)

2. Integrate COACH2 into lifestyle & workstyle (being vs. doing)

3. Create more higher quality work opportunities (satisfaction/quality of work)

4. Achieve business results through practice (satisfaction)

5. Evolve level of consciousness & development (happiness/effectiveness)

 

Here are the goals that we are working with you to accomplish in the BCDS Charter Program.

· Attend all training at 95% completion

· Prepare for every session with ½ hour of focused time and effort

· Connect and network with everyone in the class at some point during the BCDS

· Spend ½ in reflection daily regarding your coaching mastery

· Journal everyday in the program for a min of 5 minutes

· Become aware of your thoughts and feelings everyday

· Witness your thoughts and feelings every time you feel dissonance/happiness

· Work with your coach towards resolving your incongruencies ½ hr/wk

· Discuss your life with your mentor ½ hour per week

STANDARDS:

Here are the standards (ground rules) that you must use during the BCDS:

· Every time you feel odd, upset, angry, sad, happy—ask yourself why?

· Ask lots of questions at appropriate times—use the discussion list everyday

· Speak and allow others to speak

· Come on time to all calls – be present for one hour

· Execute your journal time every day

· Spend ½ hr per day in quiet reflection

· Practice these ethics in all you do:

· Do what you say

· Under-promise -- Over-deliver

· Treat people how they wish to be treated

· Be compassionate

· Be fair

· Be respectful

· Keep EVERYTHING Confidential, unless someone breaks the law

· Be aware of what you do and say and how it affects others

· Exhibit the highest levels of professionalism at all times

· Be authentic