Written by Leanne Cusumano Roque, Esq.
Thursday, 20 May 2010 12:35
Transcript: What if you could give your students the ability to constantly and effectively adapt to change in a way that leads to consistent success? Hi. I'm Leanne Cusumano Roque, President and Executive Coach at CRC Consulting. I believe the way to enable students, leaders, and entrepreneurs to consistently adapt to change in a way that leads to consistent success is through coaching. After talking with Guy Pfeffermann and Nora Brown at GBSN, I'm opening up a discussion with you about 3 things:
What is coaching?
How are GBSN Member schools currently using coaching?
What possibilities exist for how GBSN, its Member Schools, its Programs Schools, their students, and entrepreneurs, can use coaching to be successful in a way that is efficient, effective, and economical, across the board?
First: What is coaching? When I talk about coaching, I'm talking about using the International Coach Federation competencies and ethics in a way that allows the client to best notice what they are doing, identify what makes them successful, and repeat success over and over again. Some of those competencies include:
asking open ended questions
being in a position as the coach of not knowing the answers, and
trusting that my client, an adult learner, does have the answers.
For example, "What possibilities exist for increasing sales?" is a coaching question." "Why don't you have a one-day sales event?" is not a coaching question.
Second: How are GBSN's Member schools using coaching with their Masters of Business Administration or Executive MBA program students nowadays? I know, from my own experience, and from other colleagues here in the United States and in Europe, that there are Member Schools using techniques called coaching with business students. I'm curious about what those programs look like, sound like, feel like for you, and whether those programs are ICF-types of coaching, or other types of [programs that are] useful and different from coaching programs. For example, something that might more often be called mentoring or consulting.
Third: How might GBSN, its Member Schools, its Program Schools, students and entrepreneurs, use coaching? From my perspective, the possibilities exist in a couple of different arenas. First of all, GBSN, its Member Schools, and its Program Schools can use coaching for themselves to do strategic planning, tactical implementation, and [create] a learning feedback loop to accurately identify how to spend time, money, and energy. A second way that coaching can be useful for students and entrepreneurs is as a practice that [creates a vision,] takes an accurate picture of [current] reality, enables students and entrepreneurs to identify what is working, how they are able to succeed, and then apply those lessons, over and over again, to consistently be successful at what is most important.
I'm very interested in hearing from you about:
what your perspectives are on coaching,
how you're using coaching nowadays, and
what you think are possibilities for using coaching in the future.
Please, post your responses here at GBSN's blog, and I look forward to meeting you in June at GBSN's conference.
Leanne Cusumano Roque, Esq., A.C.C.
President,
CRC Consulting, Inc.
Leanne supports successful individuals and organizations in creating awareness for conscious choice, with a sense of well-being, through Executive coaching, effective meeting facilitation, and career coaching. She specializes in working with nonprofits, attorneys, scientists, and Federal leaders.
She is a graduate of the International Coach Federation (ICF) Accredited Coach Training Program® Success Unlimited Network® (SUN), and is an ICF-credentialed Associate Certified Coach. Leanne became a coach after she experienced the power of coaching for long-term change. She is also a certified MBTI practitioner and author of a 2010 Independent Press Publishers Award-winning book Live Light: Simple Steps, a book of meditations and inquiries to help shift perspective and make effective choices. You can reach her through her website at http://www.shinelikethesun.com.
Written by Barbara Spies Blair
Monday, 03 May 2010 12:28
Building Your Organization While Building Your Business?
If
human capital and social capital are entrepreneurial resources, why not
organizational capital? Our organizational culture emerges while we
are frantically trying to build our business – and we eventually end up
dealing with the challenge of changing culture. What if we approached
this more intentionally from the very beginning?
Written by William Woodthorpe
Wednesday, 28 April 2010 10:38
Recently at the third annual Clinton Global Initiative
University, national universities and national organizations made
commitments worth $42 million to challenges such as climate change, poverty,
human rights, education, health care, and the environment. Among these
commitments was a gift by the President of Babson College, Leonard Schlesinger
with an estimated value of $18 million in the form of the Babson Global
Entrepreneurship Education Network.
By dramatically building on the foundation of their highly
successful Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE), which
has demonstrated our unique capabilities to “teach the teachers,” the Babson
Global Entrepreneurship Education Network (GEEN) will build a global community
of Babson trained educators that will deliver their unique and highly
successful brand of educating new and emerging leaders around the world.
Specific initiatives within this commitment include organizing a symposium at
the beginning of the clinical-residential year where educators would spend time
at Babson (learning to teach) or in an entrepreneurial environment (learning
the practical side) or a combination of both; the localization of their
materials to meet the relevent needs of communities, businesses, and
governments around the world; the creation of a state-of-the-art virtual
web-center for GEEN – this would allow on-line education and classes, blogging,
dissemination of best practices, and professional network support; thus
resulting in greater outreach; and a certification program that will “license”
their approach to influential educators who will disseminate knowledge on a
global and unprecedented scale. They envision this prorgam being one that can
be replicated by other institutions. Finally they will continue their work with
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resulting from the release of the first ever
Babson Entrepreneurship Monitor (BEM) for the State. The collaboration modeled
there demonstrated the first time that this methodology, designed to measure
entrepreneurial activity, has been applied at the state level everywhere in the
United States.
GBSN, meanwhile, has partnered with CGI University and Global
Giving to help enable student social entrepreneurs to raise funds for their
work using GlobalGiving. The organizations will provide a financial and social
media platform for student social entrepreneurs to post their projects and to
raise funds. Furthermore, GBSN and GlobalGiving will provide training,
financial incentives, and technical support as well as work with groups of
students to evaluate each other’s work and the work of other social
entrepreneurs raising funds on the GlobalGiving web site.
Many of the 100+ participants flew in from Tibet, in addition to Diaspora Tibetans. The conference was convened by Machik and the Tibet Sustainable Governance Program at the University of
Virginia.
The sessions, which took place at the Darden School of Businesss,
touched on Concepts (sustainability, innovation, entrepreneurship),
Social Investment, including case studies from Tibet and elsewhere, and
on New Horizons: Tibet, Social Entrepreneurship and Global Connections.
I was invited by Machik, an NGO focused on education,
capacity-building and innovation on the Tibetan Plateau to present GBSN
to the Plenary.
The Tibetan economy offers much potential for broadly-shared
development – a variety of mushrooms grow in Tibet, for example, which
generate a substantial revenue stream to rural populations, eco-tourism
is developing as well as dairy processing , exports of handicraft and
of traditional medicines. There is however no institution that equips
small businesses with enhanced entrepreneurial skills. Several of the
Tibetan participants told me there is a need for such an educational
center.
This was a heartwarming meeting. In coming weeks I will explore how GBSN can work with some of the participating organizations.
“This dearth of management training also hinders micro, small, and midsize businesses. These are the largest source of jobs in most
developing countries.”
- Guy Pfeffermann, "Into Africa", Global Focus, Summer 2008
