From Coach to Awakener by Robert Brian Dilts

From Coach to Awakener by Robert Brian Dilts

Coaching is the process of helping people and teams to perform at the peak of their abilities. It involves drawing out people's strengths, helping them to bypass personal barriers and limits in order to achieve their personal bests, and facilitating them to function more effectively as members of a team.

Historically, coaching has been focused toward achieving improvement with respect to a specific behavioral performance. This involves promoting the development of that person's behavioral competence through careful observation and feedback.

In recent years, the notion of coaching has taken on a more generalized and expanded meaning. Personal coaching, executive coaching and life coaching provide support on a number of different levels: behaviors, capabilities, beliefs, values, identity and even spiritual. These new and more comprehensive forms--executive coaching and life coaching-- can be referred to as capital C Coaching. Large C Coaching involves helping people effectively achieve outcomes on a range of levels. We guide people to learn about new environments, for instance; coach them to improve specific behavioral competencies; teach them new cognitive capabilities; mentor empowering beliefs and values; sponsor growth at the identity level; and awaken people's awareness of the larger system or field.

This book defines the types of contexts and situations which require the capital C Coach to focus on one of these roles--caretaker, guide, coach, teacher, mentor, sponsor, awakener--and provides a specific toolbox for each role. In other words, it provides a comprehensive tool set to be used by an effective coach to manage the entire scope of large C Coaching activities--from caretaking to awakening.

Since the late 1970s, Robert Dilts has built a global reputation as a prominent behavioral skills trainer and business consultant. Robert has given coaching, consulting, and training to a wide range of individuals and organizations throughout the world as a significant developer and specialist in the subject of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Robert invented the Success Factor ModelingTM ideas and approaches, and has written numerous books and articles on how to use them to improve leadership, creativity, communication, and team growth. He has given seminars and keynote addresses on coaching, leadership, organizational learning, and change management for The International Coaching Federation (ICF), HEC Paris, The United Nations, The European Forum for Quality Management, The World Health Organization, and The Milton H. Miller Foundation.

The Erickson Foundation, Harvard University, and the International University of Monaco are all members of the Erickson Foundation. Robert oversaw the development of Tools for Living, the behavior management component of Weight Watcher's International's present program, in 1997 and 1998. Robert spent more than fifteen years as an associate professor at the ISVOR Fiat School of Management, where he assisted in the development of programs in leadership, innovation, values, and systemic thinking. From 2001 until 2004, he was the chief scientist and Chairman of the Board of ISVOR DILTS Leadership Systems, a joint venture with ISVOR Fiat (the Fiat Group's corporate university) that provided significant organizations throughout the world with a variety of unique leadership development programs.

Robert was a co-founder of Dilts Strategy Group as well as the founder and CEO of Behavioral Engineering, a company that focused on learning methodologies and behavioral change in computer software and hardware. He is also a co-founder of the IAGC (International Association for Generative Change) alongside Dr. Stephen Gilligan. Robert graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in behavioral technology.