Un acercamiento a las bases cerebrales del Coaching

Titulo “A Brain-Based Approach to Coaching“
Por David Rock, based on an interview with Jeffrey M. Schwartz, M.D.
Fuente: http://www.workplacecoaching.com/pdf/CoachingTheBrainIJCO.pdf

Quiero compartir con vosotros un paper que se ha presentado en la “International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2006“; 4(2), pp. 32-43, por David Rock.

En dicho paper, David, introduce un fundamento teórico para el coaching basado en la función cerebral. Se destacan algunas de las conclusiones actuales desde la neurociencia, percepción, reflexión y acción, a través de una entrevista con uno de las principales neurocientíficos (Jeffrey M. Schwartz).

Reproduzco a continuación la introducción del documento. Para bajarte el documento completo PULSA AQUÍ.

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Introduction

Coaching has emerged from a synthesis of many fields including training, adult learning, consulting, change management, the human potential movement, psychology and systems science. Each of these fields has their own models and approaches to coaching. The various schools of thought agree on little, except that “coaching works,” and that more of it should be done. There is no widely accepted theoretical framework that explains why we need it, how it actually works and how to do it better.

This can be a problem when various constituencies are trying to roll out system-wide approaches to coaching. Senior executives, being academically trained and analytical, will want a theory base, evidence and research to support the introduction of any new way of thinking into their organization. A brain-based approach to coaching may provide an answer to this challenge, for a number of reasons.

First, every event that occurs in coaching is tied to activities in someone’s head. (Some people may argue that coaching is more “heart based.” Whatever your perspective is on this, consider that emotions have correlates in the brain too.) This means that a brain-based approach should underpin and explain every good coaching model and provide the field with an underpinning science. A brain-based approach is going to be inclusive and bring the disparate field to greater cohesion.

Second, a brain-based approach to coaching looks attractive when you think about the other contenders for a foundational discipline, the obvious one being psychology. From an organizational perspective, psychology suffers from a mixed history and a perception of being unscientific. While psychologists are the first people called on if someone is in crisis, most senior leaders would not consider them for improving performance because of the bias they assume psychologists have for therapeutic languages and models. A brain-based approach on the other hand is something tangible and physical. We live in a materialistic world where organizations respect things that can be measured. To bring about the wide- scale use of coaching as a learning or transformation tool, we need to speak to organizations in a language they understand.

The main reason it may be time to build a brain-based approach to coaching is simply how profoundly useful this approach is. It is interesting to be able to explain in scientific terms why the brain needs coaches, but it is even more useful to know how coaching helps the brain improve its functioning. This points us to ways we can better measure, manage and deliver coaching initiatives, whether one to one, training internal coaches, or in teaching coaching skills to thousands of leaders.

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Más estudios de David Rock: http://www.workplacecoaching.com/resources.html