The Don Quixote Project: New Perspectives on Functional and Dysfunctional Organizations and Their Leaders

Functional organizations are not places of the body and mind. They are places of spirit and soul. There is no such thing as a “secular” organization—for all contemporary models of organizational life are deeply embedded to the framework of ancient religious practices and have been nurtured in the soil of communal life and traditional societies. […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 26, 2011
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Life Shields: A Coaching Tool

Variations of this tool have been available for many years—ever since the concept of life planning was first introduced into organizational consulting work. It remains one of the most useful tools that can be used by a professional coach who is working with her client in the exploration and clarification of life and career values […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 20, 2011
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Poised on the Edge of Order and Chaos

What might we learn from postmodern theorists, observers and critics as well as contemporary physicists and biologists about the nature of change as it is now occurring in 21st Century societies?
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 19, 2011
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Organizational Coaching Programs

In this essay I identify and review a series of appreciative concepts and tools that can open opportunities and reduce threat by making the evaluative process clearer and more supportive when reviewing an organizational coaching program. I will also identify feedback strategies that enable the program evaluation process to be constructive. Effective program evaluation is […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 15, 2011
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Intentional Analysis: A Comprehensive and Appreciative Model for the Evaluation of Organizational Coaching Programs

I propose that evaluations of coaching programs conducted in organizational settings can best be systematically conducted by deploying a process called Intentional Analysis. I further recommend a twelve-step process that enables the leaders and stakeholders of an organization to be thoughtful about the relative importance associated with specific organizational coaching program initiatives—especially as related to other initiatives […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 15, 2011
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Managing the Stress

How might a coach assist her client in identifying and even seeking to avoid or reduce the impact of these stress ruts? Five tactics and four coaching strategies are suggested.
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 15, 2011
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The Clearness Process: A Coaching Tool

The clearness process offers a gentle way in which a professional coach can encourage increasingly deeper reflection on the part of their client, without violating the basic premise of this peer-based approach that one need not be an expert or authority to be helpful to another person in an organization
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 12, 2011
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A Gestalt Perspective on Coaching in Organizations: Puzzles, Problems and Mysteries

William Bergquist and Dorothy Siminovitch An overarching challenge for any coach working within organizations is to recognize, accurately name and describe the issue that the client brings for the coaching effort. Facing the complexity of organizational realities, we, as coaches, must decipher the nature of the issue being presented: whether it is a puzzle, a […]
  • Posted by Bill Bergquist
  • On August 11, 2011
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