Meeting Clients Where They Are – the Adult Development Coaching GPS

imagine if there is a developmental framework, different from personality types and preferences, that can help us not only meet our clients at their location, but also help us better understand how to navigate from our location to theirs.

Posted by Petra Platzer
On March 21, 2018
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THE VULNERABILITY OF MEN: SWIMMING UPSTREAM TOWARD INTIMACY

Traditional masculinity is a social and cultural construct that dictates the way that men are expected to live, act, behave, and feel. This constraint is likely the catalyst for the issues that men experience in expressing emotion and demonstrating emotional needs.

Posted by Simon Neo Teck Koon
On January 16, 2018
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Coaching Across the Generations

One of the central issues that emerged during our wide-ranging discussions in Santa Fe about the future of coaching concerned the challenge of coaching across the generations.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 6, 2013
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Searching for Vitality: Coaching through the Lenses of Adult Development Theory and Research

Research on adult development strongly suggests that competence and productivity do not significantly decline as a function of age. The priorities of adults, however, do appear to change.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On November 5, 2013
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Gen Y Leaders, Boomer Coach

The Gen Y CEOs are the founders who have been able to negotiate roles during start-up funding and are therefore able to form the company to their own ideals. These Gen Y CEOs differ greatly from their older and more established counterparts.

Posted by Sandy Smith
On October 31, 2013
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Coaching Across the Generations: Questions to Ponder Based on Research/Theory

The following set of “animation” questions concern the implications of adult development theory for the professional of coaching.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On October 29, 2013
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The Social and Cultural Characteristics of Generational Age Groups

Any study regarding the challenge of coaching men and women from all age ranges must take into account social and cultural aspects of age groups that broadly define who these people are and what they represent.

Posted by Gary Quehl
On October 28, 2013
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The Book Shelf I: George Vaillant’s Triumphs of Experience

Triumphs of Experience book is special because it not only traces the lives of Grant Study men over 70 years, it is one of the first books to portray the life of men during their “elderly” years.

Posted by Bill Bergquist
On October 28, 2013
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