For over three years, Gallwey trained the managers of the Coca Cola Company in the skills of coaching.  He has done the same for Annhauser Busch, IBM, KPMG, AT&T and other smaller companies.  Each of these trainings were customized to meet the needs of the particular client at the particular time.

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A: Just one, but the light bulb has to really want to change

Tim Gallwey, the former tennis coach who’s now an executive coach, is the author of a series of books on the inner game. In his book, The Inner Game of Work, Tim introduces a process called transposing. It’s a process I’d recommend to my friend the deputy and to anyone else who is trying to influence a challenging boss.

Here’s how it works. First, assume the stance of the other person. You’re not talking about them. You are talking as if you are actually them. From the stance of the other person, ask and consider the possible answers to three questions:

* What do I think?
* How do I feel?
* What do I want?

Play with the answers. Don’t stop at your first or even second response. Make an effort to go deeper. What’s going on in the environment that causes you (still taking the boss’s stance) to think the way you do? What information or circumstances are you aware of that shape your thinking? Based on what you think, how do you feel? What’s the emotional state that comes from that thought process? Are you confident, nervous, frustrated, secure, insecure? Try to get as clear as you can about the connection between the thought process and the resulting emotional state. So, after you’re clear on what you think and how you feel (remember, you’re still in the stance of your boss), what do you want? The answer could be around something very tangible like a particular result or it could be something less tangible like recognition or being seen as important.

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It all goes back to Timothy Gallwey. Before Gallwey, coaches were people who wore whistles around their necks.

Coaches helped people get better at physical tasks. That meant they mostly dealt with sweaty people, except for swim coaches who dealt mostly with chlorine-blind people.

That changed in 1974, the year Gallwey published The Inner Game of Tennis. He shifted the focus from what was happening on the outside, to what was happening in the mind of the tennis player.

The rest, as the saying goes, is history. Gallwey tells the story of the Inner Game on his web site. It’s compelling, but it won’t answer the question about whether you should hire a coach.

What’s important about the Gallwey story is that The Inner Game was the faint beginning of what is now a hot field: coaching. Now there are coaches for all kinds of things that don’t involve sweaty physical activities or even whistles.

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Gallwey is the acknowledged master of the performance coaches. He is surprisingly light on goals and his book (1975/1986) is full of remarks such as, ‘simply involved in the exploration of his latent capacities’ (p110); ‘time competition is identical with true co-operation’ (p112). Gallwey focuses on dealing with ‘freak-outs’, of which, he says, ‘there are three kinds: regret about past events; fear or uncertainty about the future; and dislike of a present event or situation’ (p116).

You can read the entire article, “Should Performance Coaches Focus on Performance?” here.

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Finally, for people interested in a different approach to coaching, I recommend Tim Gallwey’s The Inner Game of Work. Not only does this book apply Gallwey’s inner game theories to the workplace, but it also includes a personal analysis tool in which he suggests that you think like the CEO of your own life. How many shares have you given away?

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“Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance.  It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” Timothy Gallwey, Author of The Inner Game series of books

Gallwey’s definition comes from his background in sports coaching which he used to develop his “inner game” concept across numerous fields from sport to music to the workplace.  His reference to performance is a key component of how coaching is defined today.

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