Note from Sue

When I began my professional coach training through Corporate Coach U it was like falling in love anew for me. My heart beat faster with the sense of possibility for what coaching could bring to my clients. The learning fascinated me! Being in virtual classes with participants in Romania, Hong Kong, Australia, France, Ireland and other countries all at the same time was truly exhilarating. Finding coaching was like coming home for me. Since then, it’s been a delight to partner with my one-on-one leadership coaching clients.

Now I’ve discovered an additional arena of Coaching that has captured my interest. For years I’ve also facilitated leadership team development and thoroughly enjoyed these change initiatives. Recently, I’ve added the discipline of a vanguard approach to coaching the relationship within teams or partnerships of 2 and 3 people. Since January, 2007, I’ve participated in the Coach Training Institute’s Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) program of study, comprised of 5 modules over 14 full days. A critical underlying principle is “Everyone is right…partially”. The breakthrough thinking is the client is the relationship system itself as a “3rd entity”, rather than the sum of the individuals involved. (see my feature article below “What the Heck is a Third Entity?!”

I’ve fallen in love again.

In the past few months, I’ve had the honor of coaching small teams of business owners through transformative discussions about the ownership or partnership relationship and how it needs to evolve to serve their organizations. The bravery exhibited by my clients in embracing difficult change and demonstrating trust and candor has been awe-inspiring. If you are a member of a leadership team that is hungering for such a shift…I’d love to speak with you about the options to explore.

Enjoy the dynamics of the many relationships in your life and work!

Sue Edwards
President
Development-By-Design

www.development-by-design.com
www.clearingthe90dayhurdle.com
 

News & Upcoming Events

April 26, 2007
ExecuNet
Toronto Board of Trade
Top 10 Success Factors and 7 Deadly Sins For Leaders Moving to New Organizations (Click here for program outline and to sign up)

May 10th and 11th, 2007
Career Professionals of Canada
2007 STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS Conference
Stage West Hotel, Mississauga, Ontario
Sue’s Presentation - Clearing the 90-day Hurdle: Leveraging Coaching to Support New Leaders (scroll down to CM3)
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May 14, 2007
Charlotte SHRM, N.C.
Fostering Inclusive Cultures: It Takes Courageous Conversations…
Not Just Classroom Courses!

May 15- 16, 2007
Sue Edwards, Facilitator at The Innovation & Human Capital Summit
With Judith Glaser, author of Creating WE: Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking
Queen’s University, Charlotte, N.C.
www.queens.edu/innovationsummit
 

Quick Links

Sue's Blog
http://development-by-design.blogspot.com/

Leadership Onboarding Process

Feature Blog Post- Getting the Issue Out in Front…Literally!

Leadership team relationships, relationships between two interdependent functional heads and boss & direct report relationships all encounter issues. Discussion around the issues inevitably leads to pointing to a "lack of communication" as the source of the problem. And the issue often gets left there...continuing to fester between them.

Click here for full blog post on how to get the issue out in front.

http://development-by-design.blogspot.com/