Archive for Vikki Brock
Vikki Brock, MCC, is Chief Pot Stirrer of the one-of-a-kind Virtual Museum of Coaching here at The Coaching Commons. Based on interviews about the evolution of coaching with over 175 coaching 'influencers' she also contributes mightily to our Coaching Hall of Fame. Though some may consider 'The History of Coaching' a dry topic, Vikki believes 'the roots determine the fruits' and promises the museum won't be a stuffy place. Vikki is also the only executive and leadership coach we know who supports clients from a 45’ sailboat named Cuidado, moored on the ship canal in Seattle, Washington.
Dale Carnegie - Success Merchant of the 1930’s
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer who published “How to Win Friends and Influence People” in the late 1930s during the aftermath of the Depression. According to Deloshon and Potter (1982), Carnegie’s 1937 book stated that “training is rooted in learning by doing” and “based on self-assuredness and acceptance of oneself as a person […]
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16May2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Malcolm Knowles - Self-Directed Learning as a Foundation for Coaching
Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997) was an American adult educator and acknowledged as the founder of adult education as a separate discipline.
Thanks to Jim Clarkson for this nomination. You can read more about Malcolm Knowles in Jim’s comment of May 15, 2008.
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15May2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
1979 Book - Coaching For Improved Work Performance
This is the book that started my collection of old coaching books. In the late 1990s I was helping my sister move her family across country. As we were packing her books, I came across this among those she was sending to charity. She said she had attended a course on this in the 1980s […]
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12May2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Edgar Schein: Process Consultant or Coach?
Edgar Schein (born 1928) is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management who is credited with inventing the term “corporate culture.” In 1969, Schein wrote Process Consultation which introduced the concept of process consultation that describes one of three roles of the organizational consultant. The process consultation modes contain many of the characteristics of […]
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9May2008 | Vikki Brock | 4 comments | Continued
1979 Book - Coaching: A Management Skill for Improving Individual Performance
The author, Arthur Deegan, had been delivering workshops on this topic for ten years before he wrote this book. Even in 1979, Deegan was talking about “the situation of many organizations - the rapid overall growth necessitating unusually rapid movement of key personnel from one position to another with the feeling that all of them […]
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5May2008 | Vikki Brock | 1 comment | Continued
Napoleon Hill - Pioneer Motivational Coach
Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883-November 8, 1970) was the American author of Think and Grow Rich (1937), one of the earliest and best selling personal-success books of all time. Chapters in this book include: imagination, organized planning, persistence, power of a mastermind group, and the sixth sense as the door to wisdom.
Though it wasn’t called […]
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2May2008 | Vikki Brock | 3 comments | Continued
1981 Book - Effective Coaching: A Psychological Approach
In my pursuit of coaching books written in the 1970s and 1980s, I came across this book and ordered it used from Amazon. Imagine my surprise when I opened the book and saw it was written for sports coaches by sports psychologists. The authors state that coaching know-how includes “three interrelated components: knowledge, competencies or […]
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28Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
John Wooden - Greatest Coach of All Time in Any Sport
John Wooden (born October 14, 1910) was coach of the UCLA Bruins basketball team from 1948 to 1976 and the most winning coach in basketball history. You might ask, what does this have to do with coaching outside of sports? Check out Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and 12 Lessons for Leadership(www.coachjohnwooden.com/puramidpdf.pdf). Both speak to self […]
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25Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 6 comments | Continued
1979 Book - A Manager’s Guide to Coaching
David Megginson and Tom Boydell wrote this booklet for coaches for managers and trainers of managers in the United Kingdom. In this, they defined coaching as: “a process in which a manager, through direct discussion and guided activity, helps a colleague to learn to solve a problem, or to do a task better than would […]
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21Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 1 comment | Continued
Peter Drucker: Death of a Coach
Peter Drucker (November 19, 1909-November 11, 2005) was a management guru of Austrian descent. Back in the fifties and sixties, he said a manager’s job was to develop the staff. His 1969 book The Effective Executive is deemed a classic.
Byrne (2005) wrote on his passing:
November 11, 2005, at the age of 95, Peter F. Drucker died peacefully in […]
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18Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
1971 Book - Coaching, Learning, and Action
Bill C. Lovin and Emery Reber Casstevens wrote this reference book about on-the-job coaching for all managers and supervisors to learn the necessary skills to develop their subordinates. What is interesting about this book is that it specifies that the writing is ”without psychological jargon” and addresses how adults learn.
A cartoon on page 162 describes ”if he deliberately plans […]
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13Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Martin Heidegger: Philosopher Extraordinaire
Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 - May 26, 1976) was a German existential philosopher. His inclusion in the Hall of Fame is due to Heidegger’s theories about the nature of biological existence, language, and human action, which influenced Flores and the development of ontological coaching.
Heidegger used the concept of ‘transparency’ to refer to what is so […]
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13Apr2008 | Vikki Brock | 1 comment | Continued
Fernando Flores - From political refugee to coach pioneer to senator
Fernando Flores (born 1943 in Chile) is the originator of an ontological approach to coaching, and mentor to Julio Olalla, Rafael Echevarria, and James Flaherty. Influenced by Maturana, Heidegger and Searle, he produced a new understanding of language and communication and, according to Alan Sieler, invented the term ontological coaching.
Flores was an important minister in […]
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28Mar2008 | Vikki Brock | 9 comments | Continued
Abraham Maslow - Founder of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology
Abraham Maslow, (1980-1970) most known for his ‘hierarchy of needs’, is a key influencer on the field of coaching. Maslow, and other humanistic psychologists, believed that people were free, creative individuals with an enormous capacity for growth and self-realization. He believed that all have a natural drive to healthiness and self-fulfillment, which he called the […]
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22Mar2008 | Vikki Brock | 2 comments | Continued
Tim Gallwey - From Tennis Coaching to Business Coaching
Tim Gallwey (born 1938 in California, USA) blended humanistic and transpersonal psychology principles with performance models from sports in 1974 to create the Inner Game model of coaching. His philosophy was that “the opponent within is more formidable than the one outside.”
Sir John Whitmore and Graham Alexander, coaching pioneers from the United Kingdom, introduced Gallwey’s […]
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21Mar2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
What was happening in coaching in the 1940s?
Coaching in business during the 1940s was performed by psychologists in under the umbrella of ‘developmental counseling’. RHR International, a consulting firm composed primarily by psychologists, has been providing developmental counseling, also known as executive coaching, since the late 1940s. According to Edwin Nevis, a consulting psychologist and one of the pioneers in […]
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21Mar2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Coaching - What was happening in the 1930s?
Coaching in business in the 1930s was internal coaching with managers or supervisors acting as coaches to their staff. Tony Grant (2004) discovered the first paper in English about coaching which was written by Gorby in 1937.
Gorby described how older employees coached newer employees in reducing waste in order to increase profit […]
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15Mar2008 | Vikki Brock | 3 comments | Continued
Alfred Adler - Grandfather of Coaching?
Alfred Adler (February 7, 1870 – May 28, 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor and psychologist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. Linda Page, founder of the Adler Learning International, described Adler as the “grandfather of coaching, though he never used the word in his work”. Though Adler was one of the co-founders of psychoanalytic psychology with […]
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25Feb2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Where did coaching come from? The Roots and the Players
Thanks to all for attending The Coaching Commons first Virtual Dialogue call on Tuesday February 12, 2008. What we talked about were the root disciplines that had the most influence on the evolution of coaching. Click here to see an evolution timeline for the root disciplines of coaching. For a mind map of the key players […]
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14Feb2008 | Vikki Brock | 8 comments | Continued
Thomas Leonard - A Masterful Synthesizer Who Popularized Coaching
When you think of the International Coach Federation, Coach U, the International Association of Coaches, and CoachVille who’s name comes to mind? The visionary behind all of these was Thomas Leonard. Generous and competitive, Thomas was a synthesizer of ideas.
I remember hearing about his Attraction Program in 1997 and signing up knowing that it […]
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11Feb2008 | Vikki Brock | 0 comments | Continued
Carl Rogers - a Key Influence on the Coaching Field?
Coaching is all of what Carl Rogers thought therapy should be. Carl Rogers was an Esalen psychotherapist who was a leader in humanistic psychology and the Human Potential Movement. His greatest influence on the coaching field was his client-centered approach, though he died in 1987 just before coaching took root.
His approach was about the […]
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8Feb2008 | Vikki Brock | 8 comments | Continued
Sir John Whitmore - Race Car Driver, Business Owner, and Coach
Sir John Whitmore, of the United Kingdom, is a former champion professional race-car driver, a businessman, a sports psychologist and a pioneer in the coaching field. John got started in coaching in the early 1980’s when he introduced Tim Gallwey’s “Inner Game” techniques used in the sports world in Europe. In 1992 John published “Coaching […]
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8Feb2008 | Vikki Brock | 2 comments | Continued
