Coaching Ourselves May Be the Way Forward

I attended an interesting webinar – “Peer-Coaching Groups with CoachingOurselves: A modern approach to developing leaders.”

Peer coaching with professional facilitation is an interesting concept. Although I did not hear Henry Mintzberg ever mentioning this, but it reminds me of the Quality Circles. They were popular in Japan in 1950s-1960s, made popular in the West by W. Edwards Deming especially in relation to Toyota.  Not a surprise that CoachingOurselves’ success story (still ongoing) is about their program at one Japanese company.

If you want to know more about the concept and the program, check out their website and youtube channel.

Highly recommended to managers who want to become better but cannot afford a coach. And Henry Mintzberg’s ideas are always interesting and thought-provoking (read: good for self-improvement).