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Coaching

Maximizing Potential: Why a Coach Can Be Key to Organizational Success

We have all heard, and maybe even used, the phrase ourselves: “let’s get them some coaching on…” That usually means advice – call it mentoring or counseling, consulting or guidance, advisory or directive counsel, it is not coaching. In these circumstances the advisor, whatever their contracted or relational role, is involved in imparting wisdom and guidance to the person they believe needs help, whether asked to do so or not. They are providing a potential

Potentials News and Blog November 21, 2024
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Coaching

Bringing the “Unthought Known” to Life

Coaching & Consulting: Bringing the “Unthought Known” to Life We all have them, unthought knowns, that is. “What the heck is she talking about?”, you may well ask. In this book, The Shadow of the Object, Christopher Bollas both coins and defines “the unthought known” as…  “…preverbal, unschematized early experience that may determine one’s behavior unconsciously, barred to conscious thought [1].” To add a couple of other concepts of knowing to those raised in our

Potentials News and Blog October 14, 2024
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Newsletters

October 2024: America and Coaching Culture

America has become a “Coaching Culture.” A few years ago, no one heard of the expression “coach” other than in relationship to sports.  But today, coaching is one of the fastest growing industries in the country.  The coaching industry has grown by an average of 20% per year in the past five years. It started with individuals, but now companies, churches and schools use professional coaches to help strengthen their people and organizations. Why? What

Potentials News and Blog October 9, 2024
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Book Review

Book Review: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Summary of Key Points: Thinking, Fast and Slow  By Daniel Kahneman  The divisions we experience in society seem to have permeated every institution that intersects with our lives: home, business, church, schools, etc. At Potentials, we work with our clients to develop evidence-based practices for engaging one another thoughtfully and respectfully, with the goal of transforming the larger contexts or our lives through the intentional, humble, and curious engagement of those different from ourselves.   In

Potentials News and Blog October 4, 2024
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Consulting

Partnership Place …

They Call it Partnership Place – and it is! A successful collaboration between UCC and PCUSA congregations! Don’t tell us Michigan is not one of Simon Sinek’s early adopters! Absolutely committed to their progressive presence and similarities in social justice foci, St. John’s United Church of Christ and Westminster Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Michigan are joining together in a joint witness agreement* to augment their presence in Jackson, in service to their city. Jackson has

Potentials News and Blog September 16, 2024
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Newsletters

September 2024: Consolidation – Coming?

Consolidation – Coming To An Organization Near You? “Hey! I have an idea! Let’s move into one of our houses, after selling the other, combine finances, and work out the rest later,†said no one who wanted the relationship to last. Organizations, however, do it all the time. They approach consolidations as “mergers†with the “acquisition†word hanging in the air. Immediately there is an adversarial relationship set up – who is acquiring whom? Whose

Potentials News and Blog September 13, 2024

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