IDM CAN MOVE YOUR PRACTICE FORWARD!
By Otto Laske
A sincere welcome to 2006 to our readers! As is true for us at IDM, you will be sharpening your goals and ways to achieve them. WE CAN HELP YOU!
We know the benefits of understanding your clients developmentally, and we know what it takes to learn the necessary techniques. We also know that developmental thinking doesn’t come to you all at once, in a fell swoop. As shown in Chapter 9 of MEASURING HIDDEN DIMENSIONS — the new textbook on developmental stages that comes out in paperback on January 23rd (see HD Book and HD Ebooks) — there are 7 steps you need to take in order to fully leverage developmental knowledge.
The first three steps have to do with increasingly recognizing the relevance of your understanding of your clients' social-emotional and cognitive grasp of the world. The remaining four steps concern the refining of professional uses of developmental information through practice. In 2006, we will be particularly concerned with the first three steps: preparing coaches and consultants to leverage developmental knowledge!
IDM JANUARY 2006 NEWS
MEASURING HIDDEN DIMENSIONS volume 1, on developmental stages, is now on sale both in the US and the UK. Get to know the book at HD Book and HD Ebooks). You can earn a free copy by writing a 2-page review delivered by an agreed-upon date. The ebook sells for $46.95 (Euro 38.75), the book for $59.95 (Euro 49.50). Write to
to obtain a copy, or visit our website.
IDM 2006 GOALS
In 2006, we are focusing on the following four goals:
1. Helping beginners to think developmentally
As this year matures, you will see IDM increasingly active in supporting the beginners in developmental coaching. We will do this in two ways:
- Short (4-hr) courses in learning to think developmentally given every month
- Medium-long (8-hr) courses in developmental interviewing starting every 2 months
2. Continuing to build community
With the IDM Press Flagship book, a textbook for Program One, now available through IDM Press, we continue to build a community of developmental practitioners of process consultation and coaching. Based on this book, participants in our courses will learn to speak a common language, not only in class but in their practice and communications!
3. Offering a free teleforum on WHO ARE YOU AS A COACH OR CONSULTANT?
If you tell us how you view and approach your client, we can tell you, based on our developmental thinking, who you ARE as a practitioner. This has nothing to do with mind reading. It simply means that the way you “paint” your client is intimately linked to how you see yourself as a person and a professional, and that shedding light on the way you model clients is highly beneficial to your practice.
The free teleforum comes attached with an offer to assess developmentally “Who you are as a practitioner” for an affordable fee.
4. Publishing volume 2 of Measuring Hidden Dimensions
Volume 2, now in progress, is the second textbook for IDM students. The volume is focused on the cognitive development of coach/consultant and clients, and helps students find out HOW TO ASSIST CLIENTS IN THEIR COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.
As is apparent from Volume 1, there is a close link between performance, on one hand, and developmental level and cognitive profile, on the other. Therefore, expert coaches strongly focus attention on this link, by using actionable developmental knowledge learned at IDM.
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INVITATION 1: Free Developmental Assessment
Win a free developmental assessment for yourself or your client, by sharing with us a 1-page profile of your client.
As you come to understand by reading the e-book or paperback version of MEASURING HIDDEN DIMENSIONS, what we know about our clients is a reflection of how we presently think about ourselves. We herewith invite you to send us a one-pager about how you see one of your clients. We, the Editors, will provide personal feedback both about yourself and your client to the first ten readers who respond. Whoever sends us the most cogent client profile, will win a free developmental assessment either for herself (himself) or a client.
Here are the parameters to take into account when writing your one-pager: Describe as precisely as you can:
- how you yourself "see" your client, in terms of the client’s potential
- how your client sees her-/himself in his/her environment in relation to individual others or the organization as a whole
- how your client is using the coaching in terms of self-directed progress
- what you pay particular attention to in the client’s language.
Please mail your client profile to
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INVITATION 2: Free Teleforum on Who You Are as a Professional
It takes some critical thinking about how you approach clients to become aware of your own assumptions about yourself as a coach. The purpose of the IDM teleforum is to expand your developmental perspective through the window of your current view of your client. Our free teleforums can help you to gain some distance from your own assumptions. In these teleforums — either in English or German — we introduce you to developmental ideas based on hearing you describe your way of working with, and your view of, your particular clients.
Free IDM Teleforum, Winter 2006
“Who Are You as a Coach and Consultant?” |
| English |
Monday Jan. 23, 2006 Register
Monday Feb. 20, 2006 Register |
12 noon EST (9 am PST) |
| German |
Monday Jan. 23, 2006 Register
Monday Feb. 20, 2006 Register |
17 CET (11 AM EST) |
INVITATION 3: Teleclass on Learning to Listen Developmentally in Coaching
Attend a 4-hr post-graduate Teleclass in “Mastering Developmental Listening in Coaching” starting January 23rd, 06 (English) and February 10, 06 (German), respectively, at 9 PM Eastern (6 PM PST).
In this class, we focus on how you presently listen to your clients and give you insight into WHAT YOU COULD BE LISTENING FOR IF YOU WERE THINKING DEVELOPMENTALLY. We show you how to be more perceptive about what you hear, and what you can do to assist your client.
In addition to the sessions listed below, subsequent sessions are offered Feb. 20, 2006 (English) and March 10, 2006 (German), respectively; please let us know of your interest in these later sessions by writing to
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Mondays, Jan 23 – Feb 13
9 pm EST (6 pm PST) |
$179
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| German |
Freitags, Feb 10 – March 3, 06
18-20 CET (12 noon EST) |
Euro 150
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INVITATION 4: Introduction to Developmental Coaching
IDM's Gateway course has proven itself as the best introduction to developmental coaching in North America. Consider joining the next session that starts in February 2006.
Tuesdays, 8 x 2 hr sessions
February 7 to March 28, 2006
1-3 pm EST (18 CET)
Tuition: $495 (approx. Euro 400)
For more information please email
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To register: Register for Gateway
INVITATION 5: Developmental Interviewing Practicum
For those of you who have previously attended Gateway, we offer a Practicum entirely dedicated to the art and science of developmental interviewing.
The four-week 2-hr class gives participants the opportunity of rehearsing their interviewing along developmental lines, with feedback from the class and the instructor. We will role-play coach and client for the sake of gaining insight into WHO THE CLIENT IS. Participants will practice interviewing in their own practice, and report their experiences to the class.
| 8-hour Teleseries in Developmental Interviewing, Winter 2006 |
Four Wednesdays February 1 to March 1, 06
- 16-18 CET for European students Register
- 8-10 pm EST for North American students Register
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$349 (approx. Euro 290)
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About IDM Press
In launching IDM Press, we have made a commitment to building an international community of developmental practitioners who speak a common language and are enriching the developmental perspective from a multitude of different viewpoints. We see the Press as the voice of IDM in terms of our teaching and consulting.
With Otto Laske as Editor in Chief, and Nancy Moynihan as Assistant Editor, we intend to make IDM Press into a place where professionals go for deeper questions and profound answers.
We are planning to realease four volumes in the Measuring Hidden Dimensions series:
- MHD: The art and science of fully engaging adults
- MHD: The art and science of cognitive development
- MHD: The art and science of changing workplace behavior
- MHD: The art and science of fully understanding your clients (case studies).
All books are textbooks / handbooks designed for practical use.
Next Issue
The February IDM newsletter will contain two further reviews of our flagship book Measuring Hidden Dimensions. The first will be by Diane Menendez, PhD, the second by Jenny Edwards, PhD. Diane is a well known executive coach with strong spiritual interests. Jenny is an instructor at Fielding University. A further review is being prepared by Tony Grant PhD who directs the academic coaching program at the University of Sydney, Australia. His review will appear in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, London, UK.
If you would like to review Measuring Hidden Dimensions please contact
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