IDM Programs for Professional Practice
Use of the Constructive Developmental Framework revolutionizes all professions in which work with adults is at the forefront of attention. This includes coaching, consulting, leadership development, company restructuring, talent management, mediation, team building, psychotherapy, and other fields focused on human capability. Professionals in these fields are presently becoming more and more aware that a strictly behavioral approach to work and competences used at work is too narrow for developing and implementing valid criteria for evaluating abilities needed to innovate, achieve market breakthroughs, and even sustaining profitability. It is here that IDM’s teachings open up an entirely new direction of capability development.
The IDM Programs for Professional Practice are designed to inform work of professional process consultants interacting with CEOs and managers in an effort to help them become more effective leaders. All professional practice programs offered have their root in the three constitutive dimensions of Laske’s Constructive Developmental Framework (CDF): the cognitive, social-emotional, and psychological one. When these three dimensions are seen as forming an organized whole, and relationships are established between data CDF assessments yield, an entirely new outlook on organizational and administrative work and work abilities emerges. This new outlook is rooted in a distinction between Size of Person and Size of Role, social-emotional and cognitive development, and the characteristics of a person’s psychology at work.
The IDM Professional Practice Program comprises the following offerings:
- Gateway Live and Self Study Introductory course on the Constructive Developmental Framework that updates professionals’ insight on human work capability to a professional level.
- Integrative Perspectives on Enabling Leadership Transitions – a course on designing organizational role structures based on notions of added value, comprising an introduction to dialectical thinking.
- Developmental Interviewing Intensive A course that enables participants to bolster their listening and communication skills based on skilled semi-structured social-emotional and cognitive interviewing.
In addition to these stand-alone courses, the IDM Professional Practice Program offers two entirely unique certification programs, in:
- Evidence Based Coaching Program – a certificate program for coaches who want to work based on empirical data about their clients in the sense of “evidence based” coaching
- Dialectical Thought Form Framework Certification – a certificate program for professionals who want to develop their present thinking to a higher level beyond formal logical thinking, based on dialectical thinking.
The two certification programs, both of which are taught through live distance learning classes, can be characterized as follows:
The Evidence Based Coaching Program teaches coaching based on empirical assessment data giving insight into clients’ developmental profile, in contrast to coaching in which the coach does not deeply care to know the client in terms of his or her present work capability and future potential. In this program, the student decides which of the three CDF dimensions — social-emotional (Module A), cognitive (Module B), or psychological (Module C) — to study in depth. Once the first module has been completed, the student enters a developmental interviewing intensive to prepare for a written case study (Program One), with an option to do 3 additional case studies in Program Two. Students earn one of three certificates: the “Certificate of Social-emotional Coaching”, the “Certificate of Cognitive Coaching”, or the “Certificate of Behavioral Coaching”.
Certification in Using the Dialectical Thought Form Framework is offered to professionals who are aware of the importance of *thinking* and of the limitations of formal logical thinking in dealing with the complexities of life and work, especially work in organizations. The certification courses address the fact that human thinking develops over the entire life span, and that by learning to use dialectical thought forms individuals drastically enhance their ability to manage complexity in whatever domain of endeavor they may choose. The program comprises three steps: introduction to dialectical thinking, rehearsal of dialectical thought forms in an action learning setting, and immersion in a particular field of practice in which to bring to bear dialectical thinking.
Those entering the certification programs described as well as those registering for stand-alone courses have two important resources at their disposal:
- they can ask for a professional CDF assessment of their own developmental profile (see /services-assessment.php)
- they can study in depth the subject matter taught at IDM by acquiring two IDM textbooks on adult development, found at /publications-idm-press.php.
In our experience, these two resources completely and dramatically change professionals’ attitude to their clients, thinking, and degree of effectiveness with clients.
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