IDM Publications: Presentations by Dr. Otto Laske

The presentations listed below were given at international gatherings in English or German.

CDF in the WORLD - Recent Conferences

“How Much Do You Care to Know About Your Client?”
Dr. Otto Laske's Keynote Address to the International Coaching Community Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2009. The keynote introduces behavioral coaches to developmental theory and thinking. The 2-hr keynote comprises exercises for the audience and puts the emphasis on the cognitive development of coaches and clients.
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“Exploring Work at Higher Strata”
Jan De Visch's presentation to the Global Requisite Organization Conference, Buenos Aires, October 2009. This presentation focuses on the match of Size of Role and Size of Person in the sense of Elliott Jaques. It introduces CDF, especially dialectical thinking, as the crucial criterion of effective decision making and strategy execution, distinguishing 3 main phases of cognitive development measurable in terms of dialectical thought forms.
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“Change & Crisis in Dialectical Thinking”
Otto Laske, IDM Meeting of Minds, Brussels, October 2009. This paper introduces crucial notions defining dialectical thinking generally and in business. The paper stresses in conclusion that business schools and leadership development programs are in no way prepared for the challenges of the constantly changing and complex world that is in focus in dialectical thinking. (For one thing, dialectical thinking is not taught outside of IDM.)
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Coaching in Organizations

• The Right Coach at the Right Place in the Organization

This presentation to the European Commission outlines the theoretical underpinnings of developmental coaching. It comprises social-emotional exercises and examples of different levels of cognitive development.

• The Right Person at the Right Place in the Organization

This presentation to the European Commission focuses on the need for matching two architectures in public institutions: the capability architecture and the role (responsibility) architecture.

• Insights Into Coaching From Developmental Theory

This presentation to the Coaching Psychology Conference, London, 2006, details the three CDF perspectives on clients: social-emotional, cognitive, clinical, and their interrelationship.

Governance and Leadership

• Post-Bureaucratic Management: An adult-developmental perspective

This presentation to the EMF conference is focused on the cultural stages of governance in public institutions and on ways of assessing the individual-collective dimensions of large bureaucracies.

Applications of Transformational Thinking

• Transformational Thinking in Business

This handout from the January 19, 2009 teleseminar describes new ways to support business leadership based on applied developmental theory.

Deutsche Vorträge zum Coaching

• Persönlichkeitspotentiale: Ihre Messung und Verwendung in CDF

This is a presentation in German for the Hochschule fuer Wirtschaft, Lucerne, on the relationship of developmental potential and innovation in organizations.

• Einleitung in das Entwicklungscoaching: Ein Blick auf das Constructive-Developmental Framework

This is German course material for an introduction to developmental coaching, with emphasis on the social-emotional dimension of capability.