nowhere academy

The art of breakthrough coaching

Breakthrough Coaching for Performance

In fast moving, changing business environments organisations need to learn and change faster and with more flexibility than their competitors. This means that learning and development needs to be as close to operational activity and as in the moment as possible. This requires a leadership capability to coach people formally and informally on the job in a way that engages others and releases their inherent potential. Coaching is a focused approach to personal development through job related performance.

This training is designed for leaders and coaches who wish to create breakthrough in levels of individual and team performance.

Breakthrough Coaching for Innovation

Innovative ideas seem to come out of nowhere. They provide fresh, insightful answers to old questions and open up new pathways to meeting customer needs, increasing speed to market or reducing costs. When they are discovered they release a huge amount of energy inside the organisation. The key is to become more aware of the conditions required to bring forward these ideas. With awareness, the knowledge and wisdom of our people can be tapped into and on finding answers to the questions that stand between us and exciting futures. Coaching for Innovation introduces leaders to the skills required to breakthrough and supports them over a three0month period while they experiment back in the business on real projects.

This training is designed for leaders and managers who know they need to innovate in order to deliver against their strategies. It gives them an experience of going beyond current ways of thinking and working to discover how to develop the necessary environments for creative breakthrough

Breakthrough Coaching for Systemic Change

Coaching others to see an organisation as a system of interconnected parts enables leaders to manage change more effectively. By being more aware of the hidden dynamics that can often block change, leaders are better able to anticipate the unintended consequences of actions and break through to change with optimal benefits for the whole system.

This training is designed for senior level leaders and internal catalysts leading complex changes who wish to heighten their own systemic awareness and to develop fresh, energising ways of coaching others to release the creative potential of the system.

The Way of nowhere

The art of inspiring-innovation: 4-doors

A year-long process, which begins with a PurposeQuest, designed to support the transition from the intuitive insights of innovation into the form of innovations which return our gifts to our people. It takes place across a year as four 'doorways' which must be passed through. Each doorway lasts between three or four days. Entry is by interview and mutual agreement.

Catalyst development

Introductory modules

Catalyst development is a new and exciting field. For the first time nowhere offers an open programme in developing creative-catalyst skills. Creative-catalysts form close strategic relationships with senior leaders to help those leaders hold, build or shift the energy of individuals, teams and wider cultures - in order to achieve transformation and gain cut through on business critical issues. The modular programme offers an introduction to the nature and scope of catalyst work. It is arranged as four interrelated modules with a structured action inquiry period between each module.

Module 1: Introduction and on-boarding (3 days)

The first intensive, participative and experiential workshop helps participants understand the scope and shape of catalyst skills; and learn how to apply those skills to the real strategic business context and challenges which face their business or function at that time. It includes:

• an exploration of what we mean by working with energy
• an introduction to strategic relationship building
• identification of personal breakthrough questions as catalysts
• an overview of catalyst skills

Module 2: Catalyst skills development A (3 days)

This second experiential and participative workshop further contextualizes catalyst skills by introducing the nowhere creative-catalyst cycle. It also includes:

• further development of strategic relationship building
• an experience of the power of focused storytelling, attention and witnessing
• exploring the power of the catalyst's presence to hold, build and shift energy in the service of
• more micro skills

Module 3: Catalyst skills development B (3 days)

In the third session further develop the catalyst skills of the participants. Participants are invited to take responsibility for co-preparing and co-creating a design for the module. They are requested to hold, build and shift the energy of the training group and receiving feedback from the wider group as well as the catalyst trainers. It also includes:

Module 4: Advanced catalyst development (3 days)

This last session outlines advanced and complex catalyst skills, including:

• organisational constellations
• working with large groups
• the systemic levers of culture change
• preparation for completion
• final steps