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Executive coaching is definitely not a game, but the issues clients bring to us are finite and infinite games – ones you try to “win” and ones you try to keep playing.  It’s like the image above. If I had named it “My Mind” you would make the translation and possibly think “She’s feeling scattered and crazy.” The art piece is resolved in your mind (finite game). If I leave the art piece untitled, you can keep looking at it wondering what it is. Each time you look at it, based on the time in your life, the issues you are experiencing, etc., you might see something different (infinite game.) So, how does this relate to coaching our clients?

Consider the best training session you ever attended. What made it so good? What constitutes a good training/learning experience for you? In this week's article, Royce Holladay talks about the patterns that set the conditions for deep learning.

Over the last several weeks, Mary Nations and Royce Holladay have shared several blog articles about Generative Engagement.This week, they conclude their series with a look at where they've been and where you can take it next. 

This is the next in a series of blog articles where Royce Holladay and Mary Nations explore dynamics of Generative Engagement. The specific focus of this piece is to apply an HSD lens to patterns of diversity and engagement.

This is the next in a series of blog articles where Royce Holladay and Mary Nations explore dynamics of Generative Engagement. Today we use an HSD lens to understand culture as patterns, and give a look at how you can create and shape a culture of generative engagement.

This is next in a series of blogs where Royce Holladay and Mary Nations explore dynamics of Generative Engagement.

This is the third in a series of blogs where Royce Holladay and Mary Nations explore the dynamics of Generative Engagement. In last week’s blog, I explored a set of conditions that Mary and I believe can shape system-wide patterns of purposeful, meaningful dialogue; productivity across differences; and highly adaptive relationships. This week I want to share some thoughts we have had about what can happen if those conditions get out of balance with each other or when any of the conditions exclude individuals or groups in the system. As you read, consider how you see each situation play out in the systems where you live, work, and play.