Session 12: Coaching Your Personal Board of Directors
Steven M. Smith
Each person has a personal board of directors. The board members are the parts of ourselves that are constantly interacting inside our head. If your board members constantly bicker and fight, these inner conflicts manifest themselves as dysfunctional behavior.
Pioneering family therapist Virginia Satir used a process, a Parts Party, to aid people in accepting, transforming and integrating their parts. With their parts no longer feuding, people behaved more functionally.
We will use a variation of a Parts Party to convene a meeting of a participant’s personal board of directors, for instance a meeting between the parts who head marketing, sales, finance, education and recreation. Every participant will have a role in the process of creating and running the meetings. Our goal is to reveal the state of the interactions of today’s board members and transform them to be more functional and effective.
This session will be equally valuable to managers and individual contributors.
Join me to learn how to coach your board of directors to work together so their work adds more value to your personal and professional life.
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