Invite CHANGE

5 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 5 INVI TECHANGE of new ideas and possibilities. In this latter category, a humble and courageous leader seeks to uncover habits, preferences, assumptions, and biases that block perceiving the ways that the environment and customer desires have shifted, and change has gone unnoticed, resulting in solutions no longer quite fitting the needs. Key to this generative work, according to Harvey, is a leader’s journey to their “authentic self.” “Not as identified by somebody else, but as identified by the leaders themselves,” she explains. “Who am I? What matters to me? What are my values and principles by which I make decisions? What liberates my own innate creativity?” From this first step of self-awareness, leaders more accurately seek to understand the answers to these same questions of their leaders who they want to be autonomous and fulfilled through their desired creativity and results. “A generative coaching engagement with an individual or a team is structured, first and foremost, as an awareness activity,” Harvey continues. “’ Do you know who you are and are becoming?’ I know it sounds like a very simple statement, but the question is not answered very well by most people. They know what they do, but they’re less connected in a deliberate way, in a purposeful way, to the reason they work for that organization, the reason they choose to be a leader, the contribution they want to make that’s congruent with their core value system and their guiding principles. And, in many ways, they’ve lost sight of their “why” and how that aligns with the “why” their enterprise exists,” she describes. “So, this personal reflection could be summarized with the phrase mindset, defined by seven essential elements: frame of reference, attitude, core values, beliefs, guiding principles, habits, and routine actions. Unless invited to consider these elements on purpose, most leaders operate through a mindset that is unconscious. Since a person’s mindset influences how they show up, how they interact and how they make choices, making that conscious and deliberate decision becomes foundational to invite change and adopt approaches that sustain excellence, no matter the level of complexity or pace of change in their environment.” “All coaching is learning, growth, and change – all of it. I don’t care what specialty you’re in; you’re helping an individual recognize that they want something different – they want different