Integral Coach #164: Adam Klein - Growing Leaders, One Seed at a Time!

Join us on The Coaching Podcast with our guest coach, Adam Klein, as we unpack essential topics like the "Leader as Coach," the journey of living your vocation, and navigating resistance to unlock team cohesion and inspiration. Discover how integral coaching invites individuals to embrace their full selves—mind, body, and spirit—and how coaches can empower their team members to take responsibility, commit to each other, and work more efficiently together. We'll delve into the art of attunement and response in effective coaching. From practical tips on supporting shy or introverted clients to insights on the mind-body connection and strategies for handling resistance, this episode is packed with valuable knowledge for both new and experienced coaches. 

Check out the highlights;

• 1.08: Text or Call? 
• 2.13: What is integral coaching? It is an invitation for someone to discover and lean into their vocation/purpose! To include all of yourself, your thinking world, your feeling world, and your sensing world.
• 3.13: What can a coach do if their team members are bringing "all" of their problems to work? It is important to have the person consider:
  • How can you step into more responsibility? More ownership when you show up as your true self? More self-leadership?
  • How can you support the team? Working together more efficiently?
• 5.04: How did you become a coach? 
• 7.15: How can people uncover their vocation?
  • Acknowledge that that voice is there and then listen to your inner voice.
• 9.19: What makes a great coach?
  • Attunement (to self and others) - listening beyond the words
  • Response (to your client in a way that is helpful) 
• 13.11: How to coach a person who is shy, reserved, or introverted?
  • Shift the physical dynamics, environment, or space to create new insights
• 16.09: What are your thoughts on the mind and body connection?
  • Relax into the discomfort, breathe into the pain (stop trying to PUSH THROUGH it)
  • PAUSE, take a breath, and let's "see what happens", take one more step!
  • Remember WHY am I doing this? What's my commitment? 
• 18.18: How can you help coaches who are experiencing resistance? 
  • "What is the resistance teaching me?" "How do I befriend resistance?"
• 20.28: Do you think that this next generation is internally motivated?
  •  Yes! People want it but don't necessarily know how to access it.
  • The missing piece is commitment! 
• 22.09: How can you help a team be more cohesive?
  •  It comes back to being aligned with the team's commitment! 
• 23.29: What's your purpose?
  • "letting go of everything that is not love and becoming all flame bringing healing and light to others!"
• 24.01: What disruptive coaching idea do you have that will change the way we coach in 2030?
  • Coaching is for people who can listen holistically and respond generatively! 
• 25.22: Do you think anyone can become a coach?
• 26.14: What do you mean by 'Leader as Coach?'
  • "Being the wind under the wing."
•  27.54: New Venture West Coach Training has three main tracks:
  • 1) Personal cultivation: A coach's way of being - how does the coach show up? (the coach is the soil and you have to cultivate the soil)
  • 2) Learning competencies and skillful coaching: Coaching skills (plant the seeds of coaching skills such as listening, and making requests)
  • 3) Learning within a community: Dual track is practiced within a cohort so that you can all learn from each other
• 30.02: Three top tips on how coaches can respond generatively.
  • 1) Attunement: Who is this person now? (Not, who do we think they are!)
  • 2) Notice our skillfulness (What's my own range in being able to respond?)
  • 3) Who am I learning from?

To learn more about becoming a workplace coach or advancing your coaching skills, visit: www.coachem.cc or email Sarah: [email protected] 

About Adam Klein, PCC, Managing Director

Adam is a dedicated leader committed to creating a more just, sustainable, creative, and loving world. He brings a wealth of experience to NVW, having previously led the creation of a first-in-class business solution to combat global slavery and re-launched a San Francisco Bay Area center for integral spiritual formation. At NVW, Adam focuses on integrating the organization’s purpose and bringing it to fruition. He oversees strategy, technology, and the flow of various internal work streams while also supporting graduates and ensuring ICF compliance. Adam is a driving force behind the Professional Coaching Course, regularly leading the program and hosting orientation events in San Francisco. He is also the creator and host of the NVW podcast “Stepping In” and runs his own business coaching leaders and individuals. With a Master’s degree in Engineering from Santa Clara University, Adam’s journey has also led him to immerse himself in the world of Ironman triathlons and ultra-running, providing him with a deeper understanding of the importance of the body and the integral nature of being human. Beyond his professional pursuits, Adam is a published poet who finds inspiration through his practice of ultra-running and extended time in the wild. He resides in Petaluma, CA, with his wife Robyn, and their daughter Genesis

Connect with Adam

Website: https://newventureswest.com 
Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kleinadam/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/new-ventures-west/ 
Insta: @newventureswest