The document discusses resources, structures, and domains as they relate to leadership coaching. It defines resources as physical, intellectual, emotional, and social. Structures are how leaders access resources, like pipes that channel resources from one place to another. Structures can enable or restrict access to resources. Domains are the places where structures deliver resources. The goal of exploring these concepts is to help leaders and coaches understand how to better access and manage resources.

1. Navigating through
complex organisations
RESOURCES, STRUCTURES & DOMAINS
The ‘Field’ of the Professional Leadership Coaching Model
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2. RESOURCES:
leadership & coaching
• Coaches explore resources with clients,
to enable clients to develop a
‘resourceful’ mindset.
• Leaders need to access resources, for
and on behalf of, their teams
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3. Our Acronym for Resources is:
PIES
• Types:
–Physical
–Intellectual
–Emotional
–Social
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4. Resources can also vary by
number and location
• Number:
– Individual/single
– Group/Team/Many
• Location:
– Inner/internal
– Outer/external
• Visible and invisible
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5. STRUCTURES: how we access
resources
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6. Structures enable or deny
access to resources
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7. Turn on resources?
Turn off? Measure….
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8. Leaks & breaks?
As a leader or coach explore options:
ways to patch or replace in order to
better access resources
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9. Pipes create connections from
one place/person to another
• Pipes channel fluids or gases (resources).
Metaphorically, they enable possibility,
creation or success. There may be complexity
in accessing resources
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10. Too much complexity?
“Everything should be
made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.”
Albert Einstein
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11. Structures are like pipes:
Channels for resources to flow through
• These pipes are all
different, yet all
designed to take
water
• Different pipes
taking the same
thing
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12. Pipes taking the same thing in
different directions?
Similar pipes taking different
things?
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13. Diversity
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Same material
Different colours
Different size
Different strengths
Different purposes
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14. Valves: access to, or closing
access to, resources
• Flow in different
directions
• Channels
opened/closed by
valves
• Flow management
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15. Support structures to deliver
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16. Domains are places where
pipes deliver resources to.
It’s not all work…
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