Mixture of infirm equations and insecurities

Any learning, says Sunil Unny Guptan, is best carried out in an environment shorn of external status. He cautions that hierarchies in organisations are sometimes traps that ensnare even level-headed people into believing that the position and status indicators are statements about the people themselves.

“These positions also translate themselves into protocols that bind and restrict people in their interactions and relationships. When such infirm equations also get soaked with insecurities that people carry, it becomes a heady and explosive mixture,” Guptan frets in Executive Coaching: A practitioner's guide to creating excellence (www.sagepublications.com).

The author observes that people's insecurities, often arising out of their capabilities not matching their desires for recognition and rewards, lead them to lean on their acquired positions to gain stature in the system. These excessive emphases on the acquired stature prevent them from being open to honest inventory of their capabilities and developing themselves further, he explains. “It builds a false sense of protective sanctuary around the individual and thwarts any form of functional and productive association in coaching.”Valuable insights for organisation builders.

Bookpeek.blogspot.com

COMMENT NOW