From: L. Michael Hall
2016 Meta-Coaching Support: Morpheus #11
March 16 2016 （2016 年 3 月 16 號）

I have been wanting to do a workshop on Politics, Political Coaching, and/or Political Change

Processes.  So I’ve been looking for opportunities.  I had the first one last September in Mauritius when Sandra Vijoen set up a presentation on Self-Actualizing Leadership and invited key political leaders as well as heads of various business organizations.  Then last week in Manila Philippines, we had our very first Political Coaching Workshop.  It was a one-day

“training” (or semi-training) on this subject.

我一直很想要做有關于政治，政治教練及政治改變進程的工作坊。因此我到處尋找機會。今年 9 月我找到了，也就是珊拉小姐在非洲的毛裏求斯(毛裏斯)安排自我實現領導力的工作坊時，他邀請關鍵的政治領導人和許多公司的大頭。上周我在馬尼拉開了第一次的政治教練工作坊。這是這個主題的一天「課程」（或是小型課程）。

First we had to define politics which is probably mis-understood by 99.9 percent of the world’s population.  So we began by de-mystifying the term and the reference.  Contrary to what most people think, politics is people and if people, then relationships.  Politics speaks about how we get along (or don’t get along) with each other.  It’s about how we manage our conversations, decisions, resource, and organize ourselves into groups.

我們一定要先定義政治這個名詞。或許有百分之九九的世界人口誤解這個名詞。因此我們先從去除迷失此名詞以及參考物開始。跟許多人認爲相反之處是政治是人，如果是人，那麽就是關係。政治是談有關于我們如何互相相處（或互相不能相處）。這是有關于我們如何管理自己的對話，决定，資源和組織我們成爲團隊。

Now does that sound very similar to group and team coaching?  Ah yes.  And so it is.  What we do when we “politick” is construct the way we organize ourselves.  In businesses and organizations, we call that organizational development (OD).  In coaching we call that group and team coaching or group dynamics.  In sociology and anthropology this refers to the very development of groups, how they grow and create their cultural patterns.  Many perspectives of the same phenomenon— how humans get along with each other.

這是不是跟團隊教練很類似啊？是的。它是。當我們「搞政治」的時候，我們所做的事情是在建構組織自己的方式。在商業領域，我們稱它爲組織發展。在教練領域，我們稱做團隊教練或團隊動態。在社會學和人類學，這指的是組織的發展，他們如何成長和産生文化模式的。這些都是同個現象的不同面向-人類如何互相相處。

If politics is relationships, then that describes the focus of Political Coaching.  After all, things get

“political” because people bring into a group experience (family, company, corporate, government) interests, agendas, paradigms, styles, values, visions, etc.  And these often conflict with each other.  If the communications are open and transparent, then so also the politics.  If not, then the politics become unclean and dirty— people hide information, communicate in covert and secretive ways, try to get their way by buying influence, etc.

如果政治是關係，這就是政治教練的專注重點。畢竟，事情會變成「政治化」因爲人們將（家人，公司，財團，政府）利益，議程，範疇，風格，價值，願景等帶入群組體驗裏。如果溝通是開放和透明，那麽政治也是。如果不是，政治變得不乾淨和肮髒 – 人們隱瞞信息，偷偷摸摸和秘密溝通，透過收買得到他們要的方式等等。

At our first Political Coaching workshop, we had people who were mostly concerned with office politics— the politics that go on inside of organizations and companies.  We also had a few people who were interested in government politics and who played different roles in that arena.  We had a sitting judge from the superior court—the Honorable Rowena Tan, a Judge of Supreme Court of the Philippines and Officer of Alumni Association of National University on Public Policy of Singapore.  Also Hermenegildo A. Gualberto, vice mayor of San Fernando, la union, Province of Benguet (Northern part of the Philippines) along with his staff.  We also had some others involved in the political process of government, and others interested in how to influence government politics.

我們這次的政治教練工作坊的參加學員大多數關心的是辦公室裏的政治 – 組織和公司裏所發生的政治。我們也有一些學員對政府的政治有興趣也在那些領域扮演不同叫色。我們有一位法官，陳大法官在課堂裏和菲律賓北部某一個城市的副市長以及他的幕僚。我們也有一些學員是捲入政府政治進程以及其他學員對如何影響政府政治有興趣。

My focus in the one-day training was to begin with what it is and then how it works.  That took up a good bit of time as we looked at the design and focus (creating a good society) to how that design can get corrupted— what is “corruption” and how it works.  I then focused on the vision of healthy, positive, enlightened, or Theory Y politics (self-actualizing politics).  In the afternoon we focused on political dynamics.  That, just as there are individual dynamics that govern how a single individual experiences oneself (thinks, feels, speaks, acts, relates, grows, etc.), and as there are group dynamics, so also there are political dynamics— the processes and mechanisms that govern a body politic.  This part is designed to increase a person’s P.Q.— Political Intelligence.

我在這一天的培訓焦點是先從它是甚麽和如何運作開始。那也花了不少時間因爲我們討論它的設計和焦點（創建好的社會）和此設計如何被污濁 – 甚麽是「貪污」以及運作方式。接著我專注在健康，正面，啓發或 Y 理論政治（自我實現政治）。下午，我們專注在政治動態。也因爲有個人動態管制個人本身的體驗（思考，感受，說，做，關連，成長等），也會有團隊動態 – 管制團隊政治的進程和機制。這一個部分的設計是要提升個人的 PQ（政治智商）

Then from one’s political intelligence comes political skill.  What can we do and how can we do those things that influence the political context.  This led to presenting and describing a series of

political skills as well as discussing how to develop these skills.  As with any domain, there is the knowledge and understanding of a realm and then there are the required competencies for translating the intelligence into practical action.  In “politics,” we move from political intelligence that enables you to be informed and knowledgeable about how it works to the personal competence to make a difference.

接著從政治智商我們談到政治技能。我們可以做到甚麽以及如何做那些事情影響政治場景。這就衍生一系列的政治技能以及討論如何發展這些技能。如同任何一個領域都會有該領域的知識和理解以及將智能轉成實際行動的相對的技能。我們在「政治」裏轉移到政治智商使你可以對于如何運作有所知識幷提升個人技能做出不同。

I learned a lot in the process and from the feedback, I think so did all of the participants.  “What did you learn?” was the question at the end.  “What will you take away from this?”  One lady’s eyes sparkled as she said, “There is hope!”  And of course, being in Manila Philippines which is in their election cycle with candidates that most people say makes the choice “the lesser of evils,” and the person who will do the least damage to the country, a proclamation of hope is saying a lot!  Another said, “There are specific steps for what we can do to make things better.”  我在整個進程和反饋中獲益良多，我想所有學員也是。最後的問題是：「你學到甚麽？」「你獲得甚麽？」一個女士眼睛發光著說：「有希望！」。當然在馬尼拉的選舉裏，人民都會說：「只能從爛蘋果裏挑出比較不爛的以及他是對國家的傷害是最低的，所以有希望就已經是表達出許多心聲了。另外一個學員說：「我們可以做到許多具體的步驟使事情更好。」

The focus that Political Coaching uniquely addresses is the unhealthy side of working out differences.  Wherever that occurs— in the home, in the office, or in government, then Political Coaching becomes a valued resource.  The resource is a conversation —one of the numerous political conversations that can facilitate people having a productive conversation.

政治教練獨特專注解决差异的不健康之面向。不管發生在甚麽地方，家裏，公司，或政府，政治教練變得是一個有價值的資源。那個資源是一種對話 – 許多政治對話的其中對話之一幷可以優化人們有生産力的對話。

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