Arete Coach 1112 Vistage: Pioneers of Chair Facilitated Peer Executive Groups, 65 Year Anniversary

Arete Coach: The Art & Science of Executive Coaching

Arete Coach Podcast

Business, How To, Entrepreneurship, Education, Management

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🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This is episode 1,112 of the Arete Coach Podcast with host Severin Sorensen with another episode that explores the art and science of executive coaching. In this episode, we explore the power of peers and professionally facilitated peer executive groups, and in particular, we deep dive into the Vistage model as it celebrates its 65th year anniversary.

In addition to reviewing the historical research on the environment that cultivated TEC-Vistage, the founding of the company and its early history, this episode includes remarks and input from dozens of Vistage chairs and stakeholders passed and present.

In this episode, we explore the important role of the ancient vizier, advisor, privy councils and their parallels to the modern Chair role played in professionally facilitated executive peer groups. In a Vistage Group, a Chair is an executive coach, who is at times a coach, mentor, and facilitator of the peer executive group.

Vistage differentiates itself from other business focused self-help groups by providing professional facilitation by an executive coach called the Chair, who has had significant prior business experience and deep training in coaching skills and executive peer group facilitation. The Vistage Chair role is to facilitate the peer group discussions, asking questions to draw out the expertise of the group members experiences and ideas, and periodically provide expert advice and guidance to the members when asked, while fostering a culture of trust, confidentiality, and open communication among the members.

The goal of the chair in this model is to help members gain new perspectives, solve problems, and make better decisions by sharing their experiences and learning from one another. This and much more is explored in this episode of the Arete Coach Podcast.

The Arete Coach Podcast seeks to explore the art and science of executive coaching. You can find out more about this podcast at aretecoach.io.

This session was recorded on January 28th, 2023 via Zoom video. This session also includes dozens of interview callouts from current and former Vistage chairs and stakeholders from Arete Coach podcast recorded since April of 2020.

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0:00.0	This is the Articogge podcast with Severin Swanson with an episode that explores the power of peers
0:06.1	and professionally facilitated period-secondary groups and the Vistage model, with remarks and input
0:12.9	from dozens of Vistage chairs and stakeholders passed in present. This past October,
0:19.6	Vistage celebrated its 65th anniversary and this episode revisits the birth, early development,
0:26.4	and growth of tech and its maturation into Vistage. This session was recorded on January 28,
0:34.1	2023 via Zoom Video. This session also includes dozens of interview callouts from current
0:41.1	and former Vistage chairs and stakeholders from previous Articogge podcasts recorded since April
0:47.2	of 2020. Impondering the power of peers and period-secondary groups, my mind goes to a famous quote
0:55.1	by Rudier Kipling, where the strength of the wolf is the pack and the strength of the pack is the
1:01.7	wolf. A wolf is made stronger by the pack, yet it is the strength the wolf brings to the pack that
1:08.5	makes it a stronger pack. For a peer group to be effective, there must be both give and take.
1:15.3	There is a synergy there and you want to have peer group members bringing their strengths to the
1:20.7	group. For the strength of the wolf is the pack. Have you ever considered as a leader?
1:27.6	You are the average of the people you keep around you. If you surround yourself with yes,
1:33.2	men and sick offense, you risk peril to you and your kingdom. The fable of the emperor has no
1:40.2	clothes shares the follow of such peril where people are afraid to tell the leader the truth
1:45.7	for fear of reprisal, even as the bare truth of nakedness is obvious to all onlookers.
1:52.7	The fact is, over the ages, great leaders gather around them people who will speak the truth,
1:58.6	even the brutal truth. Anciently in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, the pharaohs and souls had a group
2:05.6	of visors, around them that they chose for their loyalty, temperance, wisdom, counsel, and keen
2:13.2	sense of discernment. Some of these visors were promoted to senior leadership roles of administration
2:19.8	of great projects or of government functions. Similarly, in ancient China, wise leaders sought to
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