Publications
Personal Life Success Manual
Complete guide to Running Start™ that provides complete instructions for getting started, using the software step by step, keeping on making progress, and all that’s needed for creating and following through on a personal life success plan.
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Life Success Coaching Manual
Shows coaches, educators, counselors, mentors and parents how to use Running Start™ with all kinds of people for educational, career or life, and transition planning. The manual shows how to use Running Start™ in classroom settings, plan classes and courses. It provides discussion points for follow-up to achieve goals and priorities after initial planning, and also how to review, revise and update the personal life success plans.
The manual lists the 22 quality indicators established by the Running Start Institute™. Coaches can help participants meet all or most of these indicators and thereby derive the maximum benefit from the program.
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Articles
“Powering the Wow! If at first you don’t succeed . . . ”
By Richard Hoskin, President of the Running Start Institute™
An article offering a path to personal life success and a step by step summary of what the Running Start™ process achieves and how it works. - Download (.pdf)
“Tools for Building Community”
By Larry Lemmel, Chair of the Center for Consensual Democracy, Chair of Running Start Institute™, author of “Recreating Democracy”.
This article challenges the challenges and opportunities in transforming communities, and describes how vision- and values-based tools can guide effective processes and improve results. Lemmel is an experienced consultant to community leaders and has extensively used the Community Catalyst™ in his practice. - Download (.pdf)
“Forget Competition/Cooperation, go for Emergence”
By Dr. Michael Thorne Kelly, Chair of Advanced Management Catalyst™, Inc., Director of the Running Start Institute™.
Dr. Kelly is the creator of the strategic catalyst processes and tool kits. In this article he describes from the point of view of a psychologist and organizational effectiveness expert the values of his approach to strategic planning. Specifically he discusses how to employ “emergent facilitation” and its effectiveness. He explains the power of the Catalyst method in mobilizing human potential to create strategy, and the critical skill of the facilitator in drawing out the contributions of even divergent participants. He contrasts this with traditional methods that are slower and less innovative. - Download (.pdf)