{"id":2200,"date":"2023-02-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.coaching-labo.co.jp\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:10:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:10:47","slug":"abstract-and-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/info.coaching-labo.co.jp\/en\/encyclopedia\/abstract-and-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"What are “abstract and concrete skills”\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the skills of coaching questions is “chunking down and chunking up”. Executive coaching also utilizes that skill, but let me introduce the “abstract and concrete skills” as a higher-order perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kojien defines it as follows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abstract : the psychological action of grasping a thing or a representation without regard to any aspect or quality of the thing or representation.
Concrete : to have a whole, to have a special form or quality in an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, abstract is to focus on elements of things such as characteristics and attributes, and to represent multiple objects as a single thing, while concrete is to grasp things as entities without grouping them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, consider the case where you are asked, “What is a dog?”.
If you love Shiba-chan and your dog’s name is “Shibachan,” an image of Shibachan itself may come to mind. That is concrete.
However, there may be people who dislike dogs to begin with and cannot think of a specific breed. If you imagine some “dog-like things” for the time being, including wolves, and then use the term “the most obedient animal to humans that is not a cat or something similar,” you can say that this is an abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This difference in perspective can be helpful in a coaching session. What is the client focusing on when he or she thinks? And what are they not noticing?
When eliciting ideas, the flow of thinking can be organized by separating and hierarchizing purpose and means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider sports. Baseball, soccer, volleyball, tennis\u2026 you might imagine these sports. Each one is concrete. However, they are all ball games, one group and one abstraction within the larger abstract concept of sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Therefore, we can change our point of view to “ball games that do not use a ball\u2026”. As we repeat this discipline of thought, we deepen the abstract and the concrete, or transcend the boundaries of categories. New abstractions and concreteness may come into view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission of the executive level is to develop the company, and they are always thinking about this. By incorporating “abstract and concrete” into the session and thinking about it together with the client as an executive, the possibility of opening up new perspectives will increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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