Leadership Coaching Tips
Leadership Coaching Tip: How do you know what progress is made?
Dumb question? We all know that if the client thinks there is progress, that’s good enough for us, right? Well, maybe! When working with a client who is looking for…
Leadership Coaching Tip
If the executive you are working with has as a developmental objective to be able to recognize and engage effectively with others who may have different world views than her…
Leadership Coaching Tip
When working developmentally with an executive and one goal is to develop capabilities for working with change, innovation, ambiguity and surprise, this will involve attention to leadership. Try scenarios. The…
Leadership Coaching Tip
Clearly, our capacities for seeing and understanding different worldviewsand action logics, much less be able to strategize from those perspectives, is a function of our integral development. Cognitively, we can…
Leadership Coaching Tip
The coaching conversations related to the use and design of scenarios can offer a useful way to open discussions of values, beliefs, assumptions, mental models, aspirations, etc., that the executive…
Leadership Coaching Tip
When coaching executives, look for openings to explore the relationship between interior-individual lines of development (intellectual, emotional, etc.) and organizational systems (vision and strategy, communications, etc.) An example of such…
Leadership Coaching Tip
In leadership development through coaching we use a “what if” type of question to help leaders to tease out the implications of alternatives. That is a double-loop learning strategy– and…
Leadership Coaching Tip
When working with an executive or other leader in generating alternatives and playing out outcomes from alternatives we are engaging in a scenario exploration process. As a coach it is…
Leadership Coaching Tip: Being in the Tsunami
The sources of business tsunamis are manifold. Just in the last few days I have had executive clients bring their tsunami’s to our coaching conversations. One example is an individual…
Leadership Coaching Tip
It is obvious that when coaching leaders from an integral perspective it is important to surface relevant work that is related to the cognitive, emotional, values, relationships, health, moral and…