COACHING LEADERS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH
By Steven Ober
Leaders live and work in complex systems. In fact, we all do. These systems include our org
anizations, our teams, our families, our communities, and our larger society.
In today’s world, it is incumbent on those of us who coach leaders to deepen and broaden our ability to coach from a systemic perspective—to understand our client leader as an individual human system working and living in larger systems. How a leader proceeds in those systems, and how those systems operate, can have a huge impact on her ability to achieve her goals.
This article presents an overview of Coaching from a systems perspective:
Definition What is a “system”?
Why coaching from a systems perspective is critical in today’s world.
What systemic coaching includes.
How you can, on a practical level, coach systemically…
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Steven P. Ober EdD. Steve is a senior executive coach and consultant. He has developed and successfully uses a powerful approach to leadership coaching, Creating your Leadership Story, which enables leaders to make deep, lasting improvements in their leadership effectives in short periods of time.
Coaching from a Systems Perspective was developed by a group of senior coaches from the Coaching Community of Practice, Society for Organizational Learning. We call ourselves Systems Perspectives, LLC. You will find an overview of the program, dates, locations, and a contact person for each offering on their website: http://SystemsPerspectivesLLC.com.
THE LIVING ORGANIZATION: RECLAIMING THE SOUL OF BUSINESS
By Norman Wolfe
We have been living through a time of unprecedented changes. While Free Market Capitalism has been the engine of growth for our society for the last 100 plus years it now seems to be failing us. We have seen our society significantly develop and enrich our daily lives because of the innovations and advances brought forward under this market driven, capital system. And yet it seems as though the very foundation of what we believe, what we have come to depend upon is on very shaky ground. Some pundits are already proclaiming the end of Capitalism, as we’ve known it.
For over 100 years, the business world has transformed our lives. The modern corporation has been the engine that has given us unprecedented prosperity. We have developed as a society more in the last 100 years than we have on the preceding 1000 years. We have brought forth more innovation, created greater opportunities and improved the overall standard of living…
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Norman Wolfe, founder of Quantum Leaders, Inc., has spent over 35 years working with a variety of organizations from technology start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. A strong business leader with a track record of producing results, Norman is a leading expert on executing strategy.
Norman recognized early in his career that in order to continuously achieve flawless execution, he not only had to improve the efficiency of business processes, he also had to develop the talents, energy and maturity of his people. He dedicated himself to becoming a leading expert in business process improvement and interpersonal dynamics, which led to the creation of The Living Organization®– a robust new business model for describing the forces which impact company success and failure in the 21st century.
Quantum Leaders, Inc. is an American company founded in 2002 to assist organizations in improving their ability to execute corporate strategy. The robust and adaptive business model, The Living Organization®, provides an innovative framework that identifies the often invisible barriers to success. Making visible the previously invisible and dynamic forces at work allows a clear definition of the specific actions needed to accelerate the achievement of desired results.
