Integral Executive CoachingSupporting Leaders and Positive Deviants to Live with IntegrityIntegral Executive Coaching addresses the needs of Positive Deviant Leaders. Executive life is fraught with potential traps and road blocks. In our modern world, the pressure to produce outcomes specifically around profitability are so great, that the temptation to compromise our key values and principles, such as family time, personal health and our own integrity, are almost impossibly seductive. Coaching using an Integral framework supports leaders to maintain their integrity despite the prevailing environment. The environment of corporate privilege is exciting to live within, and extremely hard to give up. All the perks, bonus's and symbols of status, suck us in to a world that exists in another dimension to ordinary life. Executives can easily be seduced to do things that they ordinarily would not do in order to maintain their status. Ego's often get out of control. Our current world is rife with examples. The collapse of Enron, and the global financial crisis are just a few recent examples. Executive coaching is quite common in our time. However, what distinguishes Integral Coaching is that it does adhere to an integral approach, meaning that the coaching covers at minimum four domains and their relationship to each other. The values and beliefs of the executive. Their actions and behaviors in the world. Their relationships, how they live within the culture of the organization and their own community And the systems and structures that they create to support them, plus how well they integrate into the operating systems they work within.
In addition, the Executive is profiled using a tool that determines how they sit from a developmental point of view. Included in this is their emotional, social, ethical, physical and spiritual development. A leader can be highly developed cognitively, and yet poorly developed morally. They are smart, but will cross the line around their ethics. Or high cognitive, low emotional-intellectually smart, but highly reactive, prone to anger, outbursts and extremes of behavior. Integral Coaching provides a pathway for leadership development built on the results of the profiling tool, challenging the leader across multiple domains. The coaching is so highly developmental, generally requiring a high degree of commitment from both the executive and the sponsoring organization. It is not a "get fixed quick" version of coaching. Integral Coaching involves a long term commitment with focused work, combining executive education, practical application, and the constant challenge of staying at the very highest level of leadership excellence. Of course, organizations that employ Integral Coaching do so with open eyes. They know that they are seeking leaders who set an example that transcends the traditional bottom line only focus. They seek to create leaders who contribute to the bottom line, while building a company that honors people, is aware of their environmental footprint, have a healthy personal life, maintain their own health, build strong relationships with community and find ways to contribute to society as a whole. These leaders are Positive Deviants-very much needed in our brave new world. They also know that they require their leaders to be great coaches in their own right, to clearly understand the distinction between leadership, management and coaching, and to be able to engage people using these three modalities with fluency. In these pages we will explore executive coaching models, executive coaching tools, optimal delivery methods for executive coaching, plus many other articles supporting the development of the positive deviant leader. Business Leadership Coaching
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