Executive team coaching

In business, Executive Team Coaching is an executive development approach that puts executives' leadership development within the context of their broader team and business.

Methodologies

While specific methodologies vary across consultants and coaches, the unifying theme across all these approaches is that the executives being coached are not expected to become "perfect" leaders in any one area; rather, they are each expected to contribute according to their strengths and the needs of their team.

Approach

Executive team coaching differs from executive coaching in a group setting in that the coaching client is the whole team as a system rather than each of the executives in turn. During executive team coaching sessions, the team works on its usual business, typically running a business meeting, and then is coached on its collective process and results. The focus of the team coaching process is on improving operational interfaces between team members rather than on developing each of the executives individually.

Executive team coaching is focused on help all the team members change their team dynamics regardless of the sum of individualities that make up the team. Consequently, executive team coaching as an approach inherits from systems analysis or general system theory much more than from more traditional management and psychological approaches.

A key coaching strategy today focuses on the elimination of microinequities. Consultants like [http://www.the-next-level.com/brigid.html Brigid Moynahan] , President and Founder of [http://the-next-level.com The Next Level] , run training seminars based on the impact subtle acts of exclusion have on coworkers, employees, and businesses overall. In her executive briefing for [http://www.conference-board.org/publications/describe_ea.cfm?id=987 The Conference Board] , Moynahan wrote that microinequities "have the power to slowly and methodically erode a person’s motivation and sense of worth. The end result costs companies millions of dollars in low productivity,absenteeism, and poor employee retention." [The Conference Board Executive Action “Go Ahead: Sweat The Small Stuff”, Moynahan, Brigid, June 2005]

References

External links

* [http://www.communications-research.com Communications Research]
* [http://www.leadershipandteamcoaching.com Leadership and Team Coaching]

ee also

microinequities