Integral Executive Coaching-Developing leaders to have the capacity to deal with complex systemic issues while maintaining personal and organisational Integrity

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. Executive 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.

In other instances, we have leaders who have high integrity and yet need to develop capacities to deal with complexity. They bring passion and commitment to the table, yet they lack a high altitude perspective, or the ability to see complex problems from a systemic perspective. Or they may have great technical skills and really struggle when it comes to working with people.

Executive coaching is quite common in our time. However, what distinguishes Integral Executive Coaching is that it does adhere to an integral approach, meaning that the coaching covers at minimum four domains and the relationship of each domain 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.

We may profile the Executive using tools 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 Executive Coaching provides a pathway for leadership development, 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 Executive 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 Executive 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.

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.

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To get started, you need to do the following.

1. Email or call Christine McDougall @ christine@syzergy.biz requesting an interview for Integral Executive Coaching.
2. We will set up a time for a telephone meeting to discuss your unique requirements, and to be sure we have a strong match so our work together will be extraordinary. This meeting is at no charge.
3. We may schedule an appointment face to face at this time, depending on your requirements and logistics.
4. Once we have agreed to proceed, we will consider frequency, meeting times, and then determine the cost, based on your needs and requirements and the coach’s suggestions.
5. You will be asked to complete some simple forms and to make your initial payment (for large companies we will issue the invoice at commencement and agree to payment terms). Generally these forms take 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
6. We may agree to do some prework assessments, which can include shadowing you for a period of time to get to see how you interact at work and how people respond to you.
7. We also agree to the timing of review sessions- the frequency of reviews, who needs to be involved etc.
8. We set a date to get started, and off we go.

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