Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, 2nd Edition

3

SYSTEMS THINKING Understanding the Executive’s Challenges and the Coach’s Challenges

This chapter further explores the effects of stressful situations on leaders and the ways those situations elicit reactive responses in them. It instructs the coach in the art of detecting and understanding the impacts of the forces operating in the client’s system. As you read, see whether you can detect the systems patterns that work on and through your clients. Also, assess your ability to identify what effects clients have on you and in what ways these forces alter how you work with your clients. Attending closely to the key systems concepts presented here will give you a new way to see the forces that create an impact on you, your clients, and their organizations. ...