From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching

Chapter 10

Developing a New Cohort of Leaders

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

–Eric Hoffer¹

One specialized area in which team and group coaches may find themselves working is the realm of leadership development, succession planning or developing a new cohort of leaders. There is ample room for coaches to work within the organizational context–whether working at the traditional executive coaching level of the C-suite, working with executive level teams, or working with mid-level management and supervisors.

Coaches can play a key role in creating space and focus for conversations across organizations, working with groups and teams ...