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Coaching That Connects - Bringing Systemic Thinking to HR and L&D
Why do the same coaching issues keep appearing across different people in the same organisation? This article explores how systemic coaching moves beyond individual skill-building to reveal the patterns, structures and dynamics that shape what's possible for people at work.
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Books and Articles
Purposeful Cultures: A Practical Self-Leadership Guide
Humanity stands at a crossroads. In a world full of systemic challenges—from the ecological crisis to the uncertain future of artificial intelligence intersecting with the defence systems of nations to the challenges of an ever more densely populated world. Will we prevail, or will we falter? The call to action is clear: our leadership is needed. Drawing inspiration from the prophetic words of the Hopi elders—"we are the ones we have been waiting for"—this book shares a paradigm shift in leadership, moving away from traditional hierarchical authority to a collective responsibility we all can embrace.
Big Little Shifts: A Practitioner’s Guide to Complexity for Organisational Change and Adaptation
Adaptation has never been so important as it is now, in the disruptive wake of the COVID-19 onset. We are undergoing a whole systems change. The far-reaching impacts on our complex, uncertain world pose questions that individual leaders are unable to answer on their own.
We need a different approach.
This book is for leaders who want to hold the space for change, people who see themselves as agents of change, and government teams working in complex policy areas like sustainability, education and health. Drawing on 15 years of practical experience, this 'how-to' book offers a comprehensive approach to facilitating emergent change and transformation.
Ecological and Climate Conscious Coaching: A Companion Guide to Evolving Coaching Practice
This book takes you on a seven-day journey with your guides: 60 coaches and thought-leaders from around the world. Through storytelling, poetry and other creative approaches, readers can follow this programme alone or with others and take a practical and empowering look at the impact of the climate emergency on their practice and how they might respond.
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Article - Systemic Coaching: A Shift in Organisational Coaching
Current coaching practices in organisations assist one individual or one team at a time. The underlying assumption of this approach for coaches is that if you affect enough parts of the whole, the whole will be transformed. Perhaps, instead, consider that it is the interactions between people, teams and divisions that contribute to the emergence of what we term organisational culture…
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Article - Liberating the Change Within (by Dr Josie McLean and Dr Sam Wells)
It has become increasingly clear over recent decades that business organisations cannot operate in a vacuum, ignoring the complex economic, social and natural systems in which they are embedded. How they engage with their social ‘ecology’ is fundamentally important if they are to succeed ‘sustainably’ in a dynamic and increasingly interconnected world.…..
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Article - Learning to ‘see’ systems
Exercising leadership effectively requires a broader perspective – a systemic perspective. Whether it is in relation to people issues or shaping a strategic response…
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Article - Coaching in Complexity for Sustaining Outcomes
‘I believe you understand how leading change, sustainability and complexity are connected? Could you help us review our work to be more effective and find new ways for us to work more effectively?’ This was the beginning of a conversation with the team responsible for urban sustainability in Adelaide, South Australia…
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