Leadership and coaching
Leadership is needed to effectively cope with the growing complexity companies and people are facing. New rules of interaction inside organizations and between organizations and their clients and stakeholders have enormous consequences for the way organizations are led and structured. Homogeneous markets, client groups, cultures and behaviors have been replaced by multi contextual, fast changing environments.
In this complexity, cause-and-effect relations are not easily identified and often only become clear afterwards. For many organizations traditional management approaches no longer work or have to be adapted. The number of variables and interactions is such that trusted tools used to meet command and control challenges are more and more falling short in generating optimal performance. Co-creative approaches and management by values, empathy, judgment, the ability to connect and to coach are now needed more than ever.
Every individual is unique. But at one point we are all equal: we have much more talent to offer than we are mostly aware of. Coaching can help develop those talents as related to a specific need as an organization or as a coachee and add value to future developments.
(Leadership) coaching is a journey in which the coach travels together with the coachee, in relation to the development challenges he or she is facing. This journey leads to insight of what blockages interfere with authenticity and what energizes and vitalizes the authenticity of a person or a collective.
Coaching helps leaders to embody and incorporate the future corporate challenges and goals, today. Executive Learning Partnership has developed a coaching practice in line with our philosophy around Next Generation Leadership.
We offer new insights, approaches and tools to, for example, increase a manager’s effectiveness, to aid retention (from the organization’s perspective), to give awareness to new opportunities, or to reflect on work-life balance. Or we offer coaching for the first 100 days in a new job, where it is important to maintain the favorable first impression and score quick results.
Together with our partners we have created a high level network of experienced coaches supporting leaders and their organisations to connect to a new future, to overcome blockages and to face challenges with energy and connected to one’s own authenticity.
Our coaching practice is coordinated by Jan Willem Kirpestein PhD and Hélène Propsma. You can contact them through our offices in Amsterdam and Leuven. Together with them you can tailor the coaching approach – including finding the right coach with the right background - to your specific demand.
For more information Get in touch with Jan Willem
