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Executive team coaching

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Today’s executive leadership teams are working in a context of complexity, change and uncertainty. Alongside leading their own areas of responsibility, they need to work effectively as a collective leadership team, making decisions, managing competing demands and maintaining a shared focus on the organisation’s purpose. Executive team coaching provides space to strengthen how they work and lead together.

What is executive team coaching?

Executive team coaching helps an executive team develop its capacity to lead an organisation collectively. It focuses on how members work together across their different executive roles, make decisions, exercise authority and maintain a shared focus on the organisation’s purpose.

Executive teams are affected by pressures within the wider organisation as well as by what happens between members of the team. Coaching provides space to step back from day-to-day demands and consider how these influences may be shaping the team’s thinking, relationships and decisions. This systems psychodynamic approach pays attention to both the visible and less conscious aspects of organisational life, helping the team understand what may be affecting its effectiveness.

For coaching with leadership, management, clinical, professional or multidisciplinary teams more broadly, see our Team Coaching service.

Our approach

We help executive teams reflect on how they are working together and the impact this has on the organisation they lead. Using the day-to-day work of the executive team, we explore how members take up their executive roles, how authority and responsibility are shared, how differences are worked with, and how the team makes decisions under pressure.

This provides dedicated time and space to step back from immediate demands, address challenges as they arise and strengthen the team’s capacity to think and work together.

Who this is for

Executive team coaching is for executive and senior leadership teams that want to strengthen how they lead together. It can be particularly valuable when:

For work specifically with a board on its governance and strategic leadership responsibilities, see our Board Consultancy service.

How it works

Executive team coaching is shaped around the needs of the team and the organisation it leads. We begin by developing an understanding of the team, its current context and what it wants to achieve through the work.

Coaching takes place over a series of sessions focused on the day-to-day work of the executive team and the challenges it is facing. This allows the coaching to respond to what emerges over time, rather than following a predetermined programme. Individual executive coaching can also be included where this would support the work of the team.

Who you would work with

Our executive team coaches are experienced organisational consultants who bring a systems psychodynamic perspective to their work with executive teams and the wider organisations they lead.

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Charlotte Williams, Director
EMCC Senior Practitioner and BACP Senior Accredited, with an MA in Consulting and Leading in Organisations from the Tavistock and Portman. Works with executive teams and senior leaders across sectors to strengthen collective leadership and team effectiveness, including during periods of organisational change and uncertainty. Works bilingually in Welsh and English. Read Charlottes profile

Impact

Executive teams tell us the depth and quality of the work has had a lasting impact on their leadership, with wider benefits for the organisation, including:

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Whatever challenge, opportunity or development you’re facing, an enquiry call offers a chance to pause, reflect, and think it through together, without any obligation or pressure.

When you contact us, a member of our team will either address your enquiry directly (if you’re just looking for information) or let you know that a consultant will be in touch to arrange an initial online conversation.

If your enquiry is more urgent, please feel free to contact us on 020 8938 2475.

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