Getting Started with
Systemic Coaching

In a time of tremendous change and uncertainty, there is enormous pressure on organizations and their leaders to adapt to new and emerging circumstances. Leading and affecting change in organizations is difficult in the best of times. It becomes daunting when most people are stressed out and managing their fears.

People who want to make a difference continually face two basic challenges. First, they need to enroll others in pursuing good ideas, improvement suggestions and new opportunities. They need to ask for time commitments, resources, and often budget. Once they succeed, they face the second challenge. Now they need to execute and deliver on their promises. If they over promise or skip critical steps of creating alignment in the first phase, they will pay for it later by not getting the support and willingness to negotiate trade-offs necessary to succeed. That in turn will affect how readily their next suggestion will be embraced. It is often a tension between expediency and longer term credibility.

What if there were ways to observe and explore the underlying dynamics that influence the willingness of people to embrace change and new ways of doing business? What if we could experience how to approach key individuals and groups of people so that they are truly heard and thus able to move beyond an impasse? What needs to be seen and acknowledged in order to shift the situation so that alignment, great collaboration, and team spirit can emerge?

Organizational Constellations allows us to make the hidden forces of self-organization visible. The forces that influence how we navigate and work around the formal structures of organizations through informal networks, personal relationships and an invisible favor economy. We can test and experiment with specific leadership moves to discover effective ways to move forward.

This series provides support for business owners, leaders and consultants who want to create work environments in which people thrive and contribute effectively to the well being of the organization. It also allows Constellation practitioners to expand their toolkit and the kind of situations for which they can offer systemic coaching.