Integral Leadership Coaching Program Design

Any new coaching relationship involves a process for becoming familiar with the purpose of the coaching. What is the nature of the desired development – from what to what, and why? Most leaders will have benefit of in-depth 360 assessments to provide substantial data to inform the following process.

Whether you think of the three questions below as a “personal mastery” model or a “gap analysis,” they present a simple, focused way to approach the specific anchors for developing a coaching plan:

• What is the current reality?
• What is the desired future state? and
• What needs to happen to get from here to there?

These questions relate to competencies in four dimensions: the “I” (self-care), the “We” (social care), and the “It" (observable things, like behavior), and "Its” (ecosystems, technology systems, social systems, etc.).

Within the “I” and “We” dimensions, a four-quadrant framework can also generate awareness and capacity-building through exercises and practices around self-awareness, self-care, social awareness, and social care -- in the physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual domains.

Coaching Program Designs

1. What is the Current Reality?

• What is the leader’s level of development around self-awareness and self-care? (Competency in the “I” Dimension)
• What is the leader’s level of development around social awareness and social care? (Competency in the “We” Dimension)
• What is the leader’s level of development around authentic behavior, aligning structures, systems, processes, technology, finances, etc.? (Competency in the “It” and "Its" Dimensions)

2. What is the desired Future State?

• What is the leader’s desired level of development around self
  awareness and self-care? (Competency in the “I” Dimension)
• What is the leader’s desired level of development around social awareness and
  social care? (Competency in the “We” Dimension)
• What is the leader’s desired level of development around authentic behavior, aligning structures, systems,
  processes, technology, finances, etc.? (Competency in the “It” and "Its" Dimensions)

3. What needs to happen to get from here to there? (Intentional congruence between “I,” “We,” "It," and “Its” Dimensions)

• What path of development – with exercises, practices, new behaviors, and support
  networks – are needed within a particular time frame to achieve those desired outcomes?