Developmental Coaching

Coaching can be a vehicle for inner transformation and growth. When you combine coaching foundations and principles with vertical leadership development and action-inquiry it can generate learning that changes not just what you think but how you think. Its like putting on a fresh pair of glasses and seeing things differently to how you did before. This is the basis of developmental coaching.

There are two strands of development, and both are important. Horizontal development is about learning new skills and capabilities, whereas with vertical development we expand our capacity to think, feel, and act in more complex ways. We become more adaptable and comfortable with uncertainty, and operate less in black and whites, and more in the ‘grey’.

Researchers have identified seven stages of vertical development. At each new stage, leaders develop new capacities to deal with complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty.

In my developmental coaching packages you explore what stage you are mostly operating from and we start to explore where the growth threads lie.

Why does vertical development matter? Research shows that leaders that operate from later stages of vertical development have higher leadership effectiveness in all 8 competencies identified in the study (e.g. Leading Change, Managing Performance, Creating a Compelling Vision, etc.).

Developmental coaching packages range from 3, 6 or 10 session packages.

If you are ready for deep, ‘no turning back’ kind of level of change, I would love to hear from you.