IMPAQT Executive coaching utilizes the Systems Psychodynamic Perspective, a contextualized approach to coaching involving a one-to-one relationship between the coach and the client. The aim is always to further the effectiveness of the client in her or his role in the organization.
There is a dyadic relationship between client and coach, but with an important difference from, for example, psychotherapy, in that it is a relationship in which there is always an implicit external context in view. This is the organization in which our client works, being present as an internal reality in the mind of the client and the coach and as an external reality out there, to be engaged with.
As a consequence IMPAQT coaching will address the client's exploration of the interplay between self as an individual, in role and in relation to the whole system or organization.
The Systems Psychodynamic Perspective in detail:
The Psychodynamic element refers to psychoanalytic perspective on individual experiences and mental processes as well as on the experiences of unconscious group and social processes, which are simultaneously both a source and a consequence of unresolved or unorganised organiational difficulties.
The Systemic element refers to the open systems concepts that provide the dominant framing perspective for understanding the structural aspects of an organizational system.
These include:
- Design
- Division of labour
- Levels of authority
- Reporting relationship
as well as the nature of:
- Work tasks
- Processes and activities
- Mission and primary task
- Patterning of the organization's task
- Sentient boundaries and the transactions across them
