Systemic Coaching

Systemic Coaching contains key chapters on how to contract in various settings, how to work relationally and dialogically, how to expand our own and others' ecological awareness, how to get greater value from supervision, work with systemic ethics and expand our impact.

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, including those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, their local community and also the wider ecology. Systemic Coaching contains key chapters on how to contract in various settings, how to work relationally and dialogically, how to expand our own and others' ecological awareness, how to get greater value from supervision, work with systemic ethics and expand our impact. While illustrating why a new model of coaching is necessary, Hawkins and Turner also provide the tools and approaches that coaches and clients need to deliver this greater impact, accompanied by real-life case examples and interviews from the authors and other leading coaches and leaders globally.

*Systemic Coaching* will be an invaluable resource for coaches in practice and in training, mentors, coach supervisors, consultants in leadership development and HR and L&D professionals and leaders.

This book is hugely timely and important. As Hawkins and Turner quite rightly point out, as coaches and leaders, we no longer have the luxury of changing the world one person at a time. This era calls for a highly nuanced systemic coaching approach, and for those willing to step up, this rich and wise book will be the ideal companion to help them do so. Liz Hall, coach and editor of Coaching at Work and author of Mindful Coaching (Kogan Page), and Coach the team (Penguin), UK Hawkins and Turner masterfully challenge us as coaches and leaders to engage in a necessary revolution to become 'future-fit' for the ever-growing complexities of the 21st century. Shifting our focus from the individual to the wider ecology, cultivating a system view and regularly disrupting ourselves with an eye to the longer view in these most formidable times. This book is truly a tour de force and must read for all of us! Pam McLean, Ph.D., CEO Hudson Institute of Coaching, USA; Author, Self as Coach, Self as Leader & Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching It is time to question everything we thought we knew about coaching. The future of coaching lies not in one narrow cultural or philosophical domain but in diverse responses to complexity, in the aspirations of new generations, in wider social impact and in coach-AI partnerships. Peter and Eve capture this challenge admirably. Professor David Clutterbuck, David Clutterbuck Partnership, UK As our profession takes shape, and evolves, coaches' pursuit of Excellence and Mastery and the wider systems that we serve needs to stay relevant so that we create the biggest ripples, or collective impact, within both business and society. The authors of Systemic Coaching convey this beautifully, as an essential read for any practitioner or leader coach, looking to find greater meaning in their work. Katherine Tulpa, Group CEO, Chair & Co-founder, Association for Coaching; and Executive Director, Wisdom8, UK This is truly a book for our age. Hawkins and Turner deliver a rich and insightful exploration of the systemic coaching model, emphasising that coaching is not just for the highly privileged few, but for the benefit of all. They highlight the collective change which is needed in our approach towards coaching, and the need to respond to the future in a more informed, compassionate and conscious way. We all need to take responsibility for our place in the world and for our ecological crisis. Applying the 'Ecological Awareness Model' to coaching will be crucial in coming years. As Hawkins and Turner rightly point out, the ecological dimension is present in every coaching session, overtly or covertly, consciously or unconsciously. Clive Mann, Executive Coach working with senior leaders and their teams, Managing Director of Ridler & Co and Author of the Ridler Report, UK Hawkins and Turner's Systemic Coaching powerfully addresses what continues to be, sadly, a consistent failing in the coaching industry. All too often we find coaches trapped in the vacuum of the individual, blind to organisational and market system dynamics. This malaise renders a lot of coaching into nothing more than a fancy counselling session, for ten times the price. However, when coaching is delivered systemically, in the way that Hawkins and Turner beautifully elucidate in this book, it has the potential to be one of the most profound value creating interventions available in the business world of today. This is a must read. Every coach should have a copy on their bookshelf with dog ears and margin notes. Dr Marc Kahn, Global Head of HR & OD, Investec Plc, and Visiting Professor of People, Organisation and Strategy Practices, Middlesex University, London, UK A tour de force! Essential reading for every OD consultant, HR specialist, coach and supervisor! It addresses the issue of our time, liberating coaching from the shackles of individual development to integrate the wider organisational, eco and ethical system in which we all exist. Tony Worgan, Head of BBC Coaching and Mentoring, BBC Leadership & Personal Development, UK Coaching was once the domain of the privileged few, or perhaps reserved as a tool to be used for remedial cases. However, both the coaching industry and organisations have matured and now coaching is increasingly seen as way of achieving substantial and sustained change. As coaches, we are arguably uniquely placed to influence organisational thinking to pierce the organisational conscience. Without doubt, coaching is a force for good, and this book, 'Systemic Coaching' challenges us all to be an even greater force for good. Whether you are an Individual, team coach or a supervisor, through the themes explored, through the well thought through questions asked together with the case studies, the book holds up a challenging mirror to our practices. Like any well-placed coaching questions, they are designed to make us sit up and think. Many coaches work as individuals or in small practices, perhaps ploughing a lonely furrow, maybe wondering if they are actually making a difference. I was delighted therefore to read in the final chapter about the 'call to action' and for each of us to 'raise our game'. We often encourage our coachees to dream big, to imagine what might be possible, and so on. Well, just imagine what kind of paradigm shift we could achieve by collectively rising to the challenge of the 'call to action'. Tim Dench, Head of Coaching & Mentoring, Euroclear, UK This book offers a blueprint for the next stage in the evolution of coaching. It blends a call to coaches for deeper personal development with an expansion of Peter's highly regarded systemic approach to include an ecological commitment. May it inspire you to join the necessary revolution. Dr David Drake, CEO, Moment Institute, founder of narrative coaching, USA Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual" takes coaching to a whole new level. It challenges coaches to raise their game further byfocusing on the positive difference they are and could be making in the human and more-than-human world. I highly recommend this to coaches, mentors, supervisors and leaders. Dr Marshall Goldsmith, World-renowned business educator, coach and author, USA This splendid new book from master coaches Peter Hawkins and Eve Turner is a major contribution to the growing field of New Generation Coaching: coaches committed to partnering with leaders in service to a better world. Clearly structured, addressing their theme of systemic coaching from every angle, and offering a rich range of examples, case studies and guidelines, the authors pull no punches. They address the key questions we need to a…