Executive coaching provides a uniquely challenging yet supportive working partnership that benefits individuals, teams and the organisation in which they work. Our research explores how particularly group coaching processes can lead to tipping points and meaningful change but also highlights challenges that coaches face particularly in group coaching settings.
KDVI’s Psychodynamic-Systemic Group Coaching Practicum is a transformational and highly practical programme to develop confidence and skills in psychodynamic-systemic group coaching.
Group Coaching Practicum Brochure, Apr 2021
After the initial COVID-19 lockdown and confinement, one of the key challenges companies, coaches and consultants face is how to re-engage its people. Group coaching can serve an invigorating and enriching journey to challenge and support individuals to make changes to their lives. It provides a transitional space where they are exposed to different insights, are challenged by others to confront feedback, engage in vicarious learning, and become embedded in a community of peer support and mutual accountability.
KDVI Research Lab, Nov 2020
Blogs
Virtual team coaching can help turn around dysfunctional teams
Effective organisations rely on teamwork, not least because it facilitates problem solving. Many leaders, however, are ambivalent about teams. They fear overt and covert conflict, uneven participation, tunnel vision, lack of accountability and indifference to the interests of the organisation as a whole. Also, more than a few have no idea how to put together well functioning teams. Their fear of delegating – losing control – reinforces the stereotype of the heroic leader who handles it all.
INSEAD Knowledge, Aug 2020
Blogs
The spontaneous eruption of musical offerings in the shadow of the Covid-19 crisis is a phenomenon that we have all witnessed and are aware of. But what if anything, do these musical offerings invoke and what in general does music offer us? This blog explores how music can add an element of playfulness to a reflective journey that can deepen ones understanding of self and how you are perceived by others.
KDVI Research Lab, May 2020
Blogs
“Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.”
Successful coaching involves working with – not against – an individual’s resistance.
INSEAD Knowledge, Aug 2018
Blogs
"Does a good coach have to be tough?"
The KDVI Research Lab is happy to announce yet another blog in our series that explores the undercurrents of positive organisational change. This time KDVI Associate Manfred Barth explores whether coaching needs to be tough in order to affect real change.
KDVI Research Lab, Dec 2017
Blogs
This book is all about helping coaches to become more effective. Each chapter presents a profile of a particular type of toxic executive—the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more—and offers coaches examples of interventions that have worked—and those that haven't. Kets de Vries offers expert advice from the front line of working with puzzling executives.
Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2015
Books
This book is a volume of essays on leadership development topics written by academics, coaches, and change consultants.
Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2015
Books
'Advantages of small group coaching"
This article describes the benefits of small group coaching in leadership development.
EFMD Global Focus: Volume 09 Issue 01, Nov 2015
Articles
"Group coaching second to none to have executives sing on the same page"
This article illustrates how group coaching can be a methodology second to none, to have executives sing on the same page—and accelerate execution. It is an intervention methodology increasingly utilised by premier strategic consulting firms.
Organizational Dynamics, Mar 2015
Articles
"Conundrums coaches face in their practice"
This article sheds light on the challenges facing coaches when undertaking the journey to becoming a group coach.
International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Nov 2014
Articles
"Executive coaches as modern day shamans"
This working paper discusses various similarities and differences between the healing practices of shamans and the work of therapists and executive coaches.
INSEAD Working Paper, Sep 2014
Working Papers
"Group coaching for team alignment"
This article discusses how to get things done by applying the group coaching methodology.
INSEAD Working Paper, May 2014
Working Papers
"Group coaching for meaningful change"
This blog entry explores how group coaching can serve as tipping points for real and meaningful change.
INSEAD Knowledge, May 2014
Blogs
"Peer coaching and strategy alignment"
This blog entry with the Harvard Business Review discusses how peer coaching interventions can make a huge difference to the implementation of a strategy or change initiative of an organisation.
Harvard Business Review, May 2014
Blogs
This book provides an in-depth look at the coaching process, considering the diversity of both individual and organisational learning through the lens of psychodynamic mindfulness.
Palgrave Macmillan, Apr 2014
Books
"Dreams as entry points to executive subconscious"
This working paper addresses how leadership coaches should also pay attention to their clients’ dreamtime to help executives with their journey into their own interior.
INSEAD Working Paper, Feb 2014
Working Papers
"Effectiveness of psycho- dynamic group coaching"
This article reports on the effectiveness of psychodynamic group coaching intervention technique practiced at a global business school.
International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Feb 2014
Articles
"Falling into the rescuer trap"
This blog entry with the Harvard Business Reviewe highlights a trap coaches and mentors can fall into—from being a 'helper' to a 'rescuer'.
Harvard Business Review, Dec 2013
Blogs
"The transformative power of executive coaching"
An interview with Manfred Kets de Vries about the transformative power of executive coaching.
OrganisationsEntwicklung, Jan 2013
Articles
"Self authoring to take control of our destiny"
This article addresses how in order to take control of our destiny and to create alternative destinations some of us may need an external intervention, one of which is the technique of self authoring.
Integral Leadership Review, Jan 2012
Articles
This book brings together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world and explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices.
Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2011
Books
"Creating tipping points for change"
In this working paper, the author explores the tipping point phenomenon and its different facets and effect on change.
INSEAD Working Paper, Sep 2011
Working Papers
The book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team and organisational levels.
Palgrave Macmillan, Jul 2010
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