Coaching for Sustained Collaboration – 6 CCEs in Core Competencies

Leaders often think about collaboration somewhat narrowly: as a value to cultivate but not always a skill to teach. Ask any leader whether his or her organization values collaboration, and you’ll get a resounding yes, but asking if efforts for sustainable collaboration have been successful, and you’ll probably receive a different answer.

Using the ICF Core Competencies with your leadership clients allows them to engage in a coach approach with their own leaders to increase awareness across many topics relating to sustainable collaboration including: spreading respect for colleagues’ contributions, openness to experimenting with others’ ideas, and sensitivity to how one’s actions may affect both colleagues’ work and the mission’s outcome. How positive outcomes can be driven and negative behaviors like distrusting others and obsessing about their own status can be minimized.