Six Interconnected Perspectives for Coaching

Abstract

In this chapter, the author provides six interconnected perspectives that all great leaders should rely on to rally people to accomplish what is important to them: physical perspective, managerial perspective, psychological perspective, political perspective, cultural perspective, and spiritual perspective. Here, the author shares his experience of working with Annie, an accomplished senior executive with international experience who had been asked to lead the development of a promising invention: going through an extensive testing phase, obtaining the necessary compliance authorizations, and finally bringing the product to market. Annie's challenges were linked to the six interconnected perspectives for coaching. Among the various activities, the author invites Annie to map out the various stakeholders in her organization, diagnosing her relational and strategic proximity with them. This allowed her to start building internal alliances in a systematic way. In the end, Annie achieved a remarkable success and the new product she launched fulfilled its business breakthrough promise.