Coaching Organizations
Is LionSong my full time J-O-B? No. A portion of my time is dedicated to working with employees, teams, and organizational leaders looking to optimize their experiences working collaboratively. In other words, I work as a coach. My site for coaching work is hollymaehaddock.com
Many vocational issues arise at work, of course, as people uncover their most natural calling and embody who they are. It is also a place where our capacity for and wounding around collaboration, power, authenticity, freedom and more come into play.
Since workplaces are where we spend so much of our time, it’s powerful to therapeutically coach whole systems, including their individual components. Coaching has a big impact on the success of the organization and the happiness of the people in the organization.
While living in Berlin I worked full-time at a tech startup as an in-house work coach. My role was to maintain conditions for healthy, creative culture in the organization at large, through individual sessions, team coaching, trainings, mediations, consultations to leadership, hr programming, culture audits, and research. Through this work I was introduced to models and methods for dynamic shared leadership in highly collaborative work, associated with agile, design thinking, and lean startup.
Since coming back to the United States and working independently, I’ve continued to spend some of my time with small, highly creative teams to enhance their group-based approach to innovation. I also coach individuals to better their experiences at work, helping with life-balance issues, mental health, vocation and personal development.
While organizational work naturally has a different language around it than LionSong, I understand the connection internally, as I am always intending to serve unity, no matter what I am doing.
My value proposition for organizations is that I provide therapeutically-informed coaching, training and consultation especially suited to innovative, team-based work. I particularly enjoy coaching teams who have ecology and ethics in mind, in settings where power-sharing is valued, and in which re-humanization of the organizational structure is already underway.
I wonder how, if, these two streams of service may at some point merge. We shall see :) Thanks for reading.
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