5 top tips to Systems Psychodynamic Coaching

A systems psychodynamic approach allows coaches to work at depth, to tackle the hard to reach issues that are limiting the performance of organisations, teams and leaders.  This method of executive coaching is often necessary to uncover “what’s really going on” and here are five tips to working successfully with the systems psychodynamic approach.

1. Emotion is Data

As professionals we are often encouraged to leave our emotions to one side. We are trained to work with our logic, but work can evoke irrational feelings.  For example, someone can feel excited, competitive, miserable, angry or happy; merely as a result of a conversation with a peer or boss. Emotions are the undertow at work and if left unattended, can trip us up in the most unexpected ways.

In the systems psychodynamic approach to coaching, the emotions we experience in the room with a client are used to inform our work.  We believe they are a communication that needs attention.