The main difference between the standard leadership coaching and systemic coaching is that the client is not only the person sitting next to the coach, but also the whole system that they bring along.
This is particularly important in the executive coaching with leaders at higher management levels who can significantly influence the organisational functioning and the organisational culture.
Systemic coaching means looking at the client’s questions and coaching goals through systemic lenses, thus seeing not only the needs of the individual coachee, but the needs of the system as well.
The systemic coaching helps leaders develop their systemic intelligence, which in turn helps them understand their systems better and rethink their own role as leaders in order to serve the whole system in the best possible way.