White Papers

NEW! Coaching an Executive Team
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
While executive team coaching can significantly accelerate a team’s ability to operate more effectively, it is a methodology that is highly influenced by the style of the coach, the tools employed in its service, and the culture of the team to which it is applied. Therefore, teams must target the results they want to achieve and carefully consider which approaches will best suit their needs. To that end, this paper examines the process of executive team coaching, identifying the factors that have the greatest impact on success and providing a theoretical framework that has proven effective in practice. With this knowledge, executive teams can better determine whether and how to apply the methodology, and enter into a coaching process with greater intention.

Beyond Functional Expertise: A Business Imperative for Today's Leaders
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
Creating the environment, where talented, engaged employees have passion, drive, and the ability to proactively shape a company’s success goes far beyond functional expertise. To excel in a leadership role and display real value to an organization, executives must become adept at mobilizing human energy, shaping culture, and leading change. This white paper explores these skills in more depth and provides ideas for strengthening them in the competency portfolio of line executives.

Cultivating Global Leadership
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
Within the next twenty years, international trade is expected to more than double. Certainly developments of this scale necessitate new ways of working, requiring leaders to examine not only the strategies and structures of their organizations, but the skills their people need to operate in this new environment. This paper considers the skills required of global leaders, and suggests that those with the discipline to follow a deliberate development approach will, most likely, find themselves with a sustainable competitive advantage.

Developing Executive Teams
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
Teams at the executive level face a unique set of challenges: significant demands on their time, managing the balance of functional and organizational leadership, and learning how to be both nimble and effective as an executive team, to name just a few. Encompassing the results of our 2006 independent research study, this white paper is the result of nearly 100 senior executives from around the globe sharing their real-world experiences and practical advice on the development of executive teams.

Executive Coaching: Designing Your Organization's Strategy
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
While individual success is a goal inherent in all Executive Coaching models, the design of a comprehensive organizational coaching strategy is often overlooked. The goal of such a strategy is to develop the right blend of coaching talent, organizational supports, and measurement mechanisms to drive higher performance of individuals and organizations. With a clear strategy in place, communicated effectively to both coaches and clients, executive coaching can become a powerful tool for identifying the intersection of individual strengths with bottom-line results.

Shaping Organizational Culture: A Practitioner's Perspective
by Mindy L. Hall, Ph.D.
A companion piece to the Research Report from Peak Development’s independent research study “Shaping Organizational Culture: A Cross-Functional Study on Real-World Practice,” this white paper considers key findings from the study and offers practical advice for shaping culture within your organization.