015: David Tate PhD: Coaching Family Business Teams

Join Dr. Krister Lowe and leading organizational coach Dr. David Tate for this week’s episode of The Team Coaching Zone Podcast.  David Tate is a licensed clinical psychologist, an executive coach and organizational consultant, an author and a Principal at Tate Consulting Group--a boutique consultancy that focuses on executive coaching and leadership advising, family owned and closely held enterprises, and organizational development.  He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Yale University where he received the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Award. He is the co-author of "Sink or Swim: How Lessons from the Titanic Can Save Your Family Business."  David is also a certified coach through the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching.  In this episode David shares stories and lessons learned coaching family business enterprises as well human service organizations.  He discusses the importance of managing three subsystems--the management system, the ownership system and the family system--when coaching family business teams.  Other themes explored in the episode include: introducing a coaching culture to a team, using the Team Emotional Intelligence Survey in team coaching, managing challenging individual personalities in team coaching, navigating power and generational dynamics, and more.  The episode is brimming over with tips and tools that all team coaches and team leaders will surely not want to miss!