Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749466626 ISBN 13: 9780749466626

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2013

Synopsis

Published with the Association for Coaching, Diversity in Coaching explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching. The book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference. Understanding how diversity impacts upon coaching is a crucial element to coaching effectively in today's diverse society and can give coaches the edge when responding to their coachees need.

Written by an international team of coaching professionals, the book provides guidance on understanding diversity and how coaches can adapt coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences.It explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching, providing practical information to help coaches respond effectively to issues of diversity.

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Review:

"Whether you are a coach, a leader or the representative of an organization, please don't read this book, use it! Diversity in Coaching can make a positive difference for your organization, you co-workers and yourself." (Marshall Goldsmith)

"The book provides useful information for any organisation with a culturally diverse workforce... But Diversity for Coaching goes beyond the international differences; it also looks at gender and age issues." (Works Management)

"As coaching becomes increasingly cross-discipline, cross-gender and cross-cultural, coaches need to develop a strong awareness of where and how their own assumptions about clients may affect the quality and outcomes of the coaching relationship. This book provides prespectives from a wide range of cultures and traditions, and in doing so reflects the diversity of coaching itself." (Professor David Clutterbuck, Clutterbuck Associates Professor David Clutterbuck, Clutterbuck Associates)

"Longitudes and latitudes converge as together we unravel the conundrum of coaching global talent...Diversity in Coaching is a must-read. In sighful case studies, reflective yet pragmatic approaches gifted to the reader. I will be packing it for my next plane journey." (Angela ryan, Group HR Director Asia Pacifica, GroupM (WPP plc) Angela Ryan, Group HR Director Asia Pacifica, GroupM (WPP plc))

"This is a great step forward in the advancement of global coaching practices and will be of benefit not just to professional coaches. but managers who seek to develop a global coaching culture in their organizations." (Dee Dutta, former Global CMO, Sony Ericsson Dee Dutta, former Global CMO, Sony Ericsson)

"they do a sterling job in making coaches culturally and religiously aware when operating in different territories. It's a useful country-by-country guide, and there are differences when it comes to coaching." (Human Resources Human Resources)

Book Description:

Substantiates the need for culturally sensitive coaching and equips you with the key tools and knowledge to coach people of all different needs and backgrounds effectively

Shows coaches how to examine their own underlying values and assumptions in order to understand how these can impact on the client experience

Highlights new growth areas in coaching, such as Europe, Japan and China, providing you with global insights and future opportunities in coaching

About this edition

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0749466626
• ISBN 13: 9780749466626
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Passmore Jonathan