Coaching Models - A Cultural Perspective: A Guide to Model Development: For Practitioners and Students of Coaching (Electronic book text)

Interest in the field of coaching has exploded over the past decade, bringing with it a pressing need for quality control. To achieve high levels of quality and fully support their clients, coaches must become acutely aware of their strengths and values. Rather than relying on intuition or someone else's method, coaches need to incorporate their unique perspectives into their own coaching models. Only then can they align themselves with clients who may have very different (or possibly conflicting) individual strengths and cultural values. Coaching model development can fulfill the need for high-quality coaching, raising the bar for both coach training and practice.

Coaching Models: A Cultural Perspective encourages and assists students and practitioners of business coaching to develop and apply their own coaching models. Not only will coaches and clients benefit from such models, the entire field of coaching will benefit from having coaches who use their models to continually improve their practice.

The first part of of the book presents the model development process by first looking at and understanding the relationship among culture, beliefs and behavior in the coaching context. The second part explains how coaches can use this understanding to develop their own coaching methods, apply them to specific contexts, and reflect on their interactions to refine their core coaching practices. The third and final part of describes the evolution of the author's own coaching model - the Performance Coaching Model-illustrating how one coach incorporates unique perspectives and sets of skills, knowledge and experience in her coaching practice.