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

ISBN-13: 9780749476588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 312 str.

Opis

Written by an international team of 21 coaching professionals from 10 countries, "Diversity in Coaching" provides guidance on understanding diversity and on adapting coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences. The contributors, including Mary Wayne Bush, Director of Research at the Foundation for Coaching, and Eddie Erlandson and Kate Ludeman of Work Ethic Corporation, look at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference.
This new edition includes chapters on coaching gay, lesbian and bisexual clients, coaching people with disabilities and working with mental health issues. "Diversity in Coaching" provides practical information to help coaches respond effectively to issues of diversity."

Diversity in Coaching, published with the Association for 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 todays 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.