Global virtual working across cultures and the use of manager-as-coach programmes have been increasing. Although some research on culture in coaching virtual coaching and the manager-as-coach exists separately few studies have been undertaken on the line manager as a coach in a virtual and crosscultural setting....
The purpose of this action research project is to understand how a coach’s own cultural lens impacts his/her coaching. Fourteen internal coaches from a government human resources organization in British Columbia were introduced to Rosinski’s Cultural Orientations Framework (COF) through education and self-assessment....
This paper describes three mentorship workshops facilitated in Fiji which were part of 11 such sessions recently conducted throughout the Pacific island region....
This paper proposes that raising culturally-bound awareness and building culturally-appropriate responsibility constitute the essence of good inter-cultural coaching practice....
Indigenous knowledge in coaching and coach training is key to Southern Africa’s leadership development and the re-connection to more human and community-centred ways of being. Indigenous knowledge is potentially an important aspect of transformation and redress as well as a unique and valuable resource across disciplines....
This article reports on a study that assessed professional cross-cultural coaches’ awareness and interpretation of ‘global mindedness’....
The importance of a cultural perspective in coaching is increasingly significant for coaching practitioners and academics living in a globalised world. The question remains as to how the coaching methods rooted in the Western approach can be applied in the context of other (national) cultures....
Dr Alastair Macfarlane is a management practitioner consultant and coach in the international domain. In this interview he explains how he takes a holistic approach to the preparation for an international assignment....
This article describes a new conceptual approach to youth spiritual development positing it as a universal aspect of positive youth development and presents initial empirical evidence for the cross-cultural validity of this theory....
Understanding institutional systems is critical for the advancement of women's participation in leadership in varying contexts. A unique and global analysis of the contextual factors that affect women in political leadership this paper extends prior research in the field....
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