The Global Business Of Coaching

Coaching has become a global business phenomenon, yet the way that coaching has evolved and spread across the globe is not unproblematic. Some of these challenges include: different types/genres of coaching; understanding and relevance of different coaching philosophies and models in different cultural contexts; equivalency of qualifications and coach credentials, as well as questions over standards and governance, as part of a wider debate around professionalization. Coaching then, as with the transfer of knowledge and professionalization in other disciplines, is not immune to ethnocentricity. Through a combination of adopting a meta-analysis of coaching, supported with narratives of coaching practice drawn from different socio-political/cultural contexts, the aim of this book is to challenge current knowledge, understanding and norms of how coaching is, or should, be practised in different cultural contexts. This book will provide a foundation for further research in coaching as an academic field of study and as an emerging profession. It will resonate with critical scholars, coach educators, and coach practitioners who want to develop their praxis and enhance their reflexivity and be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business and leadership, human resource development, organizational learning and development, mentoring and coaching.

This book provides you with 7 cutting-edge, yet well-proven management tools to use coaching successfully in enterprises and structure its implementation and optimization in organisations. It also contains 23 practical case studies from all over the world, written by managers/directors responsible for coaching in their firms. Learning and Development (L&D), Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) directors and managers concerned with the implementation or improvement of coaching in their organisation, will find this guide an invaluable resource for their daily work in this area. Also CEOs, board members, directors, coaching providers, coaches and consultancies involved in coaching programmes will benefit from reading this book. Readers' comments: 'This is the best organizational coaching book I have ever read.' The 'Global Business Guide' is 'brilliant' and 'more than justifying its title'. 'The book is excellent in terms of depth, width, clarity and book design.' Author: Frank Bresser (Receiver of Global HR Excellence Award 2011) Editor: Amanda Bouch Available in book trade as paperback (colored cover; b/w) and/or ebook (colored)

An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization. This important new handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of international business coaching, drawing on the very latest academic research, as well as real-world examples of international best practice. This book provides practitioners and students with an innovative theoretical framework, which extends existing coaching models to place coaching within cultural, organizational and group-team contexts. Contributors from around the world explore different perspectives and practices and offer practical tools to apply the theories and models to the real-life business context. The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching is essential reading for all trainee business coaches, all students of coaching theory and method, and for all business leaders looking to understand better the role of the modern business coach.

This important new handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of international business coaching, drawing on the very latest academic research, as well as real-world examples of international best practice.

You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.'- Carol Kauffman PhD, co-founder and Director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. 'This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach and addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition.'- David Megginson, Professor of Human Resource Development, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary-no question- but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to BIG growth in your company. In his first book, Make BIG Happen, Mark Moses outlined the four questions that formed the foundation of CEO Coaching International, an executive coaching firm that has helped over 875 companies reach extraordinary revenue and EBITDA growth. Now, in Making BIG Happen, CEO Coaching International's proven set of best practices have been translated into a simple three-step process, supported by over 30 tools, to show leaders how to achieve extraordinary business growth.

"This book provides you with 7 cutting-edge, yet well-proven management tools to use coaching successfully in enterprises and structure its implementation and optimization in organisations. It also contains 23 practical case studies from all over the world, written by managers/directors responsible for coaching in their firms. Learning and Development (L & D), Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Development (OD) directors and managers concerned with the implementation or improvement of coaching in their organisation, will find this guide an invaluable resource for their daily work in this area. Also CEOs, board members, directors, coaching providers, coaches and consultancies involved in coaching programmes will benefit from reading this book. Readers' comments: 'This is the best organizational coaching book I have ever read.' The 'Global Business Guide' is 'brilliant' and 'more than justifying its title'. 'A groundbreaking work. We have been looking for such a book for a long time.' 'A real piece of art. It is so relevant to our needs.' 'The book is excellent in terms of depth, width, clarity and book design.' 'The knowledge created by the book will take coaching to a higher level across the globe.'"--Publisher's description.

An essential reference book for you and your global organization, Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business will guide you through the challenge of producing effective executives and masterminding learning organizations. In this cutting-edge overview, you'll share in the success stories of some of the most tried-and-true, top-selling authors in the world such as Peter Senge and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Considered a “must-have” handbook for development managers, Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business gives you a unique perspective on the major challenges you'll face when setting up your executive education program. Anyone creating a comprehensive game plan for a large global organization will want to be familiar with the informative practices in this book. In its concise and straightforward chapters, you'll read about: cross-cultural challenges of executive development tools and techniques for developing international executives experiential issues and action learning in global organizations anticipatory learning for global concerns Today, more than ever, piloting your global organization through a world of changing management systems and executive development programs can be overwhelming. But the unique perspectives you'll find in this time-saving collection will start you off right. So, whether you're a human resource development practitioner, a human resource executive, or an academic in human resource development, you'll profit from the bevy of intellectual insight and real-world experience that some of the world's most successful authorities have organized for you in the pages of Executive Development and Organizational Learning for Global Business.