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

Passmore, Jonathan

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9780749450793: Diversity in Coaching: Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749450797 ISBN 13: 9780749450793

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2009

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Understanding how diversity impacts coaching is a crucial element to coaching effectively in today’s diverse society and can give coaches the edge when responding to the needs of their coachees. This book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, cultural, national, racial, and generational difference.

Each chapter is written by a coach who specializes in coaching in specific countries or to specific groups. They provide guidance on understanding diversity and how coaches can adapt coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences.

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About the Author:

Jonathan Passmore is an occupational psychologist and a coaching supervisor. He has wide business consulting experience, having worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Business Consulting and OPM, and as a chief executive and company chairman in the sports leisure sector. He is based at the School of Psychology, University of East London, and is Director for the Coaching and Coaching Psychology programs. He is the author of several books and editor of Excellence in Coaching and Psychometrics in Coaching.

Review:

"A reliable resource for any professional eager to learn more about coahcing's cross-cultural nuances and applications." -- T+D

"One of the book's greatest values is the emphasis upon 'culturally sensitive coaching.'" -- dialogin.com

"[T]hey do a sterling job in making coaches culturally and religiously aware when operating in different territories." - Human Resources

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