Management Mastery Series

Welcome to a guidebook for managers and leaders navigating the challenges of our evolving world. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the global, unpredictable, and intense nature of our surroundings, necessitating both resilience and sensitivity. "Ubuntu Coaching and Connection Practices for Leader-Managers" leads by example, adapting established models to the current context.

This book introduces Ubuntu Coaching, offering tools for transformative coaching and showcasing stories of Ubuntu and connection practices from seasoned coaches. It provides practical day-to-day management advice within a transformational framework, emphasising holistic well-being, relational dynamics, and organisational cohesion. Readers will gain insights into Ubuntu coaching techniques, various intelligence perspectives, and team-centric tools that enhance adaptability.

Throughout the book, readers will find illustrative examples and exercises designed to heighten self-awareness, humanise the modern work environment, and promote teamwork across organisational structures.

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To read this book is to grow, to emerge a better human being and a more valuable leader.

Take this book home. Savour it. Let it accompany you. It is a treasure.

- Nancy Kline, author of Time To Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind, and

Founding Director of Time To Think Ltd, UK

This book gives us a rare and wide invitation to explore Ubuntu, an ancient way of being and

showing up. It shows up, indeed, in a powerful way in professional coaching, especially for teams.

Read it - your experience will be worth it.

- Magdalena Nowicka Mook, CEO: International Coaching Federation

Dr Dumisani Magadlela boasts 25+ years in human development, and is an accredited international executive coach, team coach, coach trainer, and leadership development facilitator.Dumi currently works with business leaders and executives across the private, public, multi-lateral, and non-profit sectors. He has extensive experience working across the African continent and collaborating globally with other coaches and clients. He is accredited by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council as a Senior Practitioner in Team Coaching, and is working towards credentials by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and by the Africa Board for Coaching, Consulting and Coaching Psychology (ABCCCP), as a Master Coach. 2016, Dumi was given the inaugural African Coach of the Year award by the ABCCCP.Dumi is an author on executive coaching, Ubuntu intelligence (UbuQ), Ubuntu coaching approaches, and human connection. He is a regularly featured speaker and panellist on topics relating to coaching, leadership, and people development. Dumi also recently featured as one of the speakers in a TEDx event convened by the University of South Africa (2021), talking about human connection through "conscious, mindful and intentional" greetings. Dumi is a frequent speaker on the African circuit.