Business Coaching: Wisdom and Practice
Business Coaching: Wisdom and Practice
Description
The book provides a revealing overview of the entire coaching process, examining the latest theoretical trends and cutting-edge theories and providing practical advice: from how to pursue your own professional development to drawing up a contract with clients. There is a handy, wide-ranging assessment of the bewildering array of coaching models, helpful clarifications about core competences, existential and experiential learning factors, and detailed advice on question frameworks. Here, too, is guidance on the need for supervision, and an examination of ethical dilemmas which face all coaches and mentors. Of particular interest to South Africa is the in-depth study by Marti Janse van Rensburg on diversity, personality and cultural complexity. Dr Stout Rostron also explores your clients' existential issues and discusses the crucial impact of the "coaching relationship." Dr Sunny Stout Rostron coaches at senior executive and board level, and has a wide range of experience in leadership development and business strategy. Director of Sunny Stout-Rostron Associates, she is a Research Mentor for the Institute of Coaching at Harvard/McLean Medical School, and a non-executive director with Resolve Encounter Consulting in Johannesburg.