Diversity in Coaching Working with Gender, Culture, Race and Age [Paperback]

Written by an international team of 21 coaching professionals from 10 countries,Diversity in Coachingprovides guidance on understanding diversity and on adapting coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local demands and cultural preferences. The contributors, including Mary Wayne Bush, Director of Research at the Foundation for Coaching, and Eddie Erlandson and Kate Ludeman of Work Ethic Corporation, look at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference. 

This new edition includes chapters on coaching gay, lesbian and bisexual clients, coaching people with disabilities and working with mental health issues.Diversity in Coachingprovides practical information to help coaches respond effectively to issues of diversity.Practical information to help coaches respond effectively to issues of diversity

Whether you are a coach, a leader or the representative of an organization, please don't read this book, use it!Diversity in Coachingcan make a positive difference for your organization, you co-workers and yourself. --Marshall Goldsmith, author ofWhat Got You Here Won't Get You There

The book provides useful information for any organisation with a culturally diverse workforce... ButDiversity for Coachinggoes beyond the international differences; it also looks at gender and age issues. --Works Management

As coaching becomes increasingly cross-discipline, cross-gender and cross-cultural, coaches need to develop a strong awareness of where and how their own assumptions about clients may affect the quality and outcomes of the coaching relationship. This book provides perspectives from a wide range of cultures and traditions, and in doing so reflects the diversity of coaching itself. --Professor David Clutterbuck,Clutterbuck Associates

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