Embedding a Coaching Culture: Opportunities, Strategies, and Challenges
African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century
ISBN: 978-1-80117-046-8, eISBN: 978-1-80117-045-1
Publication date: 14 March 2023
Abstract
This chapter presents the opportunities, strategies, and challenges related to an effort to embed a leadership coaching culture into the culture of an academic institution in Nairobi, Kenya. That effort has been the work over the past several years of four Certified Organizational Effectiveness Coaches trained by Coach Development Institute of Africa. Each tells the story of how and why she moved into coach training and why she views coaching as key to driving social change. The chapter describes the strategies they are using to address opportunities they see and challenges they have encountered. The chapter also presents their preliminary thoughts on a coaching model influenced by both Western approaches and African cultural beliefs, values and attitudes.
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Citation
Abuor, J.A., Alicea, M., Bombard, P.M., Mutiso, M., Ochanda, F., Vaughan, K.M. and Vincent, N.J. (2023), "Embedding a Coaching Culture: Opportunities, Strategies, and Challenges", Elkington, R., Ngunjiri, F.W., Burgess, G.J., Majola, X., Schwella, E. and de Klerk, N. (Ed.) African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms for the 21st Century, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 187-202. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-045-120231014
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2023 Jacqueline A. Abuor, Marisa Alicea, Patricia M. Bombard, Margaret Mutiso, Florence Ochanda, Kathleen M. Vaughan and Neil J. Vincent