Developing global leaders: Executive coaching targets cross-cultural competencies

✍ Scribed by Katherine Handin; Janet S. Steinwedel

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 146 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1932-2054
• DOI: 10.1002/joe.20118

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Leaders working with colleagues from other cultures or heading multicultural teams may find themselves stymied by their own apparent ineffectiveness and bewildered by the reactions of others. A new model of executive coaching can help individuals transform lifelong conditioning and personal assumptions into new beliefs and behaviors needed for cross‐cultural collaboration and leadership. The coachee draws on three core ethnorelative values and behaviors—curiosity, cultivation, and collaboration—and uses communication skills and reflection techniques to delve beneath the surface of each situation. Through self‐awareness and appreciation for others, the coachee becomes a leader who can deftly navigate cultural differences to build rewarding and productive relationships. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.