Culture

Coaching Across Cultures by Rosinski Chapter 1

Drinking From the Same Well by Johnson Chapter 1

Drinking from the Same Well by Johnson Chapter 2

What is Coaching

Coaching Process - 3 steps (7)

Types

Leadership Development

"the art of facilitating the unleashing of people's potential to reach meaningful, important objectives" Page 4-5 breaks this definition down and explains each word fully.

Coaching is not the same as mentoring, therapy, consulting or teaching. p5-6 goes more into detail with that as well.

Step 1: Conducting your assessment. Be aware of "mental filters" - need to be aware of psychological, but also cultural filters (7-8)

Step 2: Articulating target objectives. "Consider success globally" and help coachee to set objectives that benefit them (8)

Step 3: Progressing toward these target objectives. Coaches have tools to help coachees attain the goals.(8)

Personal - focus on individual and self-care. They pay for the intervention (9)

Executive and Corporate - organization pays for the intervention, sessions are confidential, and service of multiple stakeholders (9). Need to understand the organization well. Triangular Contract (10)

Team - mixture of the "masculine" consulting and "famine" (11)

Train leaders to be coaches benefits the organization (12-15)

Coaching Tool: learning journal

Culture is hard to define, but it is noted that there is a "need to broaden our conceptualizations of culture" (2) Page 12 tackles it from a theological standpoint by asking what is human: universal, cultural, and individual (12-13)

Geert Hofstede's cultural differences "Four dimensions of selfhood": individualism-collectivism, high/lower power distance, high/low uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity/femininity cultures (5-7)

Dilemma of Cross-Cultural Understanding: listening, attending to the careseeker's cultural behavior, asking the appropriate questions, and making use of available knowledge (8-11) Must be willing to learn and not assume you know.

Augsburger calls for a "Jesus culture" for all pastoral care relationships (14-15)

Worldview is also like the air we breathe. "Culture is largely determinative of our worldview, along with our religious tradition" (21)

Culture is like the air that we breathe (3)

"Worldviews are not only composed of our attitudes, values, opinions, and concepts; they...also affect how we think, define events, make decisions and behave" (23)

"value orientations": time, activity, relationships, and nature (23-27)

Coaches must seek to understand the worldview of the coachee or if in your dominant culture, need to help the coachee adapt to the new culture (29)

Universal Values: continuity, security, conformity (30-31)

Christian Worldview: "we cannot ignore, downplay, or undermine our deeply held Christian center of value in any cross-cultural caregiving relationship" (32)But, we need to make sure that our own "traditions" are are Christian and not just traditions.