Monday, August 20, 2007

Coaching & Culture


Does culture effect coaching? You bet it does!

I've noticed that most coaching training originated from cultures that could be described as individualistic and egalitarian - countries like Australia, Britain, and the United States.

However, much of the world is group oriented and hierarchical in their cultural ways of behaving. The peoples of Arab-speaking countries, China, Greece, Indonesia, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Singapore, Turkey, West Africa, in fact, the majority of the world's population follow these cultural tendencies .

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1 comment:

Rod Talbot said...

Coaching in a mutli cultural setting sure has its challenges. Been doing it from a Western point of view for some years but learning to back off and allow interactive ideas to flow. Still think too Western though. Rod Talbot