About The Book
This book has been designed as an informational text for the general public to gain an understanding of coaching and how coaching can be used to benefit individuals, teams, and organisations. A second purpose for the book is as a supplementary text for students studying the various coaching courses delivered by the Australian Institute of Professional Coaches.
Each chapter is designed to provide a window of information into a particular area of coaching concern starting with how coaches help individuals gain self-awareness and insight, teams become more interpersonally effective, and organisations more successful especially during cultural and transformational change.
This book has been designed for organisational leaders and HR professionals who are most usually entrusted with the responsibility for developing a coaching culture in their organisation. It is a step-by-step guide to how coaching transforms individuals and teams, leading to a complete transformation of the organisation’s culture. The aim of the book is to inform, persuade, and influence leaders to better understand coaching and how it can be used to benefit all employees in the organisation, not just a few.
Developing a coaching culture is a journey over four stages and many years. It requires the dedication and commitment of a senior executive team to make coaching a strategic priority to which recurrent funding is allocated. Individuals who have experienced being coached are in the best position to appreciate how revelationary coaching can be and understand how it can be used as a lens through which to analyse every business transaction to leverage increased productivity and competitive advantage. When a coaching culture has been achieved, coaching becomes part of the DNA and fabric of the organisation and coaching occurs naturally on a daily basis.