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Dean O'Hare, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chubb Corporation
"Philippe Rosinski is a leader in the coaching field. Coaching Across Cultures reveals his pioneering multi-cultural approach and innovative global perspective. His book is a treasure for anyone eager to learn how to effectively facilitate human fulfilment and responsible growth"
Laura Berman Fortgang, author of Take Yourself to the Top and Living Your Best Life
"By integrating effective coaching practices with intercultural know-how and sensibilities, Philippe Rosinski's Coaching Across Cultures will serve personal and executive coaching practitioners from around the world for many years to come.
Articulate, insightful, eminently practical, and fueled by his rich experience and deep humanity, Rosinski, moreover, convincingly makes the case for linking our personal and organizational goals with those of our communities and our planet as a whole. He makes, thereby, a much needed contribution to helping us think and act systemically - globally and locally."
Michael H. Hoppe, Ph.D. Senior Research & Program Associate, Center for Creative
Leadership
"Philippe Rosinski brings a depth of cultural understanding and awareness to the field of coaching. His work is wonderful and much needed!"
Talane Miedaner, author of Coach Yourself to Success
"For those who are managing across countries and regions and who are willing to get the best out of that rich melting pot of cultures across all operating companies, just read Coaching Across Cultures! You will find Philippe Rosinski's book highly stimulating."
Olivier Desforges, Senior Vice President, Unilever
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Cross-Cultural Understanding for Coaches,
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This review is from: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences (Paperback)
This is the first, and currently only, book on coaching cross-culturally. The author brings the multifaceted perspective of culture into the coaching equation. The book starts with an introduction to coaching and culture and then goes in depth in cultural perspectives. The author wraps up the book with a couple chapters integrating all this into coaching practice.
Coaching is defined as "the art of facilitating the unleashing of people's potential to reach meaningful, important objectives" (page 4). Surprisingly there is nothing distinctly cross-cultural in the definition. Such as "the art of facilitating in culturally relevant ways the unleashing of people's potential..." This definition could come from any book on coaching. Culture is defined broadly to include not just nations and peoples, but corporate culture as well. The real meat of the book is the second section, nearly half the text. The author presents a series of Cultural Orientations each with tools for how to assess them through coaching. Orientations such as a sense of power and responsibility, time, identity and purpose, organization and communication each have a chapter devoted to them. The author begins each chapter with a presentation of the various cultural perspectives on the Orientation, for example, concerning time there are grids of scarce or plentiful; one activity at a time or multiple tasks; and past, present or future orientation. The author presents a tool for the coach to understand the client's orientation, and for the client (and teammates) to understand himself or herself. The final section is a synthesis of the theory into practice. The author illustrates how he uses his detailed Cultural Orientation grid during coaching sessions. This book is helpful for those interested in the cross-cultural issues. The book gets a bit lost in trying to reach a wide audience by focusing on at least three audience needs: skills for coaching people of other cultures, cross-cultural team awareness, and personal cultural awareness. The niche this book best fits would be a multicultural team trying to understand each other and how a team leader might coach them through that process of understanding.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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helps avoid a cultural gaffe!,
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This review is from: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences (Paperback)
Having just completed training a group of managers from across Europe in coaching skills, the opportunity to consider my experiences alongside the concepts explained here was timely indeed.
In Coaching Across Cultures, the author Philippe Rosinski attempts to blend two domains of leadership: coaching and diversity. In Part 1 Rosinski outlines his views on coaching fundamentals such as how the term is defined, the different types of professional coaching and the coaching process. For readers familiar with coaching there is little here that will be new, but for those with less experience or those seeking a good refresher, the section neatly captures current thinking in an accessible format. In Part 2 readers are introduced to the Cultural Orientations Framework which seeks to identify and quantify areas of cultural difference such as approaches to time management and communication. Rosinski takes time in this section to outline several dimensions of cultural orientation and to illustrate how coaches can work within these contexts to best allow the potential of the coachee to shine through. It is this part of the book which contains the most practical ideas many of which I will try the next time I meet my group of European managers. The book concludes with a 3rd part which outlines Rosinski's Global Scorecard, a model that attempts to encourage coaches and coachees alike to work towards a range of objectives from the deeply personal to those that might impact much wider communities. Coaching Across Cultures is a reasonably well written book with a structure that enables readers to pick topics of particular interest or to read straight through. It is good to see a book on coaching featuring genuine organisational case studies, but here only 2 or 3 organisations are featured. The book might also disappoint readers looking for brand new concepts, as it is ultimately a synthesis of existing ideas including Transactional Analysis and NLP.
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Don't bother if you ONLY deal with people JUST like you.,
By Roberta Hill - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences (Paperback)
Let me be clear, I don't finish reading books these days unless they are good and I certainly don't bother writing reviews unless I think the book is top notch. So it is a pretty safe bet that if you like any of the other books that I have reviewed, you will like this one.Coaching Across Cultures is another one of those - must have books - for any serious coach working with professionals. Even if you are not interested in an international practice, (and who isn't) this book still is required reading. The book is really about understanding and integrating our differences. Rosinski who lives currently in Belgium, is an Engineer and a MCC by training who has worked in Silicon Valley. The book is a bit of a smorgasbord. However, it is well designed and packaged so that each section can be considered a self contained component on cultural issues. Part One makes the case for a cultural framework when coaching and points out the dangers of our assumptions and belief systems when working with others of any origin or background. Part Two provides a high level overview of the key components of developing a cross cultural mindset. Although generalized in content, it also provides concrete examples and practical applications of how this plays out in our interactions with others. Part Three is a bit more conceptual and is well suited to those who come from an organizational development perspective. Roskinski has created his own Global Scorecard approach that is tied into his Cultural Orientations Framework. For my reading, it seems thorough, usable and comprehensive. Coaching Across Cultures is well documented with references, a glossary and some interesting appendixes. There is little to find fault. Perhaps that is because, Rosinski himself is careful never to find fault. He is a great diplomat and finds a place for all styles and approaches whether it is the transactional techniques of some North American coaching styles to the transformational style of others. If there is one area that I find a little weak, it is his discussion of self-assessment as a precursor the organizational assessment through his Global Scorecard. Now I am the first to admit that assessments are not only my area of interest, it is my business - so I have a bias. That said, I found Rosinski focus on the tools he prefers (the MBTI specifically) left me with the impression that this is THE tool. I also believe that this was not Roskinki's intention - as he does mention a few others but not some that I would have expected. Now don't get me wrong, I love the MBTI and the others he includes but I thought that at least a few more should have been mentioned or acknowledged. This is a solid, well-written and great new contribution to the field of coaching and working within the global setting. Don't just get this book - read it. I can almost guarantee it will have a positive affect on how you will interact in the future with your clients. 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cross-Cultural Understanding for Coaches,
By Keith E. Webb "Cross-Cultural Leadership Coac... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences (Paperback)
This is the first, and currently only, book on coaching cross-culturally. The author brings the multifaceted perspective of culture into the coaching equation. The book starts with an introduction to coaching and culture and then goes in depth in cultural perspectives. The author wraps up the book with a couple chapters integrating all this into coaching practice.
Coaching is defined as "the art of facilitating the unleashing of people's potential to reach meaningful, important objectives" (page 4). Surprisingly there is nothing distinctly cross-cultural in the definition. Such as "the art of facilitating in culturally relevant ways the unleashing of people's potential..." This definition could come from any book on coaching. Culture is defined broadly to include not just nations and peoples, but corporate culture as well. The real meat of the book is the second section, nearly half the text. The author presents a series of Cultural Orientations each with tools for how to assess them through coaching. Orientations such as a sense of power and responsibility, time, identity and purpose, organization and communication each have a chapter devoted to them. The author begins each chapter with a presentation of the various cultural perspectives on the Orientation, for example, concerning time there are grids of scarce or plentiful; one activity at a time or multiple tasks; and past, present or future orientation. The author presents a tool for the coach to understand the client's orientation, and for the client (and teammates) to understand himself or herself. The final section is a synthesis of the theory into practice. The author illustrates how he uses his detailed Cultural Orientation grid during coaching sessions. This book is helpful for those interested in the cross-cultural issues. The book gets a bit lost in trying to reach a wide audience by focusing on at least three audience needs: skills for coaching people of other cultures, cross-cultural team awareness, and personal cultural awareness. The niche this book best fits would be a multicultural team trying to understand each other and how a team leader might coach them through that process of understanding. 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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STERN'S MANAGEMENT REVIEW RATES THIS BOOK EXCELLENT!,
By Gerry Stern "Stern's Management Review Online" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences (Paperback)
The book is not solely dedicated to the international arena but for everyone who works with people from different organizations and backgrounds. The author's aim is to raise the level of awareness of cultural orientations and suggests how to use differences constructively. The book breaks out of the usual confines of cultural assumptions to find creative solutions. It introduces coaching and cross-cultural concepts, provides a framework for integrating coaching and cultural perspectives, and examines numerous cultural orientations. Rosinski presents a Culture Orientations Framework to assess and profile culture, and a Global Scorecard to help set targets at all levels. Chapters discuss how to leverage power and responsibility, time management, identity and purpose, organizational arrangements, notions of territory and boundaries, communication patterns, and modes of thinking. This is a very thoughtful treatment of an unusual and highly important subject.
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