Championing Organizational Wellness: Coaching Triangulation optimally positions leaders, aspiring leaders, and organizations to excel in global, multi-cultural landscapes
Championing Organizational Wellness: Coaching Triangulation optimally positions leaders, aspiring leaders, and organizations to excel in global, multi-cultural landscapes
Anthony Simmons | 2022
Abstract
Leading amid g– lobal, multi-cultural landscapes requires organizations to embrace leadership development methodologies that are conducive to identifying with aspiring leaders (coachees) of disparate social, ethical, and cultural backgrounds. Under the current leadership constructs, organizations lack the wherewithal to impartially champion the careers of aspiring leaders owing to in-group favoritisms and ethical and cultural disconnects. These disparities serve as barriers to applying emotional intelligence (EI) to synthesize leaders and aspiring leaders of disparate backgrounds. To mitigate these impediments, leaders must sharpen their EI skills by self-assessing and navigating blind spots to identify and co-locate with aspiring leaders. Once the leaders and aspiring leaders are co-located, they can move symmetrically through a coaching triangle by leveraging a coaching conversation for empowerment and cultural homogeneity to optimally position the leader, aspiring leader, and the organization. This optimal position characterizes the performance apex for all three entities and represents organizational wellness. This book introduces a Coaching Triangulation methodology using an ends-means-ways operational design to champion this organizational wellness. The model is epochal in that a coach of any ethical, social, or cultural disposition can apply the framework to develop leaders of disparate cultures to sustain organizational wellness. Organizational wellness is the aggregate of organizational development and organizational sustainment.
The book consists of four Parts: Part I is the Introduction and Literature Review. Part II is the means which are Emotional Intelligence and Assessments, Navigating Blind Spots, and The Coaching Conversation. Part III is the ways which consist of Cultural Agnosticism and Empowerment through a Coaching Organization. Part IV is the conclusion which comprises the ends for Championing Organizational Wellness.
Chapter one offers an introduction which discusses leadership coaching, the problem it solves, and how the Coaching Triangulation methodology superimposed on the ends-means-ways operational design is appropriate for Championing Organizational Wellness amid disparate cultures. The model is catalyst to the leader and aspiring leader ascending symmetrically to achieve their performance apex for organizational wellness. Chapter two offers a Literature Review as the underpinning and overarching perspective on leadership coaching across global sectors.
In chapter three, the leadership coaches’ location is marked through the five components of EI and Self-assessments. Then chapter four expands on this location by helping the coach examine embedded Blind Spots that may have originated from EI and values deficiencies or misaligned values, generational disparities, cultural biases and disconnects, or ethnical behaviors. Once the distance between the leaders and aspiring leaders is determined, Chapter five illustrates the Coaching Conversation that allows the leader and aspiring to symmetrically move true north through intuitive listening, asking powerful questions, designing actions, and supporting the process. These three chapters exemplify the means for championing organizational wellness.
Chapters six, the first component of the ways for navigating the coaching triangle, highlights how to achieve Cultural Agnosticism through Cultural Ingratiation, Cultural Competence, and Culture Agility. Chapter seven offers the second component of the ways by illustrating how a Culture of Coaching empowers others through Servant-ship, Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, and Democratized Leadership.
The book concludes in chapter eight by sharing how Championing Organizational Wellness is manifested through the aggregate of Organizational Development (OD) and Organizational Sustainment (OS). It provides the blueprint for achieving OD by applying Strategic Communications and Strategic Human Resource Development processes, while OS is realized through the application of Coach-Protégé Programs and Intermediate Performance Reviews. In additional to Championing Organizational Wellness, this Coaching Triangulation model concludes with a high-performance leadership continuum that culminates into an autonomous leadership succession plan.