The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching: Leveraging Western and Eastern Principles and Practices for Success

December 3, 2025

The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching: Leveraging Western and Eastern Principles and Practices for Success

Sim Cheok (Janice) Tan | 2016

Abstract

This manuscript seeks to answer the question: “What is the ‘right-fit’ for leadership coaching practice to support Malaysian leaders to develop their leadership talents and behavior?” The primary intention of this manuscript is to introduce the Right-Fit Leadership Coaching Model, a balanced leadership coaching practice, using the Western way of explaining leadership coaching but utilizing Malaysia’s cultural values and within the local cultural context. Right-Fit leadership coaching has to be culture-specific. The Right-Fit leadership style coaching harmonizes the Malaysian culture with the most effective Western coaching theories and practices to elevate leadership practices in Malaysia. The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching Model has two parts, the leaders’ transformational component, and the coaching component. Firstly, the leaders’ transformational component consists of honoring values, principles of change, learning, and leading, leadership competencies, and the transformational leadership style. Secondly, the coaching component includes coaching skills – active listening, questioning, and feedback, and coaching support – support, encouragement, and accountability. The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching focuses on coaches designing a coaching framework within the local cultural context to support their clients to develop transformational leadership behavior to lead followers and organizations forward. The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching is an honoring relationship where coaches honor their clients’ ability to change, learn, and develop new leadership behavior to lead and transform their followers and organizations to new frontiers. The Right-Fit Leadership Coaching template also exemplifies how cross-border leadership coaching could work for coaching leaders from diversified cultures, team-coaching to a diversified group of team members, foreign coaches working in their host countries, and other coaching involving diversity areas.

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