Coaching on the Axis : Working with Complexity in Business and Executive Coaching

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE The complexity of client -- Who is the client? -- Understanding the duality of client -- Systems thinking -- Holism -- Circular causality -- Homeostasis -- CHAPTER TWO The complexity of culture -- What is culture? -- How culture emerges -- Organisational culture -- Leadership and organisational culture -- Attributes or typologies of organisational culture -- Coaching business culture -- A word on creating a "coaching culture" in organisations -- CHAPTER THREE The complexity of theory -- Business culture and the underlying assumptionsof science -- Integrative and eclectic approaches to theory -- The modern scientist-practitioner -- CHAPTER FOUR Introduction to the Coaching on the Axisframework -- The Coaching on the Axis tree -- CHAPTER FIVE The environmental dimension -- The environment below and above the surface -- Uncovering the individual's relational system -- Environmental goals and expectations -- Environmental sources of data -- Feedback is not just data -- The trouble with anonymous feedback -- Coaching using open feedback -- Creating a relational map with the client -- Environmental sources of theory -- CHAPTER SIX The individual dimension -- The individual below and above the surface -- Accessing the individual's story -- The roots of an individual's social and cultural identity -- Helping individuals manage power relations and rank -- Business coaching at the existential level -- Individual goals and expectations -- Individual sources of data -- A caution on using psychometrics in business coaching -- Individual sources of theory -- CHAPTER SEVEN The coaching relationship -- Working with purpose in the coaching relationship -- Goals are compasses not destinations.