Coaching and Mentoring in the Asia Pacific

Coaching and mentoring as management approaches have spread rapidly across the Asia Pacific region. Basic concepts of supporting people in their learning, in their career journeys, and in the acquisition of wisdom are deeply rooted in all cultures, yet today, there is little agreement about what constitutes good practice. Coaching and Mentoring in the Asia Pacific is the first book to put coaching and mentoring into an Asia Pacific context - exploring the challenges, benefits and differences in application, both in concept and practice. Opening with a foreword from Anthony Grant, this book provides commentaries and practical case studies from a wide variety of countries, sectors and perspectives. The authors show how organizations in the Asia Pacific Region can make effective use of this powerful developmental tool, in cost-effective, culturally relevant ways. This book will be invaluable reading for students and practitioners based in, planning to work in, or curious about coaching and mentoring in the Asia Pacific.

Anna Blackman is an Associate Professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. She is also a Fellow of the Australian Human Resources Institute. Derrick Kon works on CEO challenges, strategy, global leadership development and innovation. He is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with ICF and a Certified Solution Focused Coach (CSFC) with multinationals, consulting and academic experience. David Clutterbuck is Special Ambassador for the European Mentoring & Coaching Council and Visiting Professor at three UK universities - Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam and York St John.

Part 1: Setting the Scene Chapter 1: A brief history of coaching and mentoring David Clutterbuck and Tammy Turner Chapter 2: Key challenges for coaching and mentoring in Asia-Pacific Derrick Kon and Anna Blackman Chapter 3: What does good practice look like? Anna Blackman and David Clutterbuck Chapter 4: Role and future of coaching supervision in Asia-Pacific Vimala Suppiah Part 2: Coaching Cases Chapter 5: Coaching in Thailand Chérie Carter-Scott Chapter 6: The Cross-Cultural Kaleidoscope(TM) Model: A Systems Approach to Coaching in the Asia-Pacific Region Jenny Plaister-Ten Chapter 7: Asia's unique leadership challenges Tony Mathers Chapter 8: Transitioning the new CEO while embedding a merger Padraig O'Sullivan Chapter 9: Technology Leader in Asia Ram Ramanathan Chapter 10: Are Leaders born or made? A tale of two executives Ross Swan Chapter 11: Auckland City amalgamation and culture development using traditional Maori concept of Kaiarahi Vanessa Fudge Chapter 12: Asia-Pacific Organizational Coaching Case Study Charlie Lang Chapter 13: Strength-Based Leadership & Team Coaching in Asia Pacific Doug MacKie Chapter 14: Empowering Women Leaders in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) David Pierce, Kasia Gurgul, Sue Hubbard and Anna Blackman Chapter 15: Leadership Coaching: an Australian context Julia Milner and Mike Armour Chapter 16: "The Different Me"-s: Using the multi-selves model for peak performance and alignment Marion Neubronner Chapter 17: High performance team coaching Morné Maritz Chapter 18: Coaching in Asia-Pacific from the perspective of the coachee Siqiwen Li, Anna Blackman and Alison Carter Part 3: Mentoring Cases Chapter 19: Can a 'white-fella' be mentored using traditional 'black-fella' wisdom? Akram Sabbagh Chapter 20: Mentoring within the Pacific Islands Christopher Nunn Chapter 21: The Mentoring for Effective Teaching program Peter Hudson and Sue Hudson Chapter 22: To Mentor or Not to Mentor: A Mentor Speaks Ya-Hui Kuo Chapter 23: Young Women in Leadership, Massey University Vasudha Bhide and Beth Tootell Chapter 24: Family Member Mentoring in Hawaii: Understanding the Influence of Culture on Mentors and Protégés Donnel Nunes Chapter 25: How to match mentors and mentees effectively George Quek Part 4: Conclusions Chapter 26: Lessons learnt David Clutterbuck, Anna Blackman and Derrick Kon