Past Articles

7 Tips For Coaching Chinese Clients, Players & Employees

By: CT Johnson • 4 years ago • One million. That’s how many of the people living in Australia right now were either born in China, or are the children of parents born in China. Quite suddenly, Chinese clients, players and...

Courage Through Cultural Innovation

Front line community work in Redfern, NSW is a training ground for the uninitiated. Cultures clash and boundary lines are constantly redrawn – often documented in the national media. It is a space where morality is tested and, for better...

Bernie Kelly

In 1986, I won third place in Toastmasters World Championship of public speaking and was named as one of five Young Australians of the Year. When these events launched my speaking career, I had just been adopted by Paul Dunn,...

Dr Tony Draper

By: Dr Tony Draper • 4 years ago • 15 years of coaching in the Asia Pacific region and 18 years before this in corporate roles with a global company has given me the opportunity to experience many cultures. I have...

Henley Coaching Culture

By: Patricia Bossons • 4 years ago • It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it – this is roughly where I’ve got to after a coaching career built from being a business psychologist a number of...

Cultural Intelligence – An essential tool for the professional coach

By: Louise Dunn • 4 years ago • In Australia’s contemporary environment, working with colleagues and clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds is a positive attribute of our day to day work, be it as trainers, coaches, managers or business...

THE CULTURAL CONNECTION CODE

By: KIA DOWELL • 4 years ago • As serendipity would have it, through a series of seemingly unrelated circumstances back in 2008, Kia Dowell and Chantal Harris found themselves working together to event manage the East Kimberley Aboriginal Achievement Awards....

BUILDING DIVERSITY

By: Denise Archie • 4 years ago • Changing the stereotypes one ‘voice’ at a time. I have always held the belief that teams are a mirror of their leaders. The behaviours and attitudes demonstrated by the leader are often reflected...

What we have in common

By: Christopher Paterson • 4 years ago • UNDERSTANDING OUR COMMONALITIES TO FACILITATE SUCCESS In an increasingly globalised and technologically integrated landscape, the coach is now being asked to facilitate success for individuals from increasingly diverse cultural backgrounds. This engagement may...

Coaching Across Cultures

By: Chip McFarlane • 4 years ago • Organisational coaching continues to make waves around the world. Its proven success means that its reach is extending across geographical borders. Arising in the US and UK in the early nineties, coaching became...