What Women Want Coaches to Know: A Gender-Intelligent Coaching Approach (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781991272133)

What Women Want Coaches to Know: A Gender-Intelligent Coaching Approach, recognises the necessity of creating safe spaces for women to explore their dreams, hopes, goals, and purpose. It captures the diverse experiences, opinions, strengths, perspectives and incredible value that women bring, it celebrates their journeys and stories so that they might progress and inspire and uplift others.
Through this women-centric coaching approach, women are encouraged to embrace their authentic selves, pursue self-discovery, build confidence, overcome self-doubt, embrace their potential, and develop skills necessary to navigate a complex world.

Key Themes

Patriarchy and Gender Bias: The first chapter explores the pervasive nature of patriarchy and its impact on working women. It uses metaphors to convey the widespread effects of sexism, emphasizing the need for a gender-intelligent coaching approach.Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion in Coaching: This chapter examines the current state of the coaching profession, questioning whether it adequately addresses issues of diversity, equality, and inclusion, and considers its stance on patriarchy and gender dynamics.Developing a Gender-Intelligent Coaching Approach: Here Rosieda delves into the conceptualization and evolution of the gender-intelligent coaching approach, stressing the importance of defining coaching frameworks, models, and tools.The W-O-M-A-N Coaching Model: The author details the creation of the W-O-M-A-N coaching model, including "Dear Coach" letters that enhance women's engagement and provide guideposts for navigating this model.Theoretical Underpinnings of Gender-Intelligent Coaching: This section summarises the theoretical foundations that support the gender-intelligent coaching framework, explaining how these theories shape gendered coaching interventions.Future of Coaching looks ahead, emphasising the importance of adopting a gender-intelligent coaching approach to foster a more inclusive and equitable world.

What Women Want Coaches to Know: A Gender-Intelligent Coaching Approach aims to inspire coaches to adopt practices that not only enhance women's leadership skills but also help them navigate systemic gender biases. Rosieda's journey from dealing with imposter syndrome to becoming an advocate for gender-intelligent coaching highlights the transformative potential of this approach in creating a globally equitable coaching profession.

Author: Rosieda Shabodien
ISBN-10: 1991272138
ISBN-13: 9781991272133
Publisher: KR Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2024
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d