Summary Of Integrative Coaching

1. Images of Organization

The author showed us how to use metaphors approach to describe things in an organization. Some images were applied to describe an organization and were divided into eight categories which are machine, organism, brain, culture, political system, psychic prison, transformation, and domination, which makes it earlier to understand how an organization operate in a visually effective way. Taking the organism for example, the organization is an organism like any other individuals and they need to get satisfied with particular organizational needs which are physiological, security, social, ego, and self-actualizing in terms of Maslow’s needs theory. The core of the book is to emphasis that It is essential to use clear image to describe an organization to understand its structure and behavior.

2. Coaching Research: Who? What? Where? When? Why?

Conducting coaching research will contribute to the development of coaching. However, doing the right coaching research is important due to researches are expensive in terms of time and efforts. The

This model includes six streams and flow together in a seamless way while the coach moving between streams in the movement. The streams are developing the coaching partnership, maintaining the coaching partnership, behavioral focus, conscious cognition, unconscious cognition, systemic. among these streams, the model works as: first, it is essential to stay a coaching partnership with the coachee otherwise it is hard to improve performance at work. By doing so, it is not enough for the coach to improve, what’s more, s/he need to follow the other four streams by working with what they can see - behavioral focus; what they cannot see but what they hear - conscious cognition; what they suspect - unconscious cognition; working within the system -