13: How Culture Affects Coaching, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Business, Management, Careers

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

What do we mean by a strong culture?

Strong culture: consistent throughout the organization and thus has a strong influence on individuals
Weak culture: do not have as strong an impact on individuals because of inconsistencies (does not mean it is not effective)

In Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein (2004) defines culture as, “…a pattern of SHARED BASIC ASSUMPTIONS that was learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to PERCEIVE, THINK, and FEEL in relation to those problems” (p. 17).

We accidentally referred to Schein’s book in the episode as “Making Sense of the Organization” which is actually a book by Karl Weick and also an excellent read on organizational culture, though the Schein book is an easier read, so we recommend that first.

We discuss Schein’s three indicators of culture:

Artifacts
Espoused beliefs and values
Underlying assumptions

We also referenced the model below from The Character of a Corporation by Goffee and Jones:

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0:00.0	You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode 13, recorded on November 12, 2011.
0:07.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.
0:13.0	Welcome to coaching skills for leaders.
0:19.0	My name is Dave Stahoviac.
0:22.0	This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills
0:25.3	so they can influence the success of others, their organization, and themselves.
0:30.3	Whether you're a season leader or you're leading people for the first time,
0:33.5	improving your coaching skills will drive your success,
0:36.8	and most importantly, the success of others.
0:39.3	This week's topic is how culture affects coaching. Last week we looked at how courage can help
0:46.5	us to become more effective in our coaching and the importance of having courage and
0:51.4	that actually dovetails perfectly into this week's topic on culture.
0:56.2	And the reason is that a lot of times the things that stop us from being courageous as
1:02.4	leaders is organizational culture.
1:05.8	And whether we recognize it or not, organizational culture has a tremendous impact on how
1:11.5	we interact, the kinds of conversations we have, how we coach people.
1:16.0	And so although this isn't a series of shows on organizational behavior, leaders need to have an understanding of how culture
1:25.5	and organizational dynamics and behavior affect their relationships in
1:30.0	order to be as effective at developing people. And so in order to be as effective at developing people.
1:33.1	And so in order to really do justice to this topic,
1:36.6	I have brought back my favorite guest, my wife,
1:40.4	and also a professor of business at Vanguard University and the president of our
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