Leading, amid global, multi-cultural landscapes, requires organizations to embrace leadership development methodologies that connect aspiring leaders (coachees) of disparate social, ethical, and cultural backgrounds. Under the current leadership structures, organizations lack the wherewithal to impartially champion the careers of aspiring leaders owing to in-group favoritisms and ethical and cultural disconnects. These disparities serve as barriers to applying emotional intelligence (EI) to synthesize leaders and aspiring leaders of myriad backgrounds. To mitigate these impediments, leaders must sharpen their EI skills by self-assessing and navigating blind spots to identify and co-locate with aspiring leaders. Once the leaders and aspiring leaders are co-located, they can move symmetrically through a coaching triangle by leveraging a coaching conversation for empowerment and cultural homogeneity to optimally position the leader, aspiring leader, and the organization. This optimal position characterizes the performance apex for all three entities and represents organizational wellness. This book introduces a Coaching Triangulation methodology using an ends-means-ways operational design to champion this organizational wellness. The model is epochal in that a coach of any social (generational), ethical, or cultural disposition can apply the framework to develop leaders of contrasting cultures to Champion Organization Wellness. Organizational wellness is the aggregate of organizational development (OD) and organizational sustainment (OS).
The book consists of four Parts: Part 1 is the Introduction and Literature Review. Part 2 is the means which are Emotional Intelligence and Assessments, Navigating Blind Spots, and The Coaching Conversation. Part 3 is the ways which consist of Cultural Agnosticism and Empowerment through a Coaching Organization. Part 4 is the conclusion which comprises the ends for Championing Organization Wellness.
Chapter one offers an introduction which discusses leadership coaching, the problem it solves, and how the Coaching Triangulation methodology superimposed on the ends-means-ways operational design is appropriate for Championing Organization Wellness amid disparate cultures. The model is catalyst to the leader and aspiring leader ascending symmetrically to achieve their performance apex for organizational wellness. Chapter two offers a Literature Review as the underpinning and overarching perspective on leadership coaching across global sectors.
In chapter three, the leadership coaches’ location is marked through the five components of EI and Self-assessments. Then chapter four expands on this location by helping the coach examine embedded Blind Spots that may have originated from EI and values deficiencies or misaligned values, generational disparities, cultural biases and disconnects, or ethnical behaviors. Once the distance between the leaders and aspiring leaders is determined, Chapter five illustrates the Coaching Conversation that allows the leader and aspiring to symmetrically move true north through intuitive listening, asking powerful questions, designing actions, and supporting the process. These three chapters exemplify the means for Championing Organization Wellness.
Chapters six, the first component of the ways for navigating the coaching triangle, highlights how to achieve Cultural Agnosticism through Cultural Ingratiation, Cultural Competence, and Culture Agility. Chapter seven offers the second component of the ways by illustrating how a Culture of Coaching empowers others through Servant-ship, Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership, and Democratized Leadership.
The book concludes in chapter eight by sharing how Championing Organization Wellness is manifested through the aggregate of OD and OS. It provides the blueprint for achieving OD by applying Strategic Communications and Strategic Human Resource Development processes, while OS is realized through the application of Coach-Protégé Programs and Intermediate Performance Reviews. In addition to Championing Organization Wellness, this Coaching Triangulation model concludes with a high-performance leadership continuum that culminates into an autonomous leadership succession plan.
Championing Organization Wellness leverages the hands-on experience of a proven leadership coach who models transforming aspiring leaders into first-rate leaders. In this book, a four-time at-sea commander shares his 20 plus years of executive experience, leading across global expanses, to model how to connect leaders and aspiring leaders of disparate cultures, generations, and social backgrounds to move in lockstep to achieve optimal success. Dr. Anthony Simmons uses a Coaching Triangulation Model consisting of ends-means-ways approach to move the coach (leader), coachee (aspiring leader) and organization to their apogee. Championing Organization Wellness affords the blueprint for any leader anywhere to navigate blind spots to see through cultural differences and empower all groups through a coaching organization.
Dr. Simmons used his nautical acumen as he developed and presents his model of organizational wellness called Coaching Triangulation. Triangulating is a means of determining location and “fixing” one’s position. Dr. Simmons Coaching Triangulation Model presents a coaching platform that locates the client, assesses the culture, and helps the leader navigate blind spots. He uses coaching as a platform for connecting coach and organization members so both may share a common perspective and an expanded vision for optimal organizational performance. The book demonstrates a methodology of Organizational development and Organizational sustainment, which yields organizational wellness. Dr. Simmons uses personal stories to demonstrate the application of coaching theory and practice. Truly a fascinating work suggesting organizational wellness is possible and presenting a means for achieving it!
Dr. Diane Wiater, Adjunct, Coaching Concentration, Regent University, School of Business and Leadership, Founder and CEO Wiater Consulting Group, LLC
Dr. Anthony Simmons’ invigorating work offers exceptional methodologies to help align coaching and leadership attributes. Based on his extensive military service including four at-sea commands and “leadership engagements and visits to 63 countries,” Anthony’s book offers practical insights to find true north using his Coaching Triangulation Model. Drawing from extensive research, including a literature review and scriptural integration, Anthony’s model “fosters a platform to facilitate organizational development and organizational sustainment, as the aggregate of the two realizes organizational wellness.” Dr. Simmons’ Coaching Triangulation Model is comprehensive in structure and substance with proven viability by over 25 of his “understudies who attained positions as at-sea commanders.” As we continue to maneuver turbulent times of uncertainty and organizational wellness vulnerabilities, Dr. Simmons book offers far-reaching opportunities to close existing gaps between operational tensions. This is a “must read” for military and organizational leaders alike at the local, state, national and global levels.
Dr. Virginia Richardson, BCC, Adjunct Professor of Strategic Foresight, Leadership & Healthcare, Regent University School of Business and Leadership
- Organization development & sustainment modeling
- Positions leaders and aspiring leaders in a common space
- Personal excellence through self-assessments and EI mastery
- Suppressing blind spots through a coaching conversation
- Strategic talent management and cross-functional development
- Coach-Protégé program design
- Coaching through ‘Servant-ship!’
- Coaching across diverse groups
- Culture harmony and buoyant work environments
- Facilitates leadership successions
- Inter-groups supplant in-groups and out-groups
- Illustrates five practices of exemplary leadership
Dr. Anthony L. Simmons is a retired Navy Captain who served 28 years as a Surface Warfare Officer. His Navy experience consisted of four at-sea commands: a Patrol Coastal, two AEGIS Destroyers and a Destroyer Squadron. Ashore, he worked in human resources at the Navy Bureau of Personnel and the Pentagon on the staffs of the Chairman of Joint Chiefs and Navy Operations as a Strategic Planner and Resource Officer. He has experience working in the Maritime Defense Sector. He holds a doctorate degree in Strategic Leadership from Regent University, a master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Naval Postgraduate School, a master’s in Military Operational Art and Science from Air University, and a bachelor’s degree in Robotics from Austin Peay State University.
The author has walked the talk and refined the path! This work puts organizational leadership capstones within hands reach of today's leadership coaches.
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