ABSTRACT

This chapter presents critical discussions on how family business coaching practice can be benefitted with the application of interdisciplinary approaches. It highlights the benefits of transferable interdisciplinary skills in coaching family businesses, and the value of interdisciplinary contributions to develop tools, techniques, and skills for family business coaching. This is supported by real-life case studies and examples from selected related disciplines. The chapter explores how interdisciplinary contributions to coaching are leading to the development of transferable skills. Transferable skills can be generic and subject-specific, formative (developmental skills), summative (end product of the developmental skills), additive (additional skills to existing ones), integrated (inclusion of all relevant interdisciplinary skills in a coaching intervention), multi-dimensional/focused (diverse skills with a common focus). The chapter addresses how an integrated interdisciplinary approach can help us identify the important contributions from different related disciplines to develop and advance good practice in family business coaching.