Problematising current coaching strategies from a worldview perspective

Orientation: Leaders need goodness-of-fit with the context in which they are leading, and coaching is considered an effective strategy to achieve this. Research purpose: To critically problematise current dominant strategies terms of their underlying worldviews, order assess potential effectiveness relevance enhancing context‒leadership goodness-of-fit, given emerging faced by leaders. Motivation for study: The ever-changing leaders requires different thinking, including regard coaching. framework landscape, its associated building blocks, provides conceptual review strategies. Three worldviews that have historically influenced thinking social sciences employed this review, namely Newtonian, general systems theory complexity or chaos (second-order systemic thinking). approach/design method: This was a critical study aimed at problematising informing currently Main findings: revealed these not always informed worldview congruent demanded qualities features world face. There pressing systemic) worldview, better meets contextual demands requirements imposed on practice. Practical/managerial implications: A strategy, called , proposed. Contribution/value-add: proposed highly suitable bringing about improved between leader context.