Stellenbosch Business School

Yet, behind the confidence of the technology and many of the claims being made about it, there are still important questions about what we should actually call AI coaching, what works, for whom, and how we know it.

My guest today is Professor Nicky Terblanche, professor in leadership coaching at Stellenbosch University Business School in Cape Town, South Africa, where he leads the master's and PhD programs in leadership coaching.

Nicky began his career in electronic and software engineering before moving into coaching and applied psychology, and has been researching AI coaching since well before the arrival of generative AI.

In this conversation, Nicky brings us into the research.

Shall we start with you? Can you start by telling us a little bit more about yourself?

Yeah, sure.

So currently, I am a professor in leadership coaching at Stellenbosch University Business School.

That's a university in Cape Town in South Africa.

Knowing how to listen, knowing how to communicate what you need, understanding someone else's position, compromise and dealing with conflict.

Instead of raising children who simply just do what they're told and sort of follow blindly, should we, in fact, be raising good negotiators? Advocate Viraj Shrikasen is a mediator and lecturer in leadership at the Stellenbosch Business School and joins me via Zoom.

Viraj, good to have you with us.

Good morning, Sarah-Jane, and good morning, listeners.

and we want them to trust us enough to come with trust with anything absolutely and what they're doing is they're watching our behavior negotiation learning and why i see adults why i see adults struggle with why train adults to negotiate is because of that trust factor that was broken when they were children so now when they're adults they they're reluctant to trust And when they come in for this training, they realize, oh, hang on, it's a difficult one to go and trust somebody.

And when we do the training, they go and you think that they take into the workplace, they actually take it into their homes and start building that trust relationship with their children, their partners, their friends.

If you're just joining us this morning, we're talking to advocate Viraj Srikusen, who's a mediator and lecturer in leadership at Stellenbosch Business School Executive Development.

And we're talking about raising kids who can negotiate and why that matters.