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The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going. The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections: Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline Part Two: Coaching as a Process Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching Part Four: Coaching in Contexts Part Five: Researching Coaching Part Six: Development of Coaches It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners' literature on coaching.
Coaching for Leadership Development
Coaching for Leadership Development
INTRODUCTION
This chapter discusses the developing discipline of coaching in relation to leadership development in organizations. In the past fifteen years, coaching has been increasingly reported as the type of leadership development intervention that is gaining momentum and popularity (Kampa-Kokesch and Anderson, 2001; Kets de Vries, 2005; Zenger and Stinnet, 2006; Bowles et al. 2007; Schein, 2010; Korotov et al., 2012). At the same time, the academic work on this application of coaching is still in its relatively early stages (Carey et al., 2011), when ‘much of the research claims are unsubstantiated by other studies and in this sense may reflect local conditions or populations’ (Passmore and Fillery-Travis, 2011: 71). Similarly, although research in various leadership theories ...
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