Leaders and Leadership Coaching
Leaders and Leadership Coaching
Megan Freeman | 2020
Abstract
Today, organizations are increasing their understanding of the importance of leadership development to advance and sustain. Leaders as organizations’ commanders should possess various skillsets and capabilities to support and advance the mission and vision. Specifically, continuous leadership development is required to keep up with those organizations’ ever-changing needs. According to the Journal of Applied Psychology, organizations that focus more on development opportunities like leadership coaching see a higher organizational Return On Investment.
The book, Leaders and Leadership Coaching, gives leaders perspective and how leadership coaching can address organizations’ typical everyday woes. Leaders who have never experienced or never understood what leadership coaching is can get an inside look into the process and what it can do for them and their organizations. The book explains multiple aspects of leadership and areas to consider improving for development and transformation. Inside are popular leadership and leadership coaching competencies, theories, styles, skills, and models such as the Leadership 360-degree feedback, Kurt Lewins’ Change model, and SMART goal setting. Leaders and Leadership Coaching encourages leaders to explore through coaching how they impact certain organizational practices and outcomes they often question.
Keywords: leadership, coaching, organizations, leaders, development, skills, team