Abstract
The changing and challenging situation on the market place has led many academic institutions to update and upgrade their learning methodologies. This improvement aims at helping learners to maximize their potential and achieve greater performance and become more effective, competitive and relevant in the current Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) world. Coaching has been identified as a strategic intervention in leadership development. This paper investigated the role of coaching in strategic leadership development in the academia. Existing literature was reviewed and a 3-week individual coaching program implemented with an undergraduate student using GROW model. Findings indicated three themes connected with the role of coaching in strategic leadership development including goal setting, action planning and prioritization, self-confidence and determination.
Highlights
The Leadership Group website provides a quotation worth mentioning about coaching from Bob Nardelli, CEO Home Depot: “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities”
This paper investigated the role of coaching in strategic leadership development in the academia
This study aimed at investigating the role of coaching in the strategic leadership development process in the academic context
Summary
The Leadership Group website provides a quotation worth mentioning about coaching from Bob Nardelli, CEO Home Depot: “I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities”, (http://theleadershipgroup.asia/service/coaching/). Coaching has increasingly raised a lot of interests within the academia as well as in the market place in last several decades. Individuals and organizations seek to continually improve their performance for greater achievement as they pursue their goals, try to be more. Kimberly and Rosemary (2006) describe coaching as a leadership development strategy in developing human capital and even improving organizational performance. Groves (2007) identifies leadership development, strategically implemented, as a key factor of organizational effectiveness. The concept of coaching becomes increasingly present in various sectors of society as both profit and non-profit, public and private organizations become more intentional about and heavily invest in the development of their human resource
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