Individual Intervention: Executive and Management Coaching

Abstract

This chapter offers the readers elements of individual change intervention in organizations in form of executive and management coaching as first level of intervention. In this chapter, the readers will become familiar with definitions, distinctions, and processes of individual intervention, with some beneficial information about how executives or managers relate to employees and their productivity. Coaching is known, accepted, and widely used in many industries as a form of executive and manager coaching for OD individual interventions. The chapter briefly explains these models for the readers to see vital role of individuals (executives, managers, supervisors, technicians, and workers) in all aspects of presented models. It is a good time to mention Mary's results of her executive coaching and what she accomplished in participating in this coaching as a form of her individual intervention. During the individual intervention and implementation of executive coaching, Mary had some insights and realizations about who she was being and how she operated in her work.