Reflections on How Learning in Other Domains Informs Our Approach to Coaching Leadership

Abstract

As leadership educators with unique and different pasts, we to reflect on nonleadership domains in which we have learned, practiced, and coached. Allen will focus on his experience in springboard diving, Jenkins on his experiences playing and working with jazz musicians, and Buller on his involvement in the military. In each of our experiences, Ericsson and Pool's elements of deliberate practice were present and, in many cases, provided the foundation for our growth and development. There is an opportunity for leadership educators to follow suit and more intentionally design programming that requires deliberate practice.