2.3 The Benefits of Coaching
Coaching is an important concept to encourage learning and good coaching has an effect on positive personal change (Eggers and Clark, 2000) creating benefits for the individual’s development and beneficial results to the organisation (Gaserud, 2001). The managers are necessary to adapt a leadership style built on coaching to increase the productivity of their employees in order that it could lead to a change in the whole organisation culture (Whitmore, 2003). It also have benefits for both the individuals and the organisation (Jarvis, 2004 ; Stener, 2007).
In addition, Research has shown that coaching can be effective in contributing to goal attainment, mental health, well-being and behavioural management (Blaylock, …show more content…
Life Coaching is employed on sport, education, psychology and management methods (Palmer and Whybrow, 2007), and it has spread extensive and has become powerful driver of professional growth and business developmental tools (Coutu and Kuaffman, 2009; Blair, 2011). Life coaching can be widely defined as ‘a collaborative systematic solution-focused, results-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of goal attainment, life experience, self-directed learning and the personal growth of the coachee’ (Grant, 2003, p.254.) which links to five theories: cognitive-behavioral approaches, solution-focus theory, humanistic theory, goal-setting theory and positive psychology (Grant and Cavanagh, …show more content…
There are a number of additional types that may be sub-categories of the main coaching areas, such as career coaching, sales coaching (Stern, 2004), and coaching has several different types of coaching under the individual coaching umbrella: personal, life, health, executive, career coaching, to name a few. Researchers and practitioners differentiate among many kinds of coaching such as, internal and external coaching, team coaching, on-the-job coaching, career coaching, executive coaching which each of coaching happens in different environment and different goals (Gray, 2010; Maynard,
Coaching is an important concept to encourage learning and good coaching has an effect on positive personal change (Eggers and Clark, 2000) creating benefits for the individual’s development and beneficial results to the organisation (Gaserud, 2001). The managers are necessary to adapt a leadership style built on coaching to increase the productivity of their employees in order that it could lead to a change in the whole organisation culture (Whitmore, 2003). It also have benefits for both the individuals and the organisation (Jarvis, 2004 ; Stener, 2007).
In addition, Research has shown that coaching can be effective in contributing to goal attainment, mental health, well-being and behavioural management (Blaylock, …show more content…
Life Coaching is employed on sport, education, psychology and management methods (Palmer and Whybrow, 2007), and it has spread extensive and has become powerful driver of professional growth and business developmental tools (Coutu and Kuaffman, 2009; Blair, 2011). Life coaching can be widely defined as ‘a collaborative systematic solution-focused, results-orientated and systematic process in which the coach facilitates the enhancement of goal attainment, life experience, self-directed learning and the personal growth of the coachee’ (Grant, 2003, p.254.) which links to five theories: cognitive-behavioral approaches, solution-focus theory, humanistic theory, goal-setting theory and positive psychology (Grant and Cavanagh, …show more content…
There are a number of additional types that may be sub-categories of the main coaching areas, such as career coaching, sales coaching (Stern, 2004), and coaching has several different types of coaching under the individual coaching umbrella: personal, life, health, executive, career coaching, to name a few. Researchers and practitioners differentiate among many kinds of coaching such as, internal and external coaching, team coaching, on-the-job coaching, career coaching, executive coaching which each of coaching happens in different environment and different goals (Gray, 2010; Maynard,