Sustainable Innovation by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030304218
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The Particularities of Executive Coaching

The coaching of employees in leadership positions is a highly individualized form of leadership development and focuses on developing the coachees’ full potential by coaching them ‘to think and act beyond existing limits and paradigms’ (Bawany, 2018, p. 54).

The topics of accompaniment of the leader are numerous. Leaders have to identify their strengths and areas of development; examine their behavior impact on others; and reflect on their values, goals and effectiveness. This leads to continuous renewal and evolvement of their self (Bawany, 2018).

Mintzberg (2013) claims that leadership is a vocation. This call to engage, to help and to guide others finds its source in childhood, in the schoolyard or the playground. From childhood on, one’s personal experiences lead one to wake up to one’s preferences, joys, deficits and fears. According to psychotherapist Alice Miller (1997), the leader and the coach have a point in common in that they are generally hurt children. Both experienced an early lack in the relationship with others and acquired a unique way of being by developing social and interpersonal skills to fill this lack. Therefore, the leader and the coach have a specific ability that intuitively calls them to help people bring out the best of themselves. However, someone’s shortcomings surface and claim their due often in the second half of life (Halbout, 2013). Thus, an early lack that has allowed the leader to develop behavior to succeed at the beginning of his/her career can later become an obstacle in their leadership exercise at the highest function. When accepting the hypothesis of the leader being a hurt child then healing should come through personal work on one’s self. This is where the coach’s and the leader’s path cross.

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