MAN6706 Developing Leaders and Organisations: Coaching Skills

This assessment task involves writing a fully developed proposal for a training course on ‘Coaching Skills for Managers’. The coaching skills training course must be complemented by the formation of an action learning set.

Leadership Development Proposal

Therefore, the proposal must cover both the training course and action learning set.

The following list of readings should be helpful when preparing your assignment. You are not expected to read and use all these articles for your assignment. You can use as few or as many as you like.

Some articles can also be located through Google Scholar.

Managers as coaches:

Beattie, R. S., Kim, S., Hagen, M. S., Egan, T. M., Ellinger, A. D., & Hamlin, R. G. (2014). Managerial coaching: A review of the empirical literature and development of a model to guide future practice. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 16(2), 184-201.

Bommelje, R. (2015). Managerial coaching. New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2015(148), 69-77.

Heslin, P. A., Vandewalle, D., & Latham, G. P. (2006). Keen to help? Managers ‘implicit person theories and their subsequent employee coaching. Personnel Psychology, 59(4), 871-902.

McCarthy, G., & Milner, J. (2013). Managerial coaching: challenges, opportunities and training. Journal of Management Development, 32(7), 768-779.