Executive Coaching

The article touches on several aspects of executive coaching. Executive coaching is used to help leaders develop and work on their skills to help lead and communicate. One of the area in which leader’s struggle is to develop the psychological and behavioral skills needed to deal with organizational change. The Purpose of the article is to see if executive coaching can help leaders during a time of organization change. The participants are 38 executives and senior and middle managers from a consultation organization. 30 of the participants were men and 8 pf the participants were women. The participants were from 14 different locations and varied in age. Due to varies reasons 7 participants had to drop out and not participant. Both quantitative …show more content…
Some examples of qualitative data would be time or temperature, data you can count and measure. Some examples of qualitative data would be the color of a pen, or the smell of a candle, data you can describe. Now both are measure in the article to explore the impact of executive coaching. The way the qualitative data was collected was by recording responses to open ended question. The questions are, What speciﬁc beneﬁts (if any) has the coaching had on your leadership abilities? What speciﬁc beneﬁts (if any) has the coaching had on other areas of your life? For the quantitative data the Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) was used. They would rate how successful they have been in achieving goal on a scale from 0% (no attainment) to 100% (complete attainment). The study displayed the importance of both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data is not meant to display a broader aspect of the participants lived experiences, qualitative data does this and it’s just as …show more content…
Question were opened end to allow for active discussion opposed to yes or no answers. The question, Do you know an instance where you felt you couldn’t complete a task at work? Is to identify and area of weakness or a time where they felt helpless. This will shed light on what the client struggles with and what made them feel that way. You also want to know strengths as well the question provided is to discover strengths, can you give me an example of an instance where you felt did well at a task at work? This will give the coach insight on an instance in which the client felt they did well and give you a better understanding of how they succeeded. The next series of questions were intended to make the client think about themselves and others. What changes would you make to yourself if you could and why? The question will display an area in which the client is unsatisfied with and would look to improve. If you can make a connection between that response and the first one you could have a solid base to start with. The next question would shed light on how the client views others. What changes would you make to others if you could? Highlight the weakness he sees in others and why they believe they have struggled. What I want to get out of this question is what the client picks up on and what is obvious to them. The next series of questions is to see how the client would solve the problem. What can be done to maximize

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