Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Pedagogy: How We Teach What We Teach

It is possible to be a self-taught leadership coach (that’s how some of us began doing it in the first place!), but that is not an efficient or comprehensive learning method. Like most coach training programs, ours uses a combination of methods, such as class instruction, textbook and journal reading, group discussions, role plays, case studies, and demonstrations. Various considerations go into instructional design decisions, such as: skill versus conceptual learning goals, broad versus deep topical treatments, behavioral models, class cohesion, and peer learning, as well as more mundane constraints of tolerance of sitting and time available for a topic. This chapter, however, is not about instructional design. ...