Chapter 4 Transformational Coaching and Organization Development

William J. Rothwell

DOI: 10.4324/9781003304074-6

Overview

Transformational coaching (TC) is carried out with employed people. That is important to know, since the corporate culture of an organization can influence how people are coached and how they undergo transformation. Leaders who receive coaching can affect the organization if they are transformed, and often individual transformation is essential to organizational transformation.

Organization development (OD) was defined in a previous chapter. But it is worth defining it again. OD is usually regarded as a top-management-supported effort to facilitate change in an organization by improving how people interact to achieve ...

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