Chapter 1 The General Concept of Coaching

Behnam Bakhshandeh

DOI: 10.4324/9781003155928-2

Understanding coaching what it is, how it works, and what is at work during coaching will help you convince executives how coaching will contribute to their professional growth. Coaching should interest any manager or to anyone in the human resource fields.

This chapter offers you a summary of what coaching is and what place it occupies in organizations. In this chapter, we define key terms and some general information about how coaching contributes to organizational productivity. This chapter shows how coaching can empower individuals, teams, and organizations to be more productive. It will lead into Chapter 2, which distinguishes performance ...

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