Coaching Case Studies Samples For Students

Coach Knight and Coach K. have very different styles of coaching. One style of coaching displays a softer side to leadership and coaching while the other style believes in the notion of exercising tough love in leadership. Generally speaking, Coach K’s style seems to be more sincere, personal and at times compassionate while Coach Knight’s leadership style is rigid and strict. Both coaches have had very successful careers in coaching. The numerous wins reveal the success of the college basketball teams that they have coached. The difference in their coaching styles and leadership techniques leads one to wonder ...

Introduction

Creating overall viable plan for the development of the company requires thorough consideration of the peculiarities of business, strategy-friendly organizational structure and the ways to enhance employees’ engagement level, as well as proper management tools. For the purposes of this assignment I will research into above-mentioned issues with respect to elaborating on the overall business strategy for the enterprise under study. To make the discussion more practical I will view the organization as a problem-solving mechanism (Coperrider&Srivastva 149), and identify issues and the way to solve them for each of the questions of the case study

Organization structure

The business under study ...

Introduction

Background
Established in 1941 as a small family-owned business, Coach morphed into a fashion brand over time, providing superior quality fashion goods of modern and classic style. It started operating its own exclusive retail stores in 1980 (Coach Inc., 2014). The Coach brand was sold to Sarah Lee in 1985, and since then, the company has undergone a rapid expansion. The product portfolio of Coach included luggage, briefcases and other fashion accessories, apart from its original men’s and women’s leather bags. Until 2000, Coach mainly operated its stores in the USA before starting to expand into international markets like ...

There is nothing greater that you can tell someone than, “I believe in you; you are good, I’m there for you.”(Coach K)
“Among all the things I believe, one tops the list-the importance of preparation. We talk about winner kids in coaching, the ones who will not allow themselves or the team to lose. Coaches’ call that a will to win. But I don’t. I think everyone one has the will to win, what’s far most important is the will for preparation.” (Coach Knight)
Coach Knight and Coach K are undoubtedly the invincible rulers ...

Question 1

The two famous basketball coaches are Bob Knight and Mike Kryzewski. They are known for being the most successful coaches in terms of leadership and winning records. Coach Knight was successful while he was the coach of the basketball at Indiana University. Coach K has been successful from the time he became the head coach at Duke University.
Coach K possesses both human skills and conceptual skills from Kratz leadership model. Coach K was once quoted saying that he does not desire to be a dictator, but he desired to be a manager. He embraced flexibility and dynamics in his ...

A Leadership Case Study

Introduction
This paper examines the manifestation of certain leadership traits in two different case study subjects and presents a comparative analysis between management and leadership and as to the effect on their effectiveness.

Question 1

Coach K is more person oriented than goal-oriented and that can be seen in the leadership perspectives that manifest within him. He is shown to have driven which can be seen in his will to win and his ambition and energy, along with honesty, self-confidence, and knowledge of the business manifested distinctly in him. All these qualities can be seen very clearly in the way he ...

- (a) Identify and briefly describe 3 consequences of Title IX that were positive.
The first positive consequence of Title IX is that Girls and women’s teams have had access to equitable facilities, equipment and uniforms. Before the Title IX laws and regulations come to being in 1972 women and girls were facing some many challenges including discrimination against when allocating resources. The fact that there were few women and girls in sports before 1972 meant that women and girls were not interested in sports. Even though there were at least some women and girls who participated in ...

Training Activities

Developing your own coaching diagram.
Personally, a successful coaching program for me is something that involves the participation of both the coach and the client. Client’s full participation is a requirement for the success of the program because the client is the one who will make the difference or can provide the answers or is capable of making the program work. The coach is only there for reinforcement and guidance. No matter how good the program is, and how much effort the coach has given to the program, if the client does not cooperate well, then still, success couldn’ ...

According to De Vito (n.d.), in interpersonal relationships there are several possible types of power that one individual can have over another. Those include:
Referent: That is where person B wants to be like person A;
Legitimate: Where B believes that person A has the right of control or influence over person B’s behavior;
Expert: When this power is present, B regards A as having required knowledge;
Information or Persuasion: This is where B regards A as having the ability of effective communication;
Reward: With this power present, A is able to reward ...

TALENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR GREATSTONE

Introduction:
People are the first, and most important source of competitive advantage of any organization and construction industry does not have an exception. GreatStone is a building material company that is closely associated with the construction industry. Currently, the construction industry is facing enormous challenges and dealing with these challenges is not possible without a talented workforce. Therefore, talent development strategy for GreatStone’s talent management is pivotal. The need of this strategy becomes more obvious when organization have to face dynamic, changing, and complex environment. GreatStone has to face these situations because of unique projects, changing teams, fragmented processes, ...

First of all I would like to salute you sir, I hope that all is well with you. I am concerned about what has been going on in the football team during their practice sessions and am therefore letting you know that there are lots of strategies that I have laid down in order to deal with the situation.
First of all, I am going to investigate that matter thoroughly. I am not only going to rely on the information that we have from the assistant coach but also information from the players and all parties concerned. This ...

Adult Education has become an exciting opportunity for learning and interesting professionals. With tie this filed has grown in proportions, dynamism and creates opportunity for everyone involved. At present, greater than 50% of total American college students are above 21 years of age and almost 15% are above 35 years. Authorities predict that percentage of adult students will continue to rise in coming years. Researchers have also found that every adult remains engaged in learning projects in which large amount of time are assigned to self directed study. Annually, average 500 hours are spent by adult in learning projects ( ...

Psychology Case Study

Location: Home
Since the beginning of this year, my little sister who is in elementary school fifth grade has been avoiding her duty of making her room tidy before going to school. She will just wake up and leave her bed unmade and her clothes scattered on the floor. My mother had assigned me the responsibility of ensuring my sister’s room is tidy before we leave in the morning for school or any other day’s activity. This has bothered me for sometime as I had previously tried to teach my sister how to make her bed ...

The Columbine High School experienced a horrific turn of events on the 20^th of April 1999. Two of its students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were on a mission that led to the death of 12 students and one teacher. The two teenagers had been planning for this massacre for quite some time. They been collecting guns, ammunitions as well as bomb components that they would use on the day of 20^th April. It is said that they had even created a website which they posted blogs with statements that pinpointed several individual likely to be ...

HRM Issues in an Insurance Company

The Cases discussed below are related to Human Resource Management, experienced by the author as a human resource manager in an Australian Health Insurance firm. Each case has some distinct features typical of HR function and are addressed by the author using the relevant theories and practices on the issues. The cases are presented below

Scenario 1

This case represents a situation where a young male employee GS has been promoted as the manager in a regional office which is comparatively smaller than his previous location. His team consists of mainly part time female members, with similar and educational backgrounds and ...

Question 1: You are tasked with completing a coaching discussion with Linus Carver. How would you go about this discussion?

Before starting a discussion with Linus Carver, I need to ascertain objectives which need to be fulfilled from the discussion. The meeting may be started by appreciating the fact that he is handling the department extremely well by coming out with wonderful product designs and is an asset to the company. However, there are some behavioral fallacies which have been observed in the manner Carver handles his team. Carver solely handles a department and does not allow others to voice their ideas and opinions which make his team extremely frustrated. He improvises on the ideas given by his staff and presents ...

In past two weeks the athletic fraternity in the country has witnessed unbearable scandal in one of its most famous arena of basketball, when Rutgers University committed a series of actions that seem unprofessional and unattractive both to the public, the media and other learning institution.
The university have gone to the depth of firing the head coach of the university’s basketball team, coach Mike rice over claims of his abusive behavior to players, it has also forced the resignation of the athletic director, Tim Pernetti and also gone to the extent of kicking out its general counsel a ...

Introduction

In the words of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally, there are others which a man is afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has considerable number of such things stored away” (Wedding & Stuber, 2010, p. 134). This case is about the reminiscences of one such young girl.
An 18 year old girl, Dora who, since 12 years of age had been suffering ...

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Lateness can be a thorny disciplinary issue in any organization. Whichever way you look at it, it’s likely to have negative impact on the performance of any company. The lateness that has become the tendency of Frank for the last three weeks needs to be checked before it gets into the other members of staff. My next course of action as Frank’s employer would be informed by two issues. First of all, I would consider the nature of franks work, whether its satisfactory or not, secondly, I would consider whether it is told he first time ...

Introduction

The capability to shape and develop the leadership abilities of the members of the organization so as to fulfill organizational needs and demands is a complicated and challenging component of the general leadership development process. Leaders are responsible for the achievement of organizational goals, as well as for their followers' performance needed to attain the desired outcome. However, this is not an easy task. Widget PLC has problems with their leadership as revealed by decreasing employee motivation and managerial performance. This paper discusses and analyzes the relevance of transformational leadership and authentic leadership to the problem of Widget PLC. ...

- The main reason that causes differences in market expansion strategies is the peculiarity of markets. In the United States, where the company owns about two thirds of the outlets, the market is well known for the company’s executives, so they can easily operate the business. They know the consumer, know his preferences and tastes, so different operating decisions are made easily, without any help from outside. However, when it comes to other markets (international), things are much more complicated there. Every country, even every region within the country is very different from each other, therefore, in order ...

Early Childhood:

Observer:
Code Name of Subject: “Pony Tails”
Age of Subject: Three years old
Location: Baby day care center
Supervisor Signature:
Physical Characteristics
Height – One foot.
Weight – Roughly eight kilogram’s. Subject has average weight compared to children her age. Bone structure is not fully visible at this age.

Proportions – “Pony tails” still has a large head to body proportion which is consistent with children her age.

Hearing – “Pony tails” passed the ball when requested by a fellow child. This was from approximately 20 feet away amidst playground high noise levels.

Vision – “Pony tails” could spot a small tennis ball that got lost in a flower bush from 10 feet away.

Tactile Sensitivity - “Pony Tails” avoided playing close to the sand. She avoided dirt as it felt “yucky” to her.
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A Reflection on the Article

It has been observed that at different periods, we tend to move our thoughts in a specific direction. This is usually as per geographical borders. The majority of the people tend to think, speak and/or act this specific way, the similarities being more pronounced as the geographical area decreases. This similar interest in a specific time is called the trend at that time. This article details why ignoring trends is not healthy for a business. The article also shows how trends can give companies the chance to innovatively assimilate its products or services in line with the trend, by application of strategic ...

Track and field events are among the individual sports whereby individual effort is more important than the team strategy in winning the event. Team work on the other hand is quite important since when people work together, they tend to gain more as opposed to individual effort (John, 2007). This is well attributed to Kenyan athletes who in most cases employ team work in this individualized event to scoop top medals more so in 3000 m steeple chase, whereby they are seen to encourage one another and more so working as a team through out the race.

Reward system can ...

Daniel Goleman starts his article asking two rhetorical questions. The first asks “What do effective leaders do?” The second question asks “What should leaders do?” Goleman retains that these two questions are relatively easy for people studying leadership to answer. But the real purpose of the essay is to answer “how?” This is because the “mystery of what leaders can and ought to do in order to spark the best performance from their people is age-old,” (Goleman 78). He goes to on to write about how there is an emergence of leadership experts trying to offer advice to young ...

John Smith is a 34-year old single White American man, a U.S. Veteran, with no children. He is an atheist. John resides in San Jose, CA, in a rented 1-bedroom apartment, and owns a private security company that brings him stable average income. John seeks treatment for the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that first started in 2012. He sought help only now because he has a strong desire to start a family, but is currently unable to initiate and maintain loving relationships with women. The presenting symptoms are persistent mild and daily anxiety, insomnia occurring about twice a month and ...

Based on Module 9, describe what failed in the orientation process. Be specific and use examples based on case study.
An orientation program was normally initiated with an objective to introduce the new joiners to their jobs in a formal manner. A new employee comes to know about different aspects of their jobs through a proper orientation, as it elaborates on the information that an employee receives during the selection procedure. The main purpose of an effective orientation program is to introduce the new employee to the organization as a whole, to its co-workers and their work units, apart from on ...

Management Leadership

1. What is framing? Name 2 leaders who have utilized it effectively in casting a vision.
Many a time leaders forget to communicate to the team members the goal of an initiative in a clear and compelling way. Framing is the competency of the leader to make others understand the outcome of a situation or project so that the entire team can take effective action. For example, Jack Welch was able to communicate the business goals of its leadership as well as other stakeholders properly and it resulted in a huge success of GE during his tenure as the CEO. Mahatma Gandhi was ...

Stack ranking where managers in a company evaluate employees by providing a certain percentage in relation to their levels of performance. the term can is also called forced distribution since the method is not subjective. Microsoft uses the method to rank employee's level of performance from worst to best forcing managers to make difficult decisions. The method faces criticism all over since high performing employees are rewarded forcing low performers to move out. In a company about only 10 percent of employees can be designated as top performers, (Hrebiniak, p. 203). Therefore, the chance of a company to lose its creative people is ...

ASSIGNMENT 4: HR TRAINING CLASS

Customer service training is the process of impacting the employees with the necessary knowledge, competencies and skills required to improve customer satisfaction. Customer service is the most essential part of carrying out businesses activities as it directly reflects on the company and how it is capable of meeting the needs of the customers. In order to implement a customer service training with the employees it first requires a sound understanding of the needs and expectations of the customers for the company. The next item after identifying the needs and expectation then the concerned party designs a plan to train employees on how ...

Introduction

Talent management is a vital process that guarantees organizations have the quality and quantity of a position to meet their future and current priorities. The process includes the life cycle of the employee thus; performance management selection, development and succession .

Talent management program that led to success for the company

For the concerned stake holders and contractors, there are three stages that take place from day one and then midpoint after the first quarter and at the end of that first year. The original phase normally takes one month, and at the end, all the new managers must have mastered the business model and must understand the cultural norms and how ...

Facts and Background

This case is about the internal circumstances at Concord Machines, a manufacturer whose product lines has fallen short of being lucrative and is now being saved by the company’s services department. The case is fundamentally about three critical people in the company, the company President CEO Jay Nguyen, the senior vice president and general manager for the services department, Robert “Bob” Dunn, and Vice President for Knowledge Management Annette Innella. Here are short descriptions of the three:
- Jay Nguyen – is the president and CEO of Concord Machines. His long-term vision for the company centers on finding a way ...

A Case Study of Communicative Language Teaching

Summary
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been one of the most important factors that the second level teachers paid attention to. This practice is the technique they use when they are teaching the second language to improve their student's communication and understanding skills. Teachers will do practice this technique by developing the speaking skills of their students (Richards, 2006). This is very important because students will be able to increase their speaking and communication skills on early stage. Teachers want the student not only to develop how they understand the language, but that would also like students to ...

Benchmarking Logistics Performance

Benchmarking Logistics Performance

Benchmarking is a primary tool that would help companies to measure their competitive advantage over the other competitors in the market and use their findings to develop a continuous improvement strategy for the business. In logistics, performance is based on the company’s efficiency in handling the process and live up to their customer’s expectations. However, not all logistics strategy is the same and having one derived from internal analysis of the company’s process is not enough to assume its maximum efficiency. That is the reason why benchmarking is an important tool for the company to ...

Retail industry in the United States is faced with several challenges including very low wages, little training and lack of adequate skills, extremely high percentage of part-time workers, and minimal healthcare coverage. Despite these challenges, Men’s Warehouse has greatly succeeded in this industry and treats its employees comparatively better than some professional service firms (O'Reilly and Pfeffer 81). The company has built a workforce and a culture that gives it competitive advantage. Described herein is the company’s training and performance management system which has resulted into the competitive advantage, and how these reflect its values and philosophy.
The ...