Essays on Coaching

There are various leadership styles that are adopted by the leaders depending upon the type of work and nature of business. Among the different leadership style, one is coaching in which the leaders are required to improve the performance and improve the existing capabilities of workers. The leader as coach helps their subordinate to increase their skills, building strong bench mark and providing them lots of guidance throughout the task or activities. This type of leadership style is most successful when the subordinates are more agreeable, experienced and responsible. Moreover, the coaching style of leadership helps to create positive Continue reading...

Although managers are expected to have great technical, this does not mean their technical capabilities can ensure them a promotion into the ranks of management. This is so because there are other factors to be considered besides technical skill such as the usefulness of the coworkers and the coaching. The coaching done on managers ensure that the relevant resources are available to workers and assist helps in identifying an action plan to solve performance issues. The coaching will facilitate technical skills that managers can use to improve their performance problems.
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In the recent years, coaching and mentoring techniques have become integral elements of the modern social reality. These activities are considered to be effective tools of professional as well as personal development, so highly valued by the today’s workforce.
High-quality coaching and mentoring serve to enhance motivation, productivity, morale, and provide strong emotional support for the needs of individuals, especially in case organisational change initiatives are being pursued. Through the implementation of such practices, both the organisation and the employee tend to benefit tremendously. Coaching and mentoring are both closely connected with the concept of reflective learning, which Continue reading...

Mastering the Skill of a Comfortable Coaching/Mentoring Style

The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching and/or mentoring style is not so difficult for an effective leader. As such, the leader should remind himself of his “absolute absolutes” for effective leadership and professional effectiveness (1) Leadership rooted in humility; (2) Purpose that extends its influence over others; (3) Strategy secured in values and purpose; (4) People – they are your team; (5) Measure – validate what is true; (6) Empower – teach people to do this for themselves; (7) Reward – acknowledge, praise, and respect; (8) Anticipate – be prepared for the next step; (9) Navigate – goes hand in hand with anticipate – be Continue reading...

Proposal

Use of Health Coaching tools and techniques to work with middle aged women at the weight loss boot camp and nutritional counseling center, to achieve positive and permanent weight loss results.

Problem and Solution

A known fact is that after certain age women have a harder time losing weight, mostly middle aged women. Approximately two-thirds of women gain weight or have a hard time maintaining their desired weight and losing weight becomes almost impossible. One of the main culprits is the changes in hormones that have a direct effect on appetite, metabolism, and fat storages (Stradler, 2014).
Other statistics indicate that 67% Continue reading...

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

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It is now recognized that new teachers need mentors to help them transition from the classroom and student teaching experiences to the professional role of teachers and their new responsibilities. Whereas during their training student teachers were supported and forgiven for lapses or errors while under the supervision of a senior teacher, now these new teachers are required to take both the praise and criticism of parents, principals and superintendents. In addition, there has been a recently developed movement in the U.S. of teaching based on standardized testing to insure that each grade learns the same material no matter Continue reading...

The article entitled “Performance management is broken” written by Nabaum, Barry and Garr was published online through the official website of Deloitte University Press. The authors discussed relevant issues pertaining to current performance management concerns and practices applied by contemporary organizations. As asserted, the traditional method of rating employees according to pre-defined standards and ranking them in comparison with other colleagues were deemed broken and ineffective. An innovative and more appropriate approach was noted in terms of applying continuous coaching and focusing on training and development for professional growth.
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Caring for the sick is the core of nursing. As a matter of fact, nursing profession evolved from the task of caring for the sick which was initially mainly performed by women (American Association for the History of Nursing, 2006). I believe that nursing profession is a calling rather than just a job that only offers motivation from paycheck. One working in the nursing profession is not only motivated by remuneration but also by one’s attitude towards the profession. It is my philosophy that kindness, patience, devotion to the service of mankind, collaboration, and determination are necessary for Continue reading...

Abstract

People learn through different ways and means. One way is through seeking advice from one`s role models who are generally successful in their life. Life coaching essentially helps people to understand and think differently. Its main objective is to let the one undergoing coaching learn for himself what is good for his or her development. It helps learners develop brighter thinking. The coach does not tell the learners what they ought to do to achieve their dreams and ultimate goals in life. This is to avoid imparting his agenda on the learner. Life coaching appreciates the fact that Continue reading...

Employment can be defined as an individual's business or career. Whereas training, on the other hand, is the methodical strategy to impacting individuals’ information, abilities, and attitudes in order to enhance individual, group, and business effectiveness. Development is simply, the methodical initiatives impacting individuals’ knowledge or abilities for reasons of personal growth or upcoming tasks and/or roles. Thus, the objective of this research is to figure out the efforts of studying casually to career and growth. Professionals do not want learning; they want performance. Informal does not mean accidental. Those who keep informal studying to chance keep money on Continue reading...

Although professional learning is viewed as something which takes place outside the conventional workplace, the truth of the matter is that professional learning takes place every day as instructors take time to reflect on their professional practice and share ideas aimed at improving student outcomes. Nonetheless, in the quest to increase the effectiveness of professional learning, various models have been designed with the objective of getting positive impact on valued student incomes. The models differ in content and structure, and from self-paced initiatives to well-structured initiatives which may earn an individual formal qualification.

Coaching and Mentoring

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Coach Notebook

Coaching refers to the training, teaching or development practices used to help and support the individuals/teams with the intention of accomplishing one specific outcome or goal. The term coaching may also be used informally for a person who has gained greater skills or expertise than others and as a result, he is in a position to offers his experience to assist or guide the learning individual. The learning individual is often referred as coachee or trainee and the skilled person is recognized as a coach.
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Coaching is a professional relationship, where the coach supports the learner to develop ability and capacity to improve on performance management. In the performance management, coaching is giving the chance for feedback on issues related to performance. Coaching improves the employee engagement. This leads to productivity of the employees in the organization. The issues involve the skills and knowledge required to perform the tasks in the organization. Performance management involves activities that the organization undertakes to ensure it delivers the goals and objectives set for the organization.
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Introduction

The request for proposal by the City of Charlottesville focuses on the coaching services and executive development. The RFP response entails how the services will be facilitated and how the coaching process will be carried out. This proposal has a set of strengths and weaknesses that can be evaluated to determine the quality of the proposal. The evaluation of the proposal will be done according to the checklist provided in the Master’s Program handbook. The review will be divided into three main sections. The first section evaluates the first document; the understanding of the RFP and the rationale Continue reading...

Article Review on Training

Training is important in all organizations since it induces excellent performance among employees. Various authors have made different arguments regarding training. One article that has made such attempts is ‘Seven steps to coaching your employees to success’ by Katherine Graham-Leviss. In this article, Katherine outlines the major steps that are important for effective training on employees. According to her, training employees is important since it helps them to gain the skill and competence needed to work in the organization. In addition, training improves the coordination and effectiveness of employees in the organization (Katherine 2011).
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Introduction

The RFP is about seeking for coaching and facilitation services for various departments in the City of Charlottesville. The RFP can be designed to focus on facilitation services only, coaching services or executive services only or both. The RFP was selected because it involves a lot of team training and learning processes. It focuses on the various ways of achieving development through coaching and facilitation.

RFP background

The RFP will be based on the information about Charlottesville city’s leadership program called Charlottesville Leadership Development Academy. The program has been held twice by the city management. It involves a comprehensive 9 Continue reading...

Introduction

Influence models are frameworks that can be used within organizations to impact on employees to improve the efficiency and performance of the organization. Models of influence can also be referred to as models of intervention. Intervention models are designed to mobilize human and capital resources whenever there is a need to restructure the organization to promote growth. There are many models of influence in organizational development. They include; coaching teams and individuals, management and leadership. The three are the major models that are often employed in modern day Organizational Development efforts. The models have similarities in that they all Continue reading...

Sales management and training is a broad domain. It is important to come up with effective and efficient sales management and training strategies and methods as it is not easy to make a sales call or give a sales pitch. The sales personnel and agents should be properly trained and educated in order to increase the chances of the successful sales call and sales pitch. Hence, proper sales training is of high importance in this regard. Apart from this it is highly important to provide the sales team and personnel with proper and competent sales leadership. The sales leadership Continue reading...

Purpose of large system interventions and how individuals are affected

Firms operate in dynamic environments. Kudler Fine Foods is not an exception to this fact. Therefore, it is necessary to appreciate the need for change within the whole organization. Large system interventions are the process of including an entire organization in organizational development. This is because developing an organization using small groups has proved expensive and time consuming. However, with increased global, competition, there is a need to adapt to changes fast enough in order to gain competitive advantage. Large system interventions involve all stakeholders within an organization. It is essential to include everyone during organizational change process. This Continue reading...

Coaching involves an integration of skills and knowledge in enhancing learning, performance and growth (Burton and Raedeke, 2008). To improve on efficiency, a coach requires an understanding and knowledge of processes, styles, techniques and skills, appropriate in his or her coaching context. Coaching provides support and empowerment in a variety of ways; this includes change, focus, vigor etc. As a coach, one is expected to carry out the assigned role based on knowledge, experience, values, beliefs and opinions. This in itself is a form of philosophy that requires consciousness and consistency (Gutgrie, 2003). Successful coaches apply a set of Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...

Larson & Richburg defines leadership coaching as “a stage of personal development developed to improve a leader’s success in fulfilling his/her professional goals within the organization’s business objectives and values.” (Branton, 2006) Hence, this requires not just personal growth and coaching but also on fulfilling the organizational objectives by which the client (or the one being coached) must render a special contribution. Hence, the coach needs to be oriented to the client’s work or professional context/s; his/her work organization, its goals, present objectives and long term goals, organizational values, mission, vision, etc. At the same time, the Continue reading...

Summary

‘Coaching is arguably the most powerful method for developing managers’ capacity for leadership.’1
The International Coach Foundation (ICF) defines coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential”2. As a management practice, coaching in a modern organization is inextricably linked to building a strong leadership pipeline and achieving the high performance standards that are demanded of it. In this report we examine the importance of having a common, structured coaching framework and approach and a supportive organization culture to ensure that both the individual and Continue reading...

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 of Continue reading...

Effective Communication

Communicating effectively is of great importance in the work place. It is especially important for managers who would like to boost the morale and performance of their employees. Coaching is offered to employees who may need extra encouragement and molding so that they may be able to be more productive in their teams or work place. The manager needs to transform from being a figure of authority to being a coach. As a coach it is vital to approach the issue very carefully, and first begin by requesting the particular employee for permission to coach (Craumer, 2001). Offering to Continue reading...

1. Describe the three phases of motor learning and include a discussion of how you as the coach would approach teaching an athlete in each respective phase.
There are three phases of motor learning that a coach can use to teach athletes. These are the cognitive phase, the associative phase, and the autonomous phase. The cognitive phase is the stage where the learner is first introduced to the sports. This is the beginning phase of skill learning. At this stage, me, as the coach should focus on trying to make the learner understand everything about the sports. If I Continue reading...

Compare the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Compare the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
The company of my choice is Coach Inc. and its closest competitor is Michael Kors. Michael Kors was chosen as it belongs to the same industry as Coach and has nearly the same characteristics as it. This means it is its closest competitor available considering the scope of the business. Comparison of the two consolidated financial statement will make Coach aware of where and when they went wrong in order to try and rectify in the future. This will enable them to plan effectively and analyze their previous cases hence enabling them Continue reading...

Leadership Theories
Leadership is a process that a group or an individual impacts a group of individuals to reach a certain or common goal (Parent et. al., n.d.). According to Parent et. al., (n.d.) the literature concerning leadership has transformed from the trait or behavioral approach to the transformational. This change also includes the transactional and charismatic leadership approaches (Parent et. al., n.d.).
According to Kouzes & Posner (2007), on the other hand, Leadership is a chance that can occur at any place or any time. It may happen in a huge or small house, the mall, the school, or Continue reading...

Assignment 1: Press Release

Assignment 2: Discipline Decision
1. Do you discipline the coach at this time? If so, how?
Post the arrest of the coach of the football and after his abusive nature coming to the limelight, it becomes imperative that I should be looking into first discipline the coach. It is well said that a team follows their leader and the similar situation was seen in the case of the State University. Team member knew that the coach will not be looking into correcting them, hence they kept on going with their brawls. As the Coach has pleaded not guilty and Continue reading...

Introduction

Engineering has been hand in hand with sports, however, this relationship has been overlooked by many individuals including the engineers as well as athletes themselves, however; the last two decades have shown that people are beginning to recognize the critical role played by engineering in the enhancement of the performance of sportsmen and women (Czyzewski, 2011). Athletic possess a very technical side which has a strong relationship with engineering that is analyzed can reveal a lot of aspects that can be enhanced through engineering. Engineering has made it possible to analyze athletes using computers in order to determine their Continue reading...

A curious thing about sports at the highest level of performance is that there is often very little difference in physical skills between athletes. The real difference between players is what’s in their heads---who wants it the most, who has the most confidence, the mental toughness to go the extra mile.
Another curious thing regarding sports is that everybody “knows” what mental toughness is; yet, no one really knows how to define it. A search on mental toughness revealed a general lack of conceptual clarity or consensus as to the meaning of mental toughness, or even a consistent Continue reading...

Introduction

Motivation is the drive that an individual has towards a certain goal. Motivation contributes by influencing the effort and interest that an athlete puts to a task. Hager (124) in his study describes motivation as a personal matter because what motivates an individual at a certain time may not motivate another individual at the same time. To improve and maintain an athlete’s performance motivation is essential. Athletes who lack motivation are likely to skip regular session of training and hence may not get to fully train with the required intensity. Miller (87) in his study states that lack Continue reading...

Abstract

Confidence and focus determines one’s success in any sporting activity. Baseball is both a physical and mental game. All forms of success are subject to one’s confidence and self-esteem. For an individual to have a triumphant career in sports, confidence is a mandatory element. Physical talent does not do anyone any good without confidence in performing sports. Several athletes have average physical talent in their sport fields. Their self-confidence propels them to succeed beyond those deemed more talented them. Mohammed Ali is celebrated athlete for his self-confidence. When asked for whom he thought he was, the great Continue reading...

Summary

A Coach's Influence: Beyond the Game is a book written by Grant Teaff. Teaff is a coach, a player and an executive director of the American Football Coach Association. Teaff’s book contains three parts; the introduction, part one and part two. The book talks about the power of influence from the coach. It is a book that discusses issues affecting the youth and solutions to these issues. The book celebrates how football coaches learn from each other through the life of Teaff. Teaff’s book gives coaches and teachers knowledge, experience and techniques to use in solving social Continue reading...

Coach Inc.

Item 1
The financial outcomes and stock price performance have shown the financial stability of the Coach Company. In order to evaluate the financial performance of Coach, we will compare its two financial ratios with that of Dooney & Bourke Company. The net profit margin of coach for fiscal year 2009, 2010 and 2011 were 0.19, 0.20, and 0.21 respectively. The current ratio for Coach of the fiscal year 2010 and 2011 were 2.46 and 2.45 respectively.
The net profit margin for Dooney & Bourke Company for fiscal year 2009, 2010 and 2011 were 0.1, 0.15 and 0.13 respectively. Similarly, the Continue reading...

Introduction

Q1: How does Coach Knight approach player motivation and leading his team? What does this say about his view of players and people?
Coach Knight approached player motivation and leading his team by having a close approach to the players. Knight put emphasis and focus on the exercise and the talents of the players. He showed the talents of the players are great and important in the overall achievements of the team, in basketball. He approached player motivation through rewards and close association with the players. He spent most of his time eating with the players in order to Continue reading...

An Exploration of Female Athletes’ Experiences and Perceptions of Male and Female Coaches

Practice Like a Girl, Compete Like a Boy: Training the Total Athlete

Analysis:
The coach and athlete relationship is important to an athlete’s success and quality of life. Gender can be a factor between athletes and coaches. Women coaches tend to have a different styles from coaches. Male coaches give instructions that are more detailed and women use less structure. Female coaches tend to build relationships that are more personal with their athletes. Male coaches tend to be more authoritarian and are more likely to use an “in your face” style. These are all involved when it comes Continue reading...

Soccer, also known as football, is undoubtedly the most popular sport in the entire world. The origin of soccer can be traced to nearly every corner of the planet. The Japanese, Chinese, Greeks, Persians, Italians, Vikings and many other cultures played some form of soccer long ago. The Chinese are said to have been playing “football” games as far back as 3000 years ago. Modern football however, begun in England in the 1860s where the first football association, the English Football Association, was formed after the split of association football and rugby football. Football rules were being formulated in Continue reading...

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 Continue reading...