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Coaching for Professional Development - Using literature to support success (Paperback)
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Coaching has emerged as one of the most significant aids in
developing managers and executives in the professional world. Yet
there is a degree of dissatisfaction with performance coaching
models and a desire to connect more with creativity and the
imagination. In Coaching for Professional Development: Using
Literature to Support Success, Christine A. Eastman suggests that
literary works have a part to play in bringing about a change in
coaching culture. Using a series of examples from key literary
texts, she argues that literature can help coaches enhance their
skills, find solutions to workplace problems, and better articulate
their own ideas through innovation and imagination. Eastman argues
for literature as a coaching tool, detailing how using stories of
loss, failure, alienation and human suffering in a coaching
dialogue bring positive results to organisational coaching.
Coaching for Professional Development considers how reading fiction
helps us to imagine lives outside our own, and how this sensitivity
of language brings out the unconscious within us and others.
Eastman discusses how she guided her students to embrace literature
as a positive influence on their coaching practice through literary
texts. Chapter 1 begins by exploring how reading Melville's
Bartleby the Scrivener allowed her students to understand the
importance of metaphor in their own coaching, with Chapter 2
illuminating how Cather's Neighbor Rosicky addresses the role of
emotion. After this, Eastman considers how John Cheever's
multi-layered story The Swimmer provides rich stimulus for coaching
students in understanding failure, how Miller's Death of a Salesman
shows how our family relationships are reflected in our office
dynamics, and how the reactions of her students engaging with
Lampedusa's The Leopard are more effective than the traditional
coaching tool, Personalisis, in revealing their personality. She
finally looks at Shakespeare's The Tempest for exploring themes of
power and manipulation in a coaching context. By applying coaching
models to fictional scenarios, Eastman demonstrates that coaches,
HR professionals and students can successfully extend the
boundaries of their coaching, strengthen their interventions and
enhance their understanding of theory. Coaching for Professional
Development: Using Literature to Support Success is a unique
approach to coaching with engaging case studies throughout that
brings together higher education and industry. It will be key
reading for coaches in practice and in training who wish to enhance
creativity in their work, advisors and teachers on coaching
courses, and HR and L&D professionals working in organizations
seeking to implement a coaching culture.
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