Professional Coaching in Leadership Development

Professional coaching is a vastly under‐explored idea in leadership development. Shows how professional coaching is a management tool of great potential, and can transform the performance of top management. Coaching can help to manage relationships, improve self‐awareness of personal impact, and unlock oneself from rigid ways of perceiving others and their problems. It is particularly relevant for isolated top management because managers need someone with whom they can communicate and discuss ideas without fear of organizational or career repercussions.