Towards co-constructed coaching: Exploring the integration of coaching and co-constructed autoethnography in leadership development. Issue 4 (September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kempster, Steve; Iszatt-White, Marian
• Is Part Of: Management learning. Volume 44:Issue 4(2013)
• Page Start: 319
• Page End: 336
• Publication Date: 2013-09
• Subjects: Autoethnography -- co-constructed coaching -- executive coaching -- leadership development -- practice; Industrial management -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Executives -- Training of -- Periodicals; Organizational learning -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; 302.35
• DOI: 10.1177/1350507612449959
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-7307

Abstract

This article introduces a new method for leadership development: co-constructed coaching. The terrain of executive coaching is outlined and contrasted with co-constructed coaching that draws on the research method of co-constructed autoethnography. In particular the relative merits of directive versus non-directive leadership development interventions are examined, along with the issue of multiple agendas in coaching/research relationships in this context, and the implications, both positive and negative, of having a highly informed active partner in the leadership learning process. The paper makes a contribution to management learning by presenting co-constructed coaching as a credible and potentially beneficial alternative to executive coaching by enabling a critically reflexive dialogue.