Leadership development through coaching: a case study
The Defence Acquisition University is an example of how professional coaching schemes can work alongside training and development programmes to produce impressive results
Training, executive education and leadership development programming are part of many organisations’ overall talent-management packages, providing key and rising leaders with structured opportunities for skills development and general self-improvement. There’s no doubt about it: investing in learning and leadership development is a win-win for the organisations and individuals who benefit from it.
However, a growing body of evidence shows that training and leadership development programmes are more effective when they include a coaching component. Because coaching is client-driven, it is inherently open to individualisation. As such, it is the perfect complement to already existing programming, providing a structured opportunity to set and pursue goals and put learning from mentoring conversations and classroom training into action.
