Leadership Coaching as a Development Tool: A Mixed Methods Study

This article discusses the importance of leadership coaching as a development tool for managers and leaders. It includes a literature review, implications for theory and leaders, critique of outcomes, and characteristics of mixed method research design.

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Table of Contents
Answer to Question 1.................................................................................................................2
Literature Review Conducted in the Research Article...............................................................2
Answer to Question 7.................................................................................................................3
Implications for Theory and For Leaders...............................................................................3
Answer to Question 8.................................................................................................................4
Critique of the Outcomes in the Research..............................................................................4
Answer to Question 2.................................................................................................................6
Characteristics of Mixed Method Research Design and Evaluate Appropriateness..............6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Answer to Question 1
Literature Review Conducted in the Research Article
The main points that are being mentioned in the research article includes the
importance of the leadership coaching and this is the coaching of the managers along with the
leaders. The formal relationship is described about the different issues related to workplace
and analysis of the improvement of the leadership effectiveness. There are different terms
executive and leadership coaching that are often used interchangeably. Furthermore, it has
been analyzed in the entire literature review that the entire growing body of the literature on
the coaching of leadership has adopted the perspective of the practitioner and the entire
academic research for leadership coaching was lagged behind.
There was an example such leadership coaching study that has claimed that the ROI
of leadership coaching is of 545%. The variables are being defined through discussion of
focus group has been defined that has assisted in analyzing the two-phase exploratory
sequential kind of design that consists of quantitative and qualitative research methods that
will help in assessing the leadership coaching as the development tool for leadership.
Furthermore, a focus group was created in order to analyze the role-efficacy of a
leader in an organization. Proper construction of the self-efficacy is essential in nature that is
required to be inbuilt in an individual to build confidence in handling different activities and
this will determine the entire capability of the leader as well. This includes motivation,
cognitive kind of actions along with other courses of actions to execute a specific kind of task
within a proper and particular context (Mayoh and Onwuegbuzie 2015). It was noticed that
there are different kind of strong indications of salience of the LSE in the entire literature,
and this was found that the efficacy of leadership was strongly related to the performance
ratings of leadership as well.

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Additionally, it was seen that the self-efficacy of leaders has been shown in an
effective manner that strongly correlate to the personality and there are different empirical
indications of the organizational contextual kind of antecedents. The different studies that has
been investigated the effect of the coaching on leadership is based on the efficacy of the
leadership beliefs along with coaching that created a positive impact on the confidence that is
required to be provided to the leaders who are performing their activities and job in the
organizations. () has helped in finding that there was positive linkage between mentoring and
leader efficacy as well.
Answer to Question 7
Implications for Theory and For Leaders
There are different theories that have been discussed in the respective article that
includes the substantive theory building on the leadership coaching as one of the leadership
development tools. The different kinds of recent development in the leadership theory has
helped in suggesting that leadership is enabled and produced by the relational processes.
The implication of the relational leadership theory helps in offering view of the
leadership as the mutual kind of influence process between the leaders along with the
different subordinates. This respective theory has suggested that the confidence of the leaders
on their subordinates’ competence which is crucial in nature for relational leadership to take
place (Creswell and Creswell 2017)
In this respective leadership theory, this has been noticed that the trust of the leaders
on their subordinates is essential in nature for optimal functioning in broad range of high
quality subordinate and leader relationship. Furthermore, the theory related to self-efficacy is
linked with trust of the different leaders on the different subordinates. The significant kind of
relationship between the increased kind of LTS has helped the leaders in analyzing the

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different requirements of the leaders effectively. Furthermore, the main objective of the
respective study is to contribute towards the substantive theory that helps in building
leadership coaching as the development tool.
The recent developments in the leadership theory suggest that leadership is produced
and this is being enabled by the different relational processes. However, despite the extensive
body of the entire literature on the trust in subordinate and leadership relationships. In the
review of literature on the level of trust across the different organizations. Lewis (2015) has
commented that there were different studies that was related to the trust that is required as
this will help in reducing the risks while working with the subordinates in the team.
In order to advance theory along with research on the respective issue, this can be
analyzed that the leadership coaching impacts is not only on LRE and there is no such trust
between the different subordinates. Proper relational theory review is essential in nature and
this has been performed by the leaders in the company as the different empirical studies have
been conducted in order to create trust among the different employees in the organization that
is associated with the organizational outcomes. The literature review has suggested that the
propensity of the leaders is to trust subordinates and this will help in analyzing the situations
effectively.
Answer to Question 8
Critique of the Outcomes in the Research
The main outcomes in the respective was to contribute towards the development of
the theory of the leadership coaching as one of the development tools of leadership. The
study furthermore adds to the entire knowledge base of both the summative and formative
kind of evaluation and this has argued that the coaching on leadership is the valuable
development tool for leadership. The main strength of the study basically lies in usage of the

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mixed methods design that is comprising of both qualitative and quantitative methods that
provided with different opportunities for development and expansion. The combination of the
different data and sources have provided clear kind of picture on the different effects of
leadership coaching as the leadership development tool (Creswell and Clark 2017).
The researchers tried to achieve the stated research objective up to a certain extent and
there were different potential limitations. There were some important challenges that the
coaching studies met was regarding the possibility of the selection bias. There were different
previous studies wherein it was seen that there were different limits on the generalization of
the findings and this respective study was limited and generalized in nature for the different
leaders and they motivate for the development of leader as well (Creswell 2014).
Furthermore, the study or the main objective of the study was towards the entire
contribution to the entire development of the team development and this will help in
analyzing the importance of the different participation of the employees in making different
kinds of decisions in an effective manner. The entire study was conducted in Norway and this
helped in implying that this is culture specific in nature and this was less relevant in nature
for the other countries as well (Smith 2013).
The entire design of the study was prepared in such a manner that this was not being
able to be compatible in nature as the different countries will be having different kinds of
national differences and the cultural differences will be difficult in order to handle the various
issues in an effective manner as well. Lastly, the limitations of the study were mainly due to
differences in the perceptions of the individuals which caused due to the pre-post design and
control group as well. This was noticed in Norway there were different kinds of differences in
comparison to the other countries that can create differences in the opinions.

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Answer to Question 2
Characteristics of Mixed Method Research Design and Evaluate Appropriateness
There are different kinds of advantages of the mixed research method that includes
this helps in providing proper strength that helps in offsetting the weaknesses of both
qualitative and quantitative research. This respective approach helps in reducing the different
weaknesses and this will draw from the different strengths of the qualitative and quantitative
research methodology. The other characteristics of the mixed method of the research is that
this respective methodology will help in recognizing the value of the entire knowledge and
this helps in constructing through different kind of qualitative means based on the factual
aspects of the world in which the individual live.
Furthermore, the main and essential characteristics of the mixed method approach is
that this mixed kind of approach will reject the dualism and this helps in setting face based
along with subjectively based methodologies as this will create value only in exclusively
from each other (Mertens 2014). Furthermore, it was seen and noticed that there were
combination of both qualitative and quantitative approaches and this applied two phase
exploratory design that will help in analyzing the different effect of the leadership coaching
by the different subordinates and leaders on themselves.
The study was entirely conducted in such a manner that using the mixed methods
design wherein the different elements of the quantitative and qualitative approach of the
research and the study will help in assessing the different outcomes of the leadership
coaching with the implementation of the mixed methods design that comprises of the focus
group along with both quantitative and qualitative research done effectively as well. It has
been noticed that the mixed design method assists in designing leadership coaching with
missed design approach that comprises of the focus group and the main kind of objective was
to provide appropriate kind of outcome and maintain essence of the coaching. This tried to

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enable the assessment of the effectiveness of the coaching based on leadership that consists of
leadership development tool that creates huge impact on the entire organizations and
employees who are performing the activities in the entire organization.
Furthermore, the mixed research design was appropriate in nature in handling the
different activities based on the leadership as this will help in analyzing the different kinds of
combination of the both qualitative and quantitative design in an effective manner. The main
strength of the study lies in usage of the mixed method that designing the qualitative and
quantitative methods that has helped in providing opportunities for expansion and
development as well.

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