Coaching & Leadership

Coaching involves expressing implicit knowledge through language, which promotes aesthetic awareness and stimulates aesthetic learning processes involving thinking, feeling, and reflecting. Meaning-making can occur through personal experiences and knowledge as well as through social negotiation and narratives, leading to experiential and social learning. Experimental meaning-making combines previous experience and knowledge during the present moment. Adults spend a significant amount of their lives within work environment (almost a quarter if an average lifetime), making the interactions in organizations highly important. Power relationships (leader-team) thus become topic of constant development.

Authors of this review:

Nikita Goncharenko

Date of Publication:

20/08/2023

Academic Reference:

Coaching and leadership (by Reinhard Stelter & Sidonio Serpa 2017)

Tags:sports psychology football coaching

Key Ideas

Attention to the present moment (uncovering the implicit). The main idea of coaching is to rely on "the concrete situation" observation

The idea of coaching is to put implicit (knowledge) into words (language). That leads to aesthetic awareness, where thinking, feeling, and reflecting over the given course of actions stimulates aesthetic learning processes.

"Meaning-making" ways: (1) Through actual experiences & knowledge from life contexts: (1.1) concept of aesthetic learning; (1.2) concept of experiential meaning-making; (2) Through social negotiation & narratives (describe a person’s life practice): it's a form of social learning, which means understanding relationships and the importance of others for creating relationships.

Concept of experimental meaning-making is based on previous experience and knowledge plus here-and-now (pre-reflective: implicit knowledge - e.g. auto-pilot)

Phases of Epoche: (1) Suspension of habitual thoughts; (2) Conversion/orientation of attention from the external to the internal; (3) Letting-go or responsiveness towards (a) immediate experiences; (b) knowledge;

Estimated that most adults spend about a quarter of the time at the place of work during working life.

Citations

Epoche - suspension of judgement (attitude of non-involvement in order to gain peace of mind for daily living)

"Leadership - a set of behaviors influencing groups (a) individuals; (b) groups; towards specific goals also being characterized by interaction & power."

"Transformational Leadership — Type of personal influence on the subordinates promoting the ownership of the organization and/or leader’s vision, as well as inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation"

"Coaching — An approach to learning and leadership where the aim is to develop athletic, personal and social potential and the ability for self-regulation of the person or the team to be coached."

"Aesthetic - as regards to sensing [sense, feel]."

External References

Chelladurai, P. (2007). Leadership in sports. In Tenenbaum G. and Eklund R. (Eds.), Handbook of sport psychology. New Jersey: John Wiley and sons. p. 113-135.

Stelter, R. (2007). Coaching: A process of personal and social meaning making. International Coaching Psychology Review 2(2). p. 191-201.