Topics Leaders Bring to Coaching
In the article What do leaders really want to learn in a workplace? A study of the shifting agendas of leadership coaching, Leadership 2024, Vol. 20(4) 187–206, Tatiana Bachkirova and Peter Jackson from the Oxford Brookes Business School explain the types of leaders' developmental needs that take priority at different stages of coaching engagements.
Observations are made of the frequencies of different topics that emerge most commonly in coaching conversations at three time points in the coaching intervention: the beginning, middle and end (T1, T2, T3). The frequency of the different topics at each of the three time points are set out in Figure 2: Frequency of agenda items (Primary and Secondary aggregated) across T1, T2, T3, ordered by T1 total:
