Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks

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Activity

Step 1

In your journal reflect on the following questions:

What skills do you need to develop to become an effective coach?

Think of a situation in which you benefited from either formal or informal

coaching? What did you learn? What made the experience valuable?

Who in your program team would benefit from formal or informal coaching?

How might you organise this?

References

Goleman, D. (2000). Leadership that gets results. Harvard Business Review, 78(2), 78-90.

Zeus, P., & Skiffington, S. (2000). The complete guide to coaching at work. Sydney: McGraw-Hill.

Zeus, P., & Skiffington, S. (2002). The coaching at work toolkit: A complete guide to techniques

and practices. Rosewille, New South Wales: McGraw-Hill.