The foundations of the contributions and limits of coaching in leadership development

Abstract

Leadership is one of the issues frequently highlighted in several scientific studies due to its importance in the business world. While management coaching has historical roots in professional development, its growth has particularly increased in recent decades. Since leadership development and coaching are linked in one way or another, few studies have addressed this relationship, this is what we are interested in presenting, and this is the objective of our article. So now is the time to highlight the importance of coaching for leadership development. We therefore engaged in the strategy of bringing the two concepts together by presenting the contributions and limits of these terms based on agreed definitions and a literature review inspired by previous studies. We have also collected the most important studies and theories that have allowed us to analyze the relationship between successful leadership and coaching, and the role of the latter in leadership development. The theoretical framework presented was chosen as the basis of the conceptual model of our research. By seeking to understand the contributions of coaching in the development of leadership as a research problem. The results show that coaching, obviously, contributes to leadership development. However, our analyzes of syntheses of previous studies also revealed that some leadership theories can be applied to the field of coaching. The success of coaching does not only depend on coaching work, we can increase our chances of obtaining maximum success by relying on rigorous criteria.

Keywords: Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Development.

JEL Classification : M53, J24, M12, M54 

Paper type: Theoretical Research