Application: Challenges In Coaching For Leadership Development

Application: Challenges and Strategies
In any coaching engagement, coaches must anticipate potential challenges that could derail a client's progress. Being aware of potential coaching challenges and being prepared to address those challenges makes for a smooth coaching process with optimum outcomes. While you might think this is a daunting task at first, there are specific "signs" that often mean trouble, some of which you explored in Week 2, "The Leaders" and Week 3, "The Organizations." For instance, you may remember that specific leader characteristics and organizational factors and conditions can stand in the way of the effectiveness of coaching for leadership development. To prepare to address these challenges and others, you must be aware of coaching strategies that are proven effective. You also must determine which of these strategies work best with specific leaders and in specific organizations. Keep all of this in mind as you complete the following assignment in which you will identify and address possible challenges that might arise in a coaching engagement using specific coaching strategies.
To prepare for this assignment:
Review the book excerpt, "Coaching Executives: Individual Leader Development." Pay particular attention to the coaching functions in each stage of the "six-step executive coaching process." Consider the challenges that may arise in each stage and how you might address them.
Review the online chapter, "Coaching Executives." Think about the systemic causes of client problems and consider how these causes might be challenging for a coach to address. Consider the challenges related to coaching Henry in the chapter's case study and how the case study coach addressed these challenges.
Review the online chapter, "An Iterative Approach to Executive Coaching." Focus on the common problems exhibited in leaders. Think about the challenges that might occur when coaches address these problems and what strategies they might use.
Review the online chapter, "Behind the Mask: Coaching through Deep Interpersonal Communication." Consider challenges related to working with leaders as opposed to other employees in an organization. Think about how "deep interpersonal communication" might be used to address these challenges.
Review your Application Assignments from Week 2 and Week 3, focusing on leader characteristics and organizational factors and/or conditions that might detract from coaching for leadership development. Consider the challenges you might face because of these characteristics, factors, and conditions, and how you might address them.
Reflect on the approaches, models, and frameworks from Week 4 and the specific coaching strategies assumed in each.
Review your Application Assignment from Week 5, focusing on the client's assessment data and the leadership competencies requiring further development.
With the assessment data and case study in mind, identify at least three challenges you might encounter as a coach working with this client.
Select at least three specific coaching strategies that you would use to address the three challenges you identified. Note: At least one strategy must be from the approach, model, or framework you selected for the Week 4 Discussion thread.
The assignment: (1–2 pages)
Identify the client you selected for the Week 4 Discussion, the Week 5 Application, and this week's Application Assignment.
Briefly describe at least three challenges you might encounter when working with the client you selected.
Explain how you might address each challenge using specific coaching strategies. (Note: At least one strategy should be from the approach, model, or framework you selected for the Week 4 Discussion.)
Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. All resources must be cited in text, and included in an APA formatted reference section following APA style.