John Sadowsky

Evaluating a Leadership Coaching System: Using Storytelling for Leadership Self-expression John Sadowsky

In recent years, we have witnessed a veritable explosion in leadership training and in management coaching. Despite these two trends, research on leadership coaching methods and their usefulness remains scarce. As a practitioner of leadership communication coaching for the past ten years, my research interest stems from a desire to explore and evaluate the effectiveness of such coaching endeavours. Thus, the overall goal of this research is to perform a formal study to test, and to generate hypotheses about, a coaching system I had been using for several years before the research began. This coaching activity involves teaching leaders to communicate and inspire others. To achieve this goal, a comprehensive review of the literature was conducted, in order to demonstrate the theoretical basis that underlies the coaching methods.