Langbeschreibung
In Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success, Christine Eastman suggests that literary works have a part to play in bringing about a change in coaching culture. Using examples from key literary texts, she argues that literature can help coaches enhance their skills through innovation and imagination.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Chapter 1: Leadership and Its Absence: Herman Melville's "Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street"; Chapter 2: The Space to Tell One's Story: Willa Cather's "Neighbor Rosicky"; Chapter 3: Coaching, Memory and Emotion: John Cheever's "The Swimmer" and James Baldwin's "Notes of a Native Son"; Chapter 4: Sales Coaching, Dysfunction, and Family: Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman; Chapter 5: Coaching and Writing: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard; Conclusion: Coaching with Shakespeare?