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ORGANIZATIONAL AND EXECUTIVE COACHING

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Comprehensive overview of business coaching theory, methodology and techniques, including organizational coaching theories and frameworks, coaching skills and techniques and executive coaching, resulting in an experiential and individualized leader development process that builds a leader’s capability to achieve short- and long-term organizational goals.

RATIONALE

Organizational and executive coaching form the foundation of the student’s ability to critically evaluate aspects of organizational culture. This is accomplished through the practical application of the methodologies, techniques, and assessments conducted within the executive coaching framework. The specific application of the coaching strategies directly supports the organization’s leadership in designing and implementing programs to improve current practices.

MISSION/VISION/PHILOSOPHY

The mission of the DBA program is to provide an opportunity for qualified students to attain academic, professional, and practical competence—within the Christian worldview—which prepares students for opportunities, and corresponding additional responsibilities, beyond the master’s degree level. The DBA program emphasizes practical and real-world applications in both the course work and the major applied doctoral research project requirements.

The vision of the DBA program is to produce graduates with intellectual and professional competencies in the following areas:

• the ability to present and defend arguments based on theories, concepts, and empirical evidence in matters relating to research methodology and research design, as well as those relating to the business disciplinary domain in which the research is located;

• the ability to demonstrate the capacity for reflective and analytical business thinking;

• the ability to draw together relevant concepts and theories from different business disciplines in order to gain a better understanding of the organizational context in which particular problems or opportunities arise;

• the ability to analyze problems and issues arising in business and management contexts, utilizing relevant theories, concepts, and empirical findings;

• the ability to identify and analyze questions and issues in business; and

• the ability to design, implement, and successfully conclude empirical research projects.

Each of the above will be considered in light of biblical principles, and be integrated within the Christian worldview.
 
The DBA program philosophy supports both the program mission and vision, and is as follows. PhD programs in business focus intensively on preparing candidates for academic careers and to conduct highly specialized academic research, i.e., the development of new theory in business and other related business fields.

Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) programs focus on the application of theory rather than on the development of new theory. While also intended to prepare graduates for academic careers, the DBA, by virtue of its focus on application of theory, has more practical application in managerial settings than the PhD.

THEMATIC INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING PAPER INSTRUCTIONS

APA Formatting Times New Roman 12 pt font. Double Spaced

You must fully leverage the discussion opportunity in Discussion Board Forum 2 in order to research and outline your approach for this assignment.

The paper must contain the following components:

1. A 4page overview that defines the course as an academic field of study (significance of the course to business).

2. A 4 page discussion of the best5–8 questionsyou believe are critical in order to demonstrate that a student who completes this course see attached syllabuscan synthesize the key concepts in organizational and executive coaching and formulate the strengths and weaknesses of the stated approaches to coaching.

3. A 4 page discussion that integrates the concepts from the Keller and Alsdorf (2012) Every Good Endeavor ISBN: 9780525952101text into a cohesive understanding of why organizational and executive coaching is significant foradvancing God’s purposes for business on earth.

4. A minimum of 5 references (including scholarly references) in addition to the course texts.
 
Concepts to begin guiding your thought in this area are taken from key course texts andsupplemental sources.

Underhill, McAnally,&Koriath (2007) Executive Coaching for Results -ISBN: 9781576754481reflect:

Rather than offering solutions, the coach helps the leader dare to look at inner resistance, to understand consequences, to find new strategies, and to practice—thus stretching beyond current limitations for new behaviors. (p. 26)

Organizations that create leadership development approaches linked to company strategies have answered key questions, such as: What is our business strategy? and, How do we develop leaders capable of executing our strategy? (p. 30)

What is the purpose for coaching? (p. 37) (How is the organization’s leadership viewed by peers and employees?)

The managing of key relationships is also critical to the success of the program. (p. 39)

Hunt & Weintraub (2017)The Coaching Manager - ISBN: 9781483391656discuss:

We are acutely aware that the preceding paragraph might already scare off some folks who are interested in improving their ability to coach their people. Please don't be frightened! You don't have to be perfect at this stuff to be effective. You have to be OK. Intent does matter here, along with your ability to receive feedback from those you coach. In reality, the relationship, as perceived by both parties, is just important if not more important than the techniques of coaching.

Recent research, which we'll rely on later in this and in several subsequent chapters, has confirmed this (Gregory & Levy, 2011). If you are genuinely trying to help and you occasionally jump into too quickly, and you've let your people know that you need their help to help them, you'll do just fine. Yes, practice does help. Perfection, though, is not what you're trying to achieve. This is a very human process.(p.6)

As such, in addition to some basic skills, trust between the parties here is obviously a critically important enabling factor (Gregory & Levy, 2011). That's why intent is so important. If you are really trying to help, not to punish, if you really do want to know what is happening with your people and their work, and if you behave accordingly (we'll talk about this in great detail), sufficient trust will materialize in your relationships with your people for coaching to take place. (Of course, intent by itself will not be enough if you are inadvertently undermining your efforts to build trust by behaving in a fashion that contradicts your intent. This can happen without your awareness). (pp.6-7)
 
These excerpts provide insights designed to lead learners to the edge of the thematic precipice without laying bare the potential spiritual and biblical correlations within.As a final observation, consider approaches used in coaching, such as the content of questions asked, the timing of specific questions, and the circumstances surrounding the person’s decision for—or need for—coaching. Then, consider carefully the context surrounding the lives of Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul, Barnabas, and Jesus Christ, to name only a few.

DISCUSSION BOARD FORUM2 INSTRUCTIONS

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The purpose of this forum is to research and write a 600–750-word roughdraft for the Thematic Integration of Faith and Learning Paper, which will be submitted in Module 6/Week 6. Review the Thematic Integration of Faith and Learning Paper Instructions. You must relate course concepts to specific biblical examples of coaching in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.Cite sources, including the course texts and scholarly sources, and include a reference listin current APA format.