Summary: Put Me In Coach Management Style

Put Me in Coach—Coaching Management Style

In today’s marketplace, adding value is key to business success. Successful coaching adds value to employees, who then add value to their organizations by giving their best. Employees want to be happy, productive and innovative, and coaching creates the environment where this can happen. Coaching also supports diversity by recognizing every employee’s uniqueness.

Management Styles

Management styles are the values that underline the approaches, skills and techniques managers use to handle various situations and express leadership within an organization. In an organization, managers perform countless functions and play several roles. They are responsible for handling most situations with each situation usually differing from the other. “Qualities, characteristics and physical structure of managers are one of the most important factors of management style” (Dogaru, 2012).

Managers have to perform many roles in an organization and how they handle various situations will depend on their style of management. Manager styles are dependent upon the situation and the relationship behavior and task behavior required. “Style is indeed partly in the person, but style is also in the organizational hierarchy, in the existing management structure, to be inherited by the new manager” (The health care manger,

Rocereto, Mosca, Gupta, & Rosenberg (2011), suggested that the primary reason there has been a shift from the traditional management style is due to the realization of the many benefits of a coaching management style. Coaching assumes that people have the intellectual resources to find solutions for themselves and enough information about the detail of their subject, the role of the product or service, and the influence within the whole business (McLeod,