Know thyself: Coaching for leadership using Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory
By E. F. Turesky, Dennis Gallagher. Coaching Psychologist, 2011
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This article discusses the role of professional coaches who apply Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory as a means of enhancing their client’s leadership capabilities. The authors posit that Kolb’s four learning modes and styles provide a guiding structure for professional coaches to individualise their approach to coaching leaders to overcome the leader’s overreliance on their dominant learning style and appropriately access more effective behaviours in handling the myriad of responsibilities they face. It is equally important for coaches to know their own learning styles to be more effective in their coaching role. A coach’s ability to access all four modes and learning styles in themselves can foster more effective coaching practices so that they may more effectively coach others whose learning styles are different from their own. The authors conclude that Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory provides a sound theoretical framework to help professional coaches in the development of the organisation’s leadership capacity.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology
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- Assessing Experiential Learning Styles: A Methodological Reconstruction and Validation of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (2013, background): “An appeal of Kolb's Experiential Learning Model is its focus on the experiential learning process rather than on fixed learning traits (Turesky & Gallagher, 2011), providing for an acknowledgement and incorporation of personal change and development in the model (Healey & Jenkins, 2000).”