Coaching as a leadership style and a business education model

Abstract

The scientific interest in the concept of coaching is subject to the fact that in the modern business environment, the coaching becomes an integral element of leadership development. Accordingly, the attention is focused on the best practice of coaching and there is a need for the distribution of coaching methodology in the educational activities of the educational institutions. The main goal of this study is to synthesize the international research materials on the concept of coaching as a leadership style and business education model, and the establishment of directions for the distribution of coaching methodology in the institutions of the higher education in general and business education. Our main contribution consists in a brief but simultaneously meaningful overview of the issues with the comparison of data from the international studies on the reliable sources. The processing and synthesis of the results was carried out in the focus of the establishment of localization areas and the definition of the conceptual directions of the change in the system of training. As a result, the conclusion is that the primary transformation of the educational environment will require the field of knowledge related to people, including business education, which is impossible without the awareness of the leaders of the educational institutions of the objectivity of these processes and the possibilities of obtaining certain advantages in the market of the educational services.