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40 Digital coaching: A conceptually distinct form
of coaching?
Stella Kanatouri
The value of coaching as an approach to human development is increasingly
acknowledged. Using technology to facilitate the coaching dialogue and to
support coaching processes adds flexibility and allows to expand the reach
to wider audiences. Whilst the practicality of digital coaching is obvious and
indisputable, understanding the role of coaching media and the experiences
they can produce may be useful for this form of coaching practice to be
optimised. This paper draws on media theories and adopts a phenomeno-
logical view of media to reflect on what happens when the coaching process,
or aspects of it, is digitalised. It seeks to explore the connection between
media capabilities and coaching skills in a digital coaching context, and it
approaches digital coaching as a distinct concept of traditional, presence
coaching.
As the demand for coaching has been growing over the years (Bresser, 2013; ICF
& PwC, 2012, 2016), the addition of technology in coaching practice enables us
to expand coaching offerings on more layers of the organisation and on larger
portions of the population, allowing scalable coaching, independent of geog-
raphy and time zones. Beyond its undeniable practicality however, digitalising
the coaching process or aspects of it raises important questions: What changes
when the coaching process takes place remotely in a virtual space? How might
new media shape the coaching experience? Given the diversity of technological
coaching media and their evolving capabilities, the answer to these questions is
complex. Different media may produce different experiences. Nevertheless, such
questions need to be addressed if we are to seamlessly integrate new media in
the coaching process and to optimise mediated coaching practice.
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Coaching im digitalen Wandel
- Titel
- Coaching im digitalen Wandel
- Herausgeber
- Robert Wegener
- Silvano Ackermann
- Jeremias Amstutz
- Silvia Deplazes
- Hansjörg Künzli
- Annamarie Ryter
- Verlag
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- deutsch, englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-666-40742-0
- Abmessungen
- 15.5 x 23.2 cm
- Seiten
- 166
- Kategorie
- Technik