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- Title
Peer Coaching: A Relational Process for Accelerating Career Learning.
- Authors
PARKER, POLLY; HALL, DOUGLAS T.; KRAM, KATHY E.
- Abstract
We examine the nature of peer coaching and frame it as a type of developmental tool that can enhance personal and professional development. We begin with a discussion of the relational perspective on career learning, which provides a context for peer coaching as a tool that can accelerate career learning. We distinguish between peer coaching and the related concepts of mentoring and peer mentoring and discuss factors that facilitate the development of this type of helping relationship. We offer a discussion of the key characteristics of effective peer-coaching relationships, and we provide an empirical test of the impact of these characteristics with a survey of MBA students. We also offer a theoretical model of peer coaching, along with propositions for future research. We conclude that when peer coaching works best for a person, it happens through a 3-step process of (1) building the developmental relationship, (2) creating success in development, and (3) internalizing the learning tactic by applying the peer-coaching process in future relationships.
- Subjects
CAREER development; BUSINESS students; PEER relations; MENTORING; EMPLOYEE training; EDUCATIONAL surveys
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2008, Vol 7, Issue 4, p487
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/AMLE.2008.35882189