With a firm underpinning of academic literature to support your arguments, critically discuss the value of coaching to the individual.
It is expected that this section will start with a brief discussion about the definition and meaning of coaching and/or mentoring.
Begin this section of the paper by briefly but critically examining different definitions of coaching and/or mentoring. What do the terms mean to the different writers who write about them?
The assignment then requires you to read a range of texts to critically examine the evidence that coaching brings value to the client. What does the research done by different people show is the value?
After briefly examining what different people say coaching/mentoring are, the focus in part one is on examining what different people say about the value of coaching to the individual.
So you should be examining the research evidence about impact/value of coaching to the individual, and not discussing different theories of coaching.
That said, you may find in the research evidence that some forms of coaching add more value than others. If so, then you should say so.
