The CoPE® (Coaching Professional Education) effect: Motivating and Moving Clients Forward

This article provides a review of motivation from the Hawthorne Study to the present, incorporating a rather broad spectrum of leadership theories as well.  Leadership theories tend to focus on the management or business side, yet upcoming grassroots studies reveal that is not the case.  Leadership is not just a way to control employees or productivity; rather, it takes an artistic individual and creativity to gather forces together, especially in challenging environments, such as prisons, to reinvent a resurgance of motivation (for both the correctional environment and inmates returning to society.  Further, it is not merely science, focusing on methodology or analysis.  The  ideology of science within schools of business schools does not necessarily belong with leadership or motivation.  However, the importance of coaching strategies and goals that keep organizations moving forward can render exceptional creative ideas in the board room.