Date Capstone Completed
5-2023
Document Type
Capstone Project
Degree Name
Masters of Science in Leadership Education: Sport Management
Department
Educational Leadership
Advisor
Raymond Martinez
Location
Grinnell, IA
Abstract
The need to build effective work teams and leaders is crucial to the success of a work team. This becomes difficult in a college setting when a manager employs college students. Employing college students means every year managers are losing senior classes and replacing graduates with new workers. This results in teams losing the most experienced workers and oftentimes team leaders. To counteract this, managers are constantly having to find new leaders on a yearly basis and also continue to develop leaders. This is a challenging task and results in transition periods while new employees and the new leader are settling into leadership roles. Forming a workplace culture is also difficult due to having to constantly replace workers annually. Having constant turnover makes a workplace culture harder to build, and teams take longer to come together. Teams that consistently do not “get it together” over a long period of time put up tough opposition for leaders who want to move forward (Harkins, 2020). Managers need to constantly find ways to mentor employees to help develop leaders and a common practice is to use coaching and mentoring in the workplace.
A study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development found that 70% of the leading employers implement coaching and mentoring in the workplace to create higher organizational performance. The study found that mentoring and coaching in the workplace increase creativity by 69%, learning, and knowledge management by 63%, and motivating workers by 57%. The study also indicated that 93% of all the respondents believed coaching and mentoring is a key mechanism for transferring training skills into the workplace (Kumar, Deshmukh, & Adhish, 2014). Mentoring and coaching create leaders and an overall better work environment. Thus making the managers able to move forward and continue to run the department efficiently and smoothly. This introduction will present the problem statement, describe the background of the problem, the purpose of the study, the research questions of the study, limitations, delimitations, definitions, the significance of the study, and the structure for how the study was designed.
Recommended Citation
Hollibaugh, Ryan, "Creating Student Leaders: Strategies for Midwest College" (2023). Leadership Education Capstones. 84.
https://openriver.winona.edu/leadershipeducationcapstones/84
