COACHING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT: USE AND UNDERSTANDING

There were two rationales for this research. Firstly, coaching is growing in popularity yet there is a lack of literature on the perception and use of this instrument by managers in general. Secondly, there is a need to see if coaching is perceived as an instrument for the project managers to use complementary to the traditional functions of project administration in order to acquire other competencies that modern project management requires. The research is based on the study of recent publications and a questionnaire to see how coaching in perceived and use in Romania. We intended to study if there were any confusions regarding the coaching concept and how it is perceived and the way it is used by the project managers. The research revealed that coaching is more and more used in Romania and it is indeed perceived and used as an powerful instrument for managing teams to achieve their goals.