Question

Davidson was recently promoted to the position of Manager of the IT Department of his company. Because of Davidson's lack of prior experience in a management role, the management of the company appointed a consultant to help Davidson improve his interpersonal skills and to provide effective decision-making strategies that Davidson could use to resolve conflicts within his team. In this scenario, Davidson's consultant can be best described as an:_________

a. expatriate
b. arbitrator
c. leadership coach
d. boomerang employee

Answer 1

c. leadership coach

Step-by-step explanation:

It is correct to say that in this scenario, Davidson's consultant can best be described as a leadership coach, who is a professional hired by a company to help managers develop their skills in order to exercise effective leadership in the company.

A leadership coach will help to improve a manager's abilities to know how to communicate assertively, to motivate, train and help his subordinates so that organizational goals and objectives are achieved as planned and so that there is an organizational culture based on cooperation, productivity and development.