Coaching IT project teams: a design toolkit

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 577-590

  Rezania, Davar ^a   Lingham, Tony ^b  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaching; Conversation; Learning; Project teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960042372     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538370910991151     Document Type: Article

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