Reciprocal peer coaching as a strategy for the development of leadership and management competency

Adequate knowledge, cognitive skill and metacognition are the key ingredients leading to the development of leadership mastery. In this teaching demonstration, the application of reciprocal peer coaching to influence knowledge, cognition and more importantly metacognition is discussed. Metacognition is a higher order cognitive process that involves evaluating the state of one’s own knowledge base. Hence, metacognition includes such things as knowing what one knows, knowing when and how one comes to know it, being able to think and plan strategically, the ability to represent knowledge effectively and in ways that permit efficient retrieval, and the ability to monitor and consistently evaluate one’s own competence. It is the application of metacognition that leads to expertise as it is used to self-evaluate the knowledge framework of the leader.