TY  - JOUR
TI  - Evaluating the effectiveness of executive coaching: Where are we now and where do we need to be?
AU  - MacKie, D.
AB  - To date there have been no universally accepted criteria for what constitutes a successful outcome in executive coaching. This has been partly a function of the range of activities undertaken within the coaching medium and partly the fact that commercial realities mitigate against controlled trials teasing out mediating and moderating variables. Consequently we may need to look elsewhere for some inspiration in how to assess outcome in executive coaching. Both the training and psychotherapy literature have a long history in addressing the problem of evaluating outcomes in their respective domains. The Kirkpatrick model of four-stage evaluation is now nearly 50 years old and suggests key criteria for the effective evaluation of training and management development interventions. The psychotherapy literature has by necessity advocated controlled trials of different therapies and established key process and outcome variables that predict an effective intervention. Incorporating some of their key insights and findings on evaluation should help to accelerate the executive coaching evidence base.
IS  - 4
JO  - Australian Psychologist
PY  - 2007
SP  - 310
EP  - 318
UR  - www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00050060701648217
VL  - 42
LA  - English
ER  -