This dissertation explores the developmental consciousness (DC) of a sample of certified professional coaches using Kegan's (1982) constructive developmental theory as its foundati...
This study examines how the mentoring experiences of professional staff in a South African university enhance their social integration and professional development. Drawing on soci...
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was applied to explore coaches’ experience using a values-based coaching framework within an international non-profit organisation. The ‘Co...
There is a lack of research considering coaching and mentoring as related concepts. The Voice of Holland (TVOH) has been subject of a longitudinal empirical study to fill this rese...
Doctors' wellbeing is overlooked, although stress and burnout is high. Evidence suggests links between mentoring and health and wellbeing, but little is known. This mixed methods, ...
Although dialogue is the main medium of communication in the helping professions, writing, mainly throughout journaling, has been extensively used in different therapeutic contexts...
Complexity theory, including non-linear dynamics, provides a powerful approach to understanding and analysing complex interactions as seen when group members learn and develop. How...
There is limited empirical efficacy evidence on the confluence of artificial intelligence (AI) and organisational and life coaching. Coaching “works” but is often unavailable or un...
We examined the buffering effects of virtual coaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a pre-post quasi-experimental design, we compared change in well-being, social behaviour...
We examined the buffering effects of virtual coaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a pre-post quasi-experimental design, we compared change in well-being, social behaviour...
Workplace coaching has grown in popularity and is increasingly used for a plethora of purposes across organisations. As a growing field, coaching is still in need of a continuing c...
Gender equality in organisational leadership is still poor. Evidence suggests that women may experience lower levels of self-confidence than men and that this may influence the re...
This paper presents a critique of current norms relating to reflective practice and coaching ethics in the context of our aspirations as coaches and supervisors to contribute to ...
The racial reckoning that occurred after the murder of George Floyd and the remote workplace dynamics created by the pandemic contributed to the tension that many Black professio...
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was applied to explore coaches’ experience using a values-based coaching framework within an international non-profit organisation. The ‘...
There is a lack of research considering coaching and mentoring as related concepts. The Voice of Holland (TVOH) has been subject of a longitudinal empirical study to fill this res...
This study examines how the mentoring experiences of professional staff in a South African university enhance their social integration and professional development. Drawing on soc...
Doctors' wellbeing is overlooked, although stress and burnout is high. Evidence suggests links between mentoring and health and wellbeing, but little is known. This mixed methods,...
Although dialogue is the main medium of communication in the helping professions, writing, mainly throughout journaling, has been extensively used in different therapeutic context...
Complexity theory, including non-linear dynamics, provides a powerful approach to understanding and analysing complex interactions as seen when group members learn and develop. H...
There is limited empirical efficacy evidence on the confluence of artificial intelligence (AI) and organisational and life coaching. Coaching “works” but is often unavailable or u...
We examined the buffering effects of virtual coaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a pre-post quasi-experimental design, we compared change in well-being, social behavio...
We examined the buffering effects of virtual coaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a pre-post quasi-experimental design, we compared change in well-being, social behavio...
This paper describes a change project which seeks to introduce a coaching culture within an academic faculty. It discusses the changing academic labour market and the pressures thi...
Life coaching can contribute to goal attainment, quality of life, and psychological well-being enhancement. We explored the capacity of a speech-based conversational agent coach (C...
This paper describes a change project which seeks to introduce a coaching culture within an academic faculty. It discusses the changing academic labour market and the pressures thi...
Coaching is widely adopted by various types of organizations in order to facilitate the achievement of personal, professional and organisational goals. This case study of a coachin...
Lack of coachee readiness impacts negatively on the effectiveness of coaching. Despite the general awareness of the phenomena that influence coachee readiness, this concept needs b...
Group coaching has potential to enhance individual and organisational outcomes but demonstrating its effectiveness remains difficult. Practitioners are often caught between trying ...
This paper examines the nature and impact of a leadership coaching program – a key component of a leader development course for the United States Air Force. To assess coaching trai...
In this paper, we provide evidence on mentoring as a way to ease the labour market integration of youth with a migration background. To do so, we designed a survey and collected ...
Life coaching can contribute to goal attainment, quality of life, and psychological well-being enhancement. We explored the capacity of a speech-based conversational agent coach (C...
Conceptual Encounter, a constructivist research methodology, was first introduced by de Rivera in 1981. Its key output is a conceptualisation that contributes to an ‘ever-broadeni...
This qualitative case study sought to explore if the experience of participating in a reciprocal mentoring programme between mixed gender pairs could influence shared understandin...
The UK workplace is witnessing unprecedented change; for the first time witnessing four generations simultaneously active in the workplace. Organisations are increasingly adopting...
There has been a surge of interest in team coaching in recent years, however understanding of the process, based on the first-person perspective of team coaches, is lacking. This ...
This conceptual study explores the effective use of metaphor in coaching and mentoring from literature evidence within the helping professions using a combination of three linked ...
This constructivist grounded theory research explored how coaches facilitate clients to become critical in their coaching environment. Critical thinking has been described as a cor...
Self-help technologies, accessed through smart mobile phones, employing coaching methods are challenging our understanding of the nature of coaching. Research findings suggest tha...
This multi-methods study, informed by the principles of action research, presents an evidencebased model for group coaching for wellbeing. The model is primarily based on psycholog...
The one truth all athletes share is that their playing career will end, often before retirement age. While research into non-linear career journeys and work identity abounds, litt...
This paper explores approaches coaches are undertaking with ‘burnout’ clients and uses constructivist grounded theory to help address a paucity of coaching related literature. Ana...
Childlessness may affect a woman’s well-being and sense of identity, and cause feelings of loss and grief. I found no research on coaching for childless women. Using heuristic inq...
One in six men born in the UK after 1960 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and must make a difficult choice from a wide range of treatment options with possible negative life...
This study explores how cross-cultural coaching supports individuals in their expatriation cycle. Interpretative Phenomenology Analysis was used to explore semi-structured intervie...
In coaching there is a lack of research that focuses specifically on the coaching experiences non-traditional students during their undergraduate studies in the UK. This heuristic...
and practice used in the supervision of undergraduate students at a London music school. It used coded analysis of interviews with tutors, students, and academic administrators to...
This study, set in a small UK Higher Education Institution, investigates how 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students, who facilitate Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) group study sessi...
This exploratory interpretive study provides impactful preliminary evidence on which to base further research into coaching amid challenging circumstances. Thematic analysis of tr...
All coaching and business relationships have an ending. Here we explore the reflections of experienced team coaches at this key stage of the client relationship. This is where coa...
Little is known about coaching in the context of talent management, especially the views of talented employees on its role for their career progression and leadership development....
This paper examines how the field of coaching has grown in organisations and allows them to create a culture based on a coaching approach. The current elements of coaching culture...
The focus of the research was to search for and identify theory and practical constructs to guide the creation of a model for manager-as-coach to assist employees and the manager ...
How to best support new teachers through the beginning years of their careers and thus to increase new teacher retention is an important question. To explore the predictor variabl...
Multimodal care, including Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaching, is considered optimal in ADHD treatment. Still, little research has explored the topic of int...
Executive coaches need to add value to leaders in uncertain organisational contexts. One way would be to support leaders with their personal uncertainty by encouraging adaptive r...
A multi-dimensional perspective emerged from this qualitative investigation of coaching presence pertaining to a coach's focus and behaviors during a coaching session. The qualit...
Coaching is a well-established developmental tool for senior managers and leaders, but almost no research has examined the value of coaching for young, emerging leaders. This pap...
This paper explores the adequacy of existing coaching competency frameworks to address the complexities of coaching academic deans. The unit of analysis of this interpretative and ...
Conceptual Encounter, a constructivist research methodology, was first introduced by de Rivera in 1981. Its key output is a conceptualisation that contributes to an ‘ever-broadeni...
This qualitative case study sought to explore if the experience of participating in a reciprocal mentoring programme between mixed gender pairs could influence shared understandin...
The UK workplace is witnessing unprecedented change; for the first time witnessing four generations simultaneously active in the workplace. Organisations are increasingly adopting...
There has been a surge of interest in team coaching in recent years, however understanding of the process, based on the first-person perspective of team coaches, is lacking. This ...
This conceptual study explores the effective use of metaphor in coaching and mentoring from literature evidence within the helping professions using a combination of three linked ...
This constructivist grounded theory research explored how coaches facilitate clients to become critical in their coaching environment. Critical thinking has been described as a cor...
Self-help technologies, accessed through smart mobile phones, employing coaching methods are challenging our understanding of the nature of coaching. Research findings suggest tha...
This multi-methods study, informed by the principles of action research, presents an evidencebased model for group coaching for wellbeing. The model is primarily based on psycholog...
The one truth all athletes share is that their playing career will end, often before retirement age. While research into non-linear career journeys and work identity abounds, litt...
This paper explores approaches coaches are undertaking with ‘burnout’ clients and uses constructivist grounded theory to help address a paucity of coaching related literature. Ana...
Childlessness may affect a woman’s well-being and sense of identity, and cause feelings of loss and grief. I found no research on coaching for childless women. Using heuristic inqu...
One in six men born in the UK after 1960 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and must make a difficult choice from a wide range of treatment options with possible negative life...
This study explores how cross-cultural coaching supports individuals in their expatriation cycle. Interpretative Phenomenology Analysis was used to explore semi-structured intervie...
In coaching there is a lack of research that focuses specifically on the coaching experiences non-traditional students during their undergraduate studies in the UK. This heuristic...
The case study reported in this paper explored the aspects of coaching and mentoring theory and practice used in the supervision of undergraduate students at a London music school...
This study, set in a small UK Higher Education Institution, investigates how 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students, who facilitate Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) group study sessi...
This exploratory interpretive study provides impactful preliminary evidence on which to base further research into coaching amid challenging circumstances. Thematic analysis of tr...
All coaching and business relationships have an ending. Here we explore the reflections of experienced team coaches at this key stage of the client relationship. This is where coa...
Little is known about coaching in the context of talent management, especially the views of talented employees on its role for their career progression and leadership development....
The terms ‘systemic coaching’ and ‘systemic team coaching’ are becoming increasingly prevalent in the team coaching literature. This emphasis on a systemic perspective is almost ...
Drawing on interviews and authoethnography, this paper argues that chronotopes offer a novel approach to deconstructing the dialogical exchange between coach and coachee. Chronot...
The rise and development of coaching and mentoring in recent decades has led to a plethora of debates around their theoretical and disciplinary roots. Alongside these debates are...
Orientation: Coaching continues to grow in importance as a learning and developmental intervention in organisations. It is therefore important to understand what makes coaching s...
Purpose: More context-specific research regarding the praxis of organisational coaching was needed for increased understanding of this emerging profession. Whilst progress was bei...
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is making in-roads into many spheres of life, including workplace coaching. The introduction of a new class of support technologies (‘e-c...
Background: The executive coaching industry is growing internationally and in South Africa. As is typical of small businesses, many struggle to survive. Factors contributing to sm...
This study examines the impact of peer helper training in Singapore Management University (SMU) from personal interviews with 11 alumni peer helpers. The aims are to find a) new ...
Interest in coaching and mentoring has increased over the past decades. However, confusion about what is meant in practice and in the literature and the lack of sound definitions ...
Researchers, like practitioners, often examine managerial coaching in isolation, focusing on the coach without considering the impact those being coached (i.e., coachees) have on ...
The purpose of this paper is to identify to what extent novice/nascent entrepreneur women perceive that their participation in a mentoring programme contributes positively to thei...
Millennials form a large proportion of the labour market in India. Therefore, organizations are interested in knowing how to motivate them and maximize their performance. Accordin...
This study explored the lived experience of four professionals who engaged in positive psychology coaching following an implicit association test and unconscious bias training. U...
Coaching supervision is increasing in popularity among the coaching field but is far from the accepted standard for all coaches. A growing number of coaching supervision models ar...
The health sciences sector uses work integrated learning to prepare professionals for practice and has done so predominately using a traditional apprenticeship model. Over the pas...
This study seeks to understand the role that courage plays in the development and practice of coaches. Courage is mentioned frequently in the coaching literature, but this research...
In March 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the outbreak of COVID-19 was a pandemic. Many companies were forced to shift to fully remote work following preventativ...
Summary slides of the SIOP 2021 session on I-O Meets Coaching: What's New in Coaching Research
An overview of the job analysis for the development of the ICF team coaching competencies. A presentation in the I-O Meets Coaching: What's New in Coaching Research session of the ...
Recent discussions of organizational performance have emphasized growing complexity and an accelerating pace of change and have called for new models of leadership for managing t...
This paper explores whether coach training or coaching experience leads to better coaching quality and quality control. In two large studies, both coaches (N1 = 2267) and personnel...
Limited published research has examined team coaching function processes. Through an extensive systematic literature review, this research explores team coaching knowledge and prop...
There is on going debate about the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on humanity. The application of AI in the helping professions is an active research area, but no...
This paper explores whether coach training or coaching experience leads to better coaching quality and quality control. In two large studies, both coaches (N1 = 2267) and personn...
The primary purpose of this literature review was to provide a comprehensive background for understanding current knowledge, to highlight the significance of new research and to of...
Every coach is on a journey. The moment they enter a coach training programme or begin coaching, they enter a path of exploration with clients as well as beginning self-exploration...
Psychology at the University of Sydney. Tony was a regular contributor and valued reviewer for the journal. He was also one of the original editorial board members for this journal...
It could be argued that imagination is a necessary counterweight to reason if coaches are to help clients make truly informed decisions. The use of imagination in coaching is unde...
Organisations typically offer counselling to employees who experience stressful life events at home, and coaching to a much lesser extent. Yet my own experience suggests coaching ...
Improvements in life expectancy are enabling more people to reach retirement age. The transition to retirement is complex and, for approximately 30%, prompts a downturn in wellbe...
The transition to parenthood is one of the most joyful, yet stressful life events, however, there is little evidence to support paternity coaching as an intervention. This action ...
There is a dearth of empirical research and conceptual work on the application of coaching within social work. This research used focus groups and semi structured interviews to ex...
Little research exists on coaching in charities. This article explores how coaching might support managers in the charity sector. Using an interpretivist approach, 20 interviews ...
A result of organisational change over the last two decades has been the expectation on managers to coach as part of their roles. However, only the minority of organisations provi...
Although the coaching industry appears to place great value on developing coaching effectiveness, absent from the discourse is coach decision-making. This study explored the cons...
This paper explores how team coaches make sense of working within shared leadership situations. Adopting an interpretive research lens, an under-developed area of research within ...
Evidence suggests organisations’ significant investment in leadership coaching is characterised by two evaluation paradoxes: despite high strategic expectations and substantial bu...
This research study report represents data analyzed from 1,280 coaches and coach supervisor respondents, world-wide, obtained in 2018. Study participants include a broad range of ...
1. Objectives THIS ARTICLE aims to provide insights into the vital role of cultural sensitivity when coaching international teams. The objectives of the article are to: i. sha...
Objective: In light of sparse direct empirical research on adult playfulness in coaching, the objective of this study was to explore playfulness and raise awareness of its presence...
Introduction: The aim of this study was to explore managers’ experiences of participating in executive group coaching in a municipality in Sweden. Methods: A qualitative methodolo...
With the communication and many aspects of social life moving into the online domain, social interaction and communication between individuals in corporate environments are often b...
This article presents a capstone review of this special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, concerning the business application of consulting psycholog...
This article describes lessons learned during my 20 years of experience as an industrial– organizational psychologist building a global consulting firm based in Singapore. It exp...
Between 1987 and today Hogan Assessments grew from a 5-person startup to a substantial business with offices in 54 countries, and we did it with no prior business knowledge or ex...
This article describes my personal experiences as a business owner over the course of the last almost 40 years. To be descriptive I have used a lens that incorporates stages in th...
Little research has examined processes involved when coaching individuals with Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A mixed methods study surveyed 117 self-identified...
The career penalty for professional women who become mothers is well known, while research scrutiny of career decision-making itself appears to have been largely overlooked. This...
This study investigated individuals’ preference structures for workplace coaching providers. Guided by questions about relative weightings of seven important coach(ing) characteri...
The coaching interaction regarding questioning is still under-researched. This study investigates clients’ behavioural responses to coaches’ solution-focused questions (SFQ), thei...
The study aimed to expand the understanding of the experience of people who self-identify their character strengths. The data came from semi-structured interviews held after a coa...
Women remain underrepresented in U.S. university presidential positions. Mentorship is a tool used to support women in gaining access to the position. In this qualitative study, ei...
This study addresses how perceived mentor and protégé values affect negative mentoring, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and perceived career success. Results indicate...
Mentoring is often identified as a flexible practice that supports the socialisation of newcomers. Within international organisations high levels of managerial mobility creates ...
While current studies on the subject have culminated in mixed results, with one study showing better results for internal coaching (Jones et al., 2016; Jones et al., 2018), and a...
A core challenge for coaching is to develop new paradigms that help coaches, and their clients, navigate today’s complex, interconnected and rapidly changing world. This paper ex...
Contextual coaching is a process that emphasizes the importance of an organization’s environment or context on leadership development work. It recognizes that certain attributes ...
How can teams better produce complex and creative knowledge work in today’s competitive and fast-moving business environment? How can team coaches and organizational design pract...
Leader development requires learning new ways of behaving, which takes sustained practice over time, yet organizations continue to focus their efforts in traditional classroom st...
This paper recommends that coaches consider equipping clients with a visual image to refer to between sessions. This recommendation is based on the authors’ personal experience a...
Organizations operate in times of unprecedented uncertainty, complexity and change. To meet these challenges, they are seeking out new and efficient ways of effecting change at t...
Systems coaching generally refers to coaching assorted groups of people, whether they entail corporate teams or families. However, systems are also present within individuals. Su...
Oades, L.G., Siokou, C.L. & Slemp, G.R. (2019). Coaching and Mentoring Research: A Practical Guide. London: Sage.
Stout-Rostron, S. (2019). Transformational Coaching to Lead Culturally Diverse Teams. London: Routledge.
Turner, T., Lucas, M. & Whitaker, C. (2018). Peer Supervision in Coaching and Mentoring. A Versatile Guide for Reflective Practice. London: Routledge.
Group coaching may facilitate individual learning and change over time through the social processes of learning vicariously and learning through feedback. While anecdotal evidenc...
The term ‘systemic coaching’ is now widely used, usually to articulate the value for the coach of looking beyond the immediacy of the one-to-one coaching relationship. It is also...
The literature on reflection, awareness, and self-regulation provides theoretical and empirical fruit for understanding self-processing mechanisms that enhance learning, growth, a...
This study investigates lived experiences of first-time coaching clients. Three clients of business coaching shared how they experienced their coachee role. Data was collected via...
Formative feedback is likely to improve performance, which has encouraged executive coaches to seek accreditation and supervision. However, many coaches do not consider their cli...
Modelling in mentoring has been widely identified but the underlying mimetic process of how mentor qualities are reproduced in mentees is rarely explained. This article describes ...
My instinct as practitioner, a project manager and a coach, originated the idea of using coaching practice to develop project managers’ soft skills: an empirical, pragmatic sugges...
Relationship conflict at work is common and can have substantial negative effects for individual wellbeing and organisational productivity. A literature review identified a lack o...
This qualitative study explored managerial coaching to facilitate employee development within the Information Technology Department of a large UK Higher Education Institution. Its ...
Self-awareness is critical for leadership success. It not only builds and strengthens leadership skills, it also supports leaders’ creativity and innovation and helps increase the...
Most of us will be living and working longer, but what if we want to do something very different during the later years of our working life? Research suggests that workers face uni...
There have been numerous studies which demonstrate the importance of the coaching relationship and its relevance in ensuring the successful outcome of the coaching process. Howev...
There is little research available that describes or gives a picture of what happens in a coaching session. This paper provides a view of the events containing insight within coac...
This paper aims to provide insight into the methods being used by external team coaches in the workplace, the need for which is highlighted by the sparsity of team coaching resear...
This study explored the under-researched area of the effect of coaching on clients’ spoken and internal language, the link to individual change, as well as the effect of coach lang...
This article presents qualitative findings from a study of seven group coaching supervisors and 57 coaches participating in those groups. The purpose of the research was to further...
Integration of humanitarian migrants into the labour market is crucial for the long-term success of EU Member States. Previous research suggests that mentoring may be a viable labo...
Despite numerous labour market interventions to address the large unemployment gap, migrants struggle to find work in their host societies. In an effort to address this, an altern...
Coaching for individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), an emerging coaching subspecialty, has demonstrated efficacy both as a stand alone behavioral suppor...
This multiple case study of life coaching uses an embedded mixed method design to examine the question: How does an evidence based coaching approach, including the use of the PER...
This paper reports on a heuristic study with women in academia. Nine women collaborated as co-researchers to explore coaching women towards authenticity within higher education. T...
Studies of student coaching have shown benefits to both students and coaches, yet little is known about the experiences of coaches as they prepare to coach. This study sought to ...
Within the New Zealand Education sector, the Specialist Classroom Teacher Position is a mentoring position focusing on developing novice teachers. Mentoring occurs in pairs that a...
The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between mentoring and career satisfaction among emerging nurse scholars currently pursuing, or who have acquired a doctor...
This mixed methods, 8-month pilot study investigated graduate students’ (n = 11) experiences in Breaking Grad, a peer coaching program derived from mentorship, motivational inter...
World-wide, coaching has grown significantly in the last 20 years, warranting research into all aspect of coaching. In 2016, the European Coaching and Mentoring Project was underta...
This is an extension of the "Referring a Client to Therapy: A Set of Guidelines". Please see that document for more details on indicators and the referral process.
This guide is a resource for coaches to understand when and how to refer a client to a mental health or other helping professional when the client’s needs are outside a coach’s c...
The challenges of entrepreneurship make learning integral to the entrepreneurial process. However, many entrepreneurs work in relative isolation and lack opportunities to engage wi...
Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a communication strategy to facilitate behaviour change yet MI research in sport is scant. This study investigated awareness and use of MI by coac...
Executive coaching is a multidisciplinary concept and intervention that companies acquire in order to help the constant development of their employees as well as, to overcome probl...
A gap exists between positive psychology coaching (PPC) theory and practice because PPC lacks rigorous measurement, evidence-based protocols and standard processes. This quasiexper...
This report is an update on the state of academic research in coaching and clinical supervision for 2018. We examined a total of six academic research articles on coaching supervis...
This report is an update on the state of coaching supervision for 2017. For a comparison to last year’s report, please see Tkach and DiGirolamo (2017). We examined a total of 16 ac...
Research on video-mediated coaching is sparse, with literature on video-mediated communication in general and different aspects of technology-assisted coaching existing. Therefor...
While the criticality of a strong coach-client relationship has received significant attention, this study represents one of the few investigations of coach behaviours that impac...
The purpose of this study was to identify the benefits of a systematic mentorship programme using a recreational agency as the case study. Demographic information was used to und...
Peer mentoring is commonly used for didactical and learning purposes. In this study we examine peer group mentoring in the university context. The aim is to promote understanding...
A promotion to a more senior role brings an exciting yet challenging period in a leader's career. Using an interpretative phenomenological methodology, this study explores the expe...
This report provides an overview of the main findings from the 2017 European Coaching and Mentoring Research Project, undertaken by Jonathan Passmore and Hazel Brown, in partnershi...
ICF defines the 3rd core competency (Establishing Trust and Intimacy) as the “ability to create a safe, supportive environment that produces ongoing mutual respect and trust.” Th...
Life coaching is a professional practice which aims to help people flourish in life, by living according to their strengths, striving to reach goals, and achieve well-being in all ...
According to many philosophers and psychologists, we are each not one, but many. The origins of multiplicity theories are briefly outlined before several contemporary theories are ...
Metaphor Magic draws from symbolic modeling, systems theory, sandplay therapy, and Clean Language, and uses symbolic metaphors to support clients in coaching and coaching supervisi...
The purpose of this academic-year-long pilot study was to explore senior Kinesiology students’ (i.e., ‘mentors’; N = 30) experiences in an undergraduate course focused on building ...
This study explores the impact of coaching doctoral students at a university in London. A mixed methods approach was taken to identify themes which emerged from coaching conversati...
Cultural shifts have eroded the hierarchical structure responsible for vertically transmitting guidance to youth, making the development of secure parent-child attachment relations...
This article is a summary of a research assignment investigating the Business Coaching Processes (BCPs) that support the implementation of Business Improvement Projects (BIPs) in o...
A cross sectional convenience sample of 195 MBA students answered questions which explored the impacts of managerial coaching on work engagement. Measures of organisational learnin...
This case study explores the value of high potential coaching as part of a leadership development programme. As empirical and participant-based research for coaching (effectiveness...
This study investigates the lived experiences of internal coaches. In-depth interviews were conducted with four practising internal coaches in a large UK Higher Education Instituti...
Revenue spent on coaching globally is significant, yet data is lacking on the specific leadership behaviours it develops. This study focuses on the debate about coaching efficacy, ...
Research into workplace-training suggests actions taken by managers, such as discussing applying the training, can significantly impact the effectiveness of training. However, litt...
Coaching supervision is a developing profession, yet little is known about the development of supervisors after their training. This study aimed to add to the empirical literature ...
Concerted efforts have been made to define and distinguish coaching as an emerging discipline and profession to develop confidence in the potentiality of coaching. Multiple perspec...
Presence is considered by the practitioner community to be a key factor in coaching effectiveness and is recognised as an important coaching competence. Yet to date, there has been...
Trust between mentees and mentors is important. This article considers how trust can be generated in a formal scheme in a third-sector organisation, the NCT. Interviews and documen...
Based on definitions of coaching, coaches support their clients with their self-determination as well as their self-congruent, self-valued goals; in other words and with regard to ...
A capability mind set which includes reflexivity enhances the competency frameworks promoted by the professional associations with their attention to self-awareness, self-insight a...
This paper proposes that it is possible for a manager to effectively coach their team, regardless of the culture that they are operating within. The piece of qualitative research u...
This study used the interpretative phenomenological analysis approach to explore how five full time Master of Business Administration (FTMBA) students experienced coaching during t...
Previous researchers showed manager coaches face challenges setting up effective employee coaching relationships with their direct reports. Previous quantitative studies about the ...
This paper reports coaches’ experiences of supporting clients undergoing transformational change. Qualitative research was carried out using semi-structured interviews with six co...
The current study explored the outcomes of a 10 week coaching program designed to facilitate volitional personality change. It also explored the impact of targeting specific person...
In a changing world of work with high youth unemployment rates, an ageing society and flexible work force, practitioners in Public Employment Services need to cope with continually...
Confronted by change, people may be afraid to explore and digest their current circumstance, thus missing opportunities. Individuals, coaches, supervisors, and facilitators can ben...
This paper compares the measurements of organisational outcomes from executive and leadership coaching based on existing studies and research that has been conducted throughout the...
This paper examines ethical dilemmas and tricky decision-making among coaching supervisors internationally. Supervisors were selected for the first study in this wider project due ...
Midlife women currently have the highest ever presence in the workplace with many juggling work with demanding home lives. Women are reporting increased dissatisfaction with their ...
Family Life Coaching (FLC) is an emerging approach to serving families that blends family science and coaching psychology. While family life coaching is growing, there is limited r...
Family Life Coaching (FLC) is an emerging approach to serving families that blends family science and coaching psychology. While family life coaching is growing, there is limited r...
Motivational Interviewing-via-Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) was investigated as a possible behaviour intervention for adolescents who experience stressors in their lives. T...
This study examined learning for matched pairs of mentors and protégés who participated in a formal workplace mentoring program in the United States. The use of matched pairs enabl...
One hundred and forty-six protégés with a mentor in their profession responded to a survey exploring how value similarity affects mentoring success (career support, psychosocial su...
The current understanding of sponsoring as an impactful tool for the career advancement of women is based on predominantly US based research. There is a lack of insight into the pe...
In this article, the author outlines the role of coach contracting in Hewlett Packard (HP), a global technology organization. Specifically, critical factors are outlined that have ...
Can coaching in another language provide an opportunity for the coach's mastery? Can it be a vehicle for the coachee's growth? Usually, when we talk about coaching in another langu...
PURPOSE: Throughout the past sixteen years as an executive leadership coach working with young talent and the executives that manage them, I have seen a disconnect. That disconnect...
This research project was undertaken as a response to the compelling need for coaching to firmly establish itself as a profession of the highest standing. Supervision has been a wa...
In this study, we attempted to validate Noe’s (1988) Mentoring Functions Scale on a sample of 363 managerial employees working in public and private sector organisations in North I...
The Mentoring for Migrants Program aims to increase migrants’ chances in the Austrian labour market. Results of the online questionnaire (N=177) showed that the program was evaluat...
This study examines whether the strategies of mentoring and feedback enhanced the cognitive task performance of students in a university faculty. The sex of the respondents was a s...
This pilot study investigated whether combining Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) and kickboxing would progress the development of mental toughness compared to kickboxing alone. T...
The demand on techniques, approaches and processes that have a positive impact on courage, fear and anxiety is very high in general population. The evidence-based and theoretical l...
This study aimed to determine the value of the Coaching and Mentoring (C&M) Programme within a large National Health Service (NHS) system (‘Trust’) in London, England. A case study...
The term managerial coaching is often used to describe the leader’s role in developing people, but views differ as to the optimal process by which this is achieved. Although manage...
This study explored the perceptions of an employee’s manager as coach behaviour and the relationship to their perceived work engagement. The Measurement Model of Coaching Skills (M...
Methodology and research supporting coaching’s effectiveness has not kept up with its growth and demand. The current literature on coaching is lacking sufficient empirical rigour a...
This article presents qualitative findings from a pilot group coaching program that was conducted within a large Australian public healthcare organisation. Using Nueman’s (2000) th...
Literature in the field of leadership development shows that leaders are sometimes not aware of their character strengths and thus do not use them to their advantage. Even a small ...
This article, based upon a grounded theory study of coaches undertaking peer group supervision (PGS), examines how PGS might be structured by examining the modus operandi and modus...
This paper explores the value of coaching in organisations. Assessing the impact of coaching through typical effectiveness measures may identify measurable outcomes, but risks miss...
The coaching/counselling boundary is much talked about and yet there has been little research into how novice coaches identify the boundary in practice. This article explores how n...
This case study explores the contribution of coaching in addressing the adaptive challenges of senior leadership transitions from the perspective of leaders who have recently trans...
This article presents findings from an action research study into how maternity-return coaching can complement organisational maternity benefits in order to facilitate career re-en...
Executive coaching is increasingly being used to develop leaders in organisations and this study explores how a coaching intervention has been used to develop female leaders in a g...
In today’s global economy, executive coaches might increasingly work with clients from other countries. This article asks whether it is important for effective coaching to pay atte...
This article reports on an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis study that provides a description of the experiences of a sample of college students who were mentored by police o...
This paper explores the perceived challenges an organisation may face when planning to introduce internal coaching into a fast-paced, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VU...
Coaching supervision is an emerging profession in need of developing its knowledge base. However, there is a lack of understanding of the supervision process from the coaching supe...
This document contains a review of literature to begin researching the topic of the experiences that improve the confidence of professional women in the workplace. The topic addres...
Although executive coaching is widely used, international coaching studies are scarce. The aim of this dissertation, which consists of three articles, is to increase understanding...
This qualitative exploratory study examines how coaches experience the flow state, as defined by flow research pioneer Csikszentmihalyi. It further looks at the relationship betwee...
The process of International Coach Federation (ICF) coach credentialing and accreditation of coach training programs revolves around the individual coach, or the coach training o...
The present study is a pioneer quantitative study aims at studying the effect of REN Coaching model (which emphasizes balanced growth in, not only 'knowledge and skills: but also...
Our poster presentation examines the use of the term coaching as it is found in a purposeful sampling of health-related literature. It has been our experience that the term coach...
The objective of this study was to draw from mentor feedback and reflections and examine the practices of mentors successful in mentoring immigrant newcomers. The paper reports on ...
This qualitative exploratory case study investigated the perceived role of mentoring in assisting African American males achieve leadership positions. Twenty African American male ...
This study explored mentoring relationships in sport from the perspective of the protégé. The project was guided by contemporary mentoring theories as framed by Kram's Mentor Rol...
Training, mentoring, and coaching are all tools used to manage and enhance the performance of the sales force. However, little is known about the interplay between these learning t...
This study explores, through stories, how coaching supports the development of expatriates’ career capital; it is the first empirical investigation in this area. A narrative analys...
Team coaching in organisations is becoming increasingly commonplace, but there remains a lack of clarity as to what team coaching is and what makes it effective. Thirty-six team co...
This paper presents the findings from the study of a unique coaching situation. Coachees currently accessing mental health services and members of Converge (see below) were paired ...
This research focused on the coaching practices of internal coaches in a multimedia organisation. Survey questions were sent to 135 clients who had completed the ‘Coaching Programm...
Vague definitional descriptors of the Coaching Alliance Common Factor measurement threaten construct validity in coaching research. Further, differing coach and client perceptions ...
In this paper, we examine coaching’s innovativeness through a comparison of its approaches and methods with those of more established helping professions. Using extant literature, ...
Coaching supervision is a relatively recent development, but already competency frameworks and content and process models exist. What does not yet exist is an articulation of coach...
This article draws on the researcher’s collective research and experience in using peer coaching as a strategy to improve professional and performance learning over the past 20+ ye...
The question for this research was: Does executive coaching impact the success of franchisees? Six volunteer franchisees participated in 3-month coaching engagements, where differe...
The last 20 years has seen a proliferation in the practice of executive coaching despite the limited empirical research about its efficacy. This research focused on ethical issues ...
Coaching as a leadership style has been discussed a lot in the recent years in corporations, in HR departments, and in executive training rooms. Since change is inescapable, leader...
There has been much research to determine the most important elements in coaching engagements. This research has resulted in competencies that guide coach training programs and inf...
The evaluation of the exact impact of executive coaching on both individuals and organisations is lagging behind. This has been demonstrated by the few empirical studies which link...
The goal of this phenomenological study was to investigate and describe, from the Chief Executive Officer’s (CEO’s) perspective, the relationship between CEOs and their trusted adv...
Executive coaching is a timely response to the postmodern challenges that face contemporary organizations. Executive coaching is also a human service field that holds great promise...
In this article, Lee Salmon explores the evolution of executive coaching in the U.S. federal government over the past two decades and discusses factors leading to its acceptance as...
"We are multi-dimensional energy systems and we perform best when we have a clearly defined mission that really matters (spiritual), when we are laser focused on the mission (menta...
The International Consortium for Coaching in Organizations (ICCO) is established to address the critical needs of professionals and those organizations throughout the world that ut...
One purpose of the present study was to develop and test the factor structure of a multidimensional and hierarchical instrument for measuring coaches’ competence called the Coach C...
The authors of this article propose a new way of looking at coaching and organizational change. While coaching and change are not new, high-impact coaching is a way of looking at t...
This article discusses an approach for leadership development and change management that is based on commitment to the core values and mission of our business at New York Life. Sev...
Coaching invites resistance – and that’s a good thing. But, it’s only a good thing if the coach understands why resistance occurs and how to work effectively with it. Otherwise, th...
When two or more groups that must work together perceive one another as having agendas opposed to their own cares and priorities, an environment composed of distrust, contention, a...
The “new normal” of rapid, unceasing change requires corporate executives to express a new level of resilience. Executive coaches are called upon help leaders to thrive in chaos, b...
This article explores how executive and team Shadow Coaching® supported clients in transforming an organization to deal with two overlapping events; a global pandemic and 2010 Olym...
We are at a challenging point in the history of humanity’s existence on Spaceship Earth. To survive we have hard choices to make that will require complex systemic change. The auth...
This article is an overview of how practitioners are using a coaching approach, including cutting-edge coaching methodologies, to address systemic and cultural change in business, ...
Whether you use the term “coach” as a noun or a verb, even a small coaching initiative providing a positive impact on a professional health care system is a good thing. Coaching pr...
Is your organization working with a professional whose behavior and perceptions are negatively impacting the team? Do you have multiple professional cultures trying to collaborate ...
Health care professionals are highly trained in the art and science of diagnosis, prescription, and treatment for patients, typically based on the medical model. For many years we ...
Banner Health uses leadership coaching as a way to develop our managers, directors, and senior leaders. This article offers several highlights of the programs it has implemented an...
In this article, the author proposes four foundational elements in developing health care leaders. These strategies are critical to supporting the transformation of leadership way-...
The health care industry in the United States is highly complex, structurally and historically. The layered hierarchy of caregivers and regulations that affect direct care adds com...
Even with the passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a considerable amount of confusion still remains about the future landscape of health care in the US. One fact is certain ...
Although physicians as a group1 enjoy a longer lifespan than individuals from many other professions, they experience a higher incidence of preventable deaths such as suicide, acci...
This article investigates the impact of a one year executive coaching experiment on intrapersonal causal attribution. The results showed that executive coaching had significant eff...
In this provocative and reflective column, the author offers a perspective that challenges some of our “common sense” understandings of the larger context in which coaching in orga...
Leaders and managers have been using coaching as one style of interacting with subordinates for years. It continues to be seen as an effective technique in creating both a healthy ...
Throughout the Western world, we are now living in a time of turmoil and economic uncertainty, even chaos. Many contemporary economists and political analysts speak and write about...
Abrasive leaders rub their coworkers the wrong way. Their words and actions create interpersonal friction—friction that grates on subordinates, peers, and even superiors, eroding e...
The authors of this article are organizational consultants. Rothaizer and Hill work as organizational effectiveness consultants, leadership development specialists and executive co...
It is an honor to interview Edith (Edie) Seashore. Whether one considers coaching a subset of organizational development (OD) or its own distinct professional activity, Edie has be...
For those of you in the know, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is a force to be reckoned with. As Chair of Nestlé, the biggest Food and Beverage company in the world with over 285,000 employ...
We have all been part of a team. Some of us have been part of a high impact team while some of us have been on a low impact team-- one that couldn’t quite get off the ground. Do yo...
This particular Muse is interesting to me as I’ve had the opportunity to coach in financial institutions around the world, even having the rare occasion to coach a central banker i...
In this article Davis explores the impact of economic meltdown on those who are leading financial institutions. What are the implications for those who are coaching finance leader?...
Very personal observations of how coaching works in financial institutions are expanded to include principles of people development that apply, in the author’s perception, both in ...
Economic decisions are not only rational. They are emotional and biological as well. Millions of years of evolution and decades of conditioning have hard-wired habitual ways of rel...
In this article the author describes how executive coaching supported leaders in several U.S. government financial institutions from 2005 to the present. Individual and organizatio...
In this interview with a former international banker, now global executive coach, Lazar asks first how the financial sector is distinct from other endeavors. In looking at the atti...
The power and interconnectedness of global financial institutions and the impacts they have on the economy more broadly compel us as coaches and consultants to have some understand...
The author, who has spent the last ten years coaching senior executives in the financial services area, shares insights on what it was like to observe firsthand how leaders reacted...
Women executives are aligning their work and home lives with their values in substantial numbers. Interviews with women executives found that they fell into four categories based o...
In this Muse, the author points to the unconscious processes and priorities (of the coach) as influencing the work that gets done, whether or not this is recognized and acknowledge...
In this excerpt from an upcoming book that updates a widely known and used model of interpersonal relationships (the “Johari Window”) the author focuses on the fourth quadrant of t...
Rothaizer and Hill have long proposed that masterful organizational consultants must integrate coaching into their work and that masterful organizational coaches must integrate con...
The authors offer two case studies that illustrate the powerful role played by deeply-embedded societal values that are often religions in origin. Foley and Bergquist have used the...
The author offers his commentary on Jack Wood’s interview. The role of personal work, time for unconscious processes to unfold, and hope are important aspects for coaches to accoun...
The author offers his commentary on Jack Wood’s interview. The role of personal work, time for unconscious processes to unfold, and hope are important aspects for coaches to accoun...
The author offers her perspective on the Jack Wood interview. She uses a classic story, self-disclosure and a personal anecdote to illustrate the unconscious processes that are alw...
Jack Wood is a distinguished professor, therapist, consultant and coach, living in Switzerland and working throughout the world. In this interview with Bergquist and Sanson, Wood e...
The article brings an abridged version of the first coaching research project conducted in Croatia in 2008. The purpose of the research was to explore and gather more reliable info...
The future of coaching will be shaped by the interrelated evolution of 21st century global collaborations, their enabling technologies, and the ability of coaches to adapt their se...
Excellence in coaching depends on a firm understanding of various assessment strategies combined with feedback that is cogent, valid and straightforward. This article addresses som...
The profile of executive coaching clients is changing as organizations are reshaped by shifting demographics, economies are redefined by globalization, and world powers are realign...
This article focuses on organizations in distress and the various approaches to leadership and communication that are commonly deployed. Topics such as the impacts of distress on p...
Coaching organizational leaders tends to focus on tackling challenges through traditional problem solving methods. Polarity Management is a practice that differentiates a problem t...
We can see organizations newly as shaped by generative acts, based on the perspective that language is generative, not just descriptive. Speaking and listening produce action and c...
Leaders and their coaches often use stories and images to communicate important messages. While many are aware that metaphors can be powerful, the precise reasons for their effecti...
This article outlines methods for designing and executing effective communications plans within global enterprises. Based on experiences in a professional services environment, the...
This paper has two objectives. On the one had, it advances the practice of organizational coaching through the methodology developed and used by the Center for Executive Coaching i...
The articles in this issue trace some of the central threads and players that have shaped coaching. This closing article offers a number of provocative reflections on the contribut...
Coaching in general and organizational coaching in particular face two related challenges. First, in order to develop beyond a temporary fad or a technique that is absorbed by othe...
This paper explores the impact of philosophical thinking on coaching practice. In particular it looks at the epistemology of Socrates (via the writing of Plato), Locke, Hume, Kant,...
Building on a hypothetical case study offered in a previous article in this issue of IJCO, Bergquist suggests ways in which the field of coaching—and the coaching relationship esta...
This article about two pioneers in the field of organizational coaching — Thomas Leonard and Laura Whitworth — is based on the author’s interviews with more than 170 senior practit...
Coaching emerged during the postmodern period of the late twentieth century, born of a rapidly changing socioeconomic environment and nourished by the root disciplines of psycholog...
In this article, William Bergquist makes use of a hypothetical case study to identify and analyze the central dilemmas and opportunities that have faced the field of professional c...
In this study, the authors investigated the effects of a business coaching program on important performance psychological variables. One hundred and twenty seven executives and mid...
The practise of coaching is poised to make a leap to fully emerge as a ‘pioneering profession’ and to lead self and other into a new paradigm. To achieve this will require a jump i...
Flexibility and self-direction characterize the unique approach to strategic executive coaching undertaken by Deere & Company, one of the world’s leading manufacturers. Here, the a...
This article examines the differences, similarities and cultural nuances of the coaching vendor-selection process for U.S.- based and European-based multinationals. Drawing from a ...
In this article, Fielder and Starr address the nature of the coaching contract for external coaches offering organizational and executive coaching to individual clients. They begin...
Every coaching conversation and engagement includes a contract or agreement involving at minimum a coach and client. It may also include additional stakeholders, like peers, direct...
Organizations today are concerned about the impending shortage of leadership talent as a result of the looming baby boomer generation’s exodus from the workforce with fewer “GenXer...
Sandy Smith explores the impact of generational differences on the coaching process, offering insight into the challenges and developmental opportunities for the coach. In this pap...
In this article the authors describe their experience in the establishment of a culture of development at the TaylorMade-Adidas Golf Company through the implementation of professio...
The authors of this article suggest that our contemporary challenge is dealing with the deep uncertainty of our times, while inspiring others to move toward and achieve desired goa...
In this article the author explores the role that can be played by coaches for those organizational leaders in their 50’s who are making career decisions, having walked away from p...
The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara is among a small cadre of coach training and learning organizations in North America emerging in the late 80’s and early 90’s, each with roots...
It is becoming more and more difficult to connect the chapters of our lives to one another—from childhood, through the adult years, to elderhood. Likewise, it is more difficult tha...
This article aims to clarify executive coaching by describing the coaching process through an examination of relevant theory. Establishing a relationship based on mutuality between...
Numerous books and articles are being published on the topic of coaching. These writings are based on practical experiences of coaches, research or studies conducted by individuals...
This article draws upon a hybrid conception of ‘power’ stemming from the French philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, and translates it into an understanding of how to c...
Twenty five hundred years of western philosophical thought is being challenged by emerging discoveries in the cognitive sciences. This article will focus on the three major discove...
This article uses a case study concerning the director of communications of a large, services corporation in crisis to illustrate a coaching approach that focuses on overcoming the...
Weaving examination of a successful governmental coaching engagement and the musings of the author’s experience as coach, this article ultimately captures and examines some of the ...
The co-authors of this article have all been involved in a major organizational coaching program in a Canadian territorial government. Governments throughout the world typically fa...
As a Shadow Coach™, Donna Karlin helps her government clients identify not only the source of a problem but the ‘core dynamic’ underneath the source, knowing there is yet another l...
Effective leadership development programs involve more than classroom lectures and discussion. This article describes the elements within an executive leadership development progra...
The author shares her experiences and insights from over a decade of coaching government leaders. Working with senior managers, directors, and political appointees, she has identif...
Those who have the joy and privilege of knowing and working with Susana Isaacson will often describe her as a “force of nature.” Her level of commitment to the welfare of the men a...
This is the fifth in a series of dialogues between senior, experienced organizational coaches. In this instance, the dialogue is international in scope and focuses on something tha...
The skills of encouragement are essential to being an effective coach. The authors begin with an overview to encouragement theory. In addition to defining and illustrating encourag...
Metaphor procedures developed by Richard Kopp (1995) are applied to effect a paradigm shift to what is referred to as a ‘quantum worldview’. the metaphor of the author’s grandmothe...
Appreciative inquiry has arrived! This term and the underlying concepts and attitudes associated with this term are flourishing in the fields of organizational development and orga...
This article identifies how deep change in organizations, catalyzed by Appreciative Inquiry, and facilitated by coaching, can be the consequence of simultaneous, synergistic Transf...
A minor sport’s injury turned into a worsening condition that could not be explained nor cured for over one year. The pain was such that it prevented me from sitting or standing up...
In this article, the author moves to “the heart of the matter” regarding the release of human capital. Bergquist proposes a fundamental tenet regarding the appreciation of human ca...
The authors describe a successful intervention to shepherd a young company through its early stages of development. Equipped with an appreciation for the systemic issues that confr...
Coaching can take a strategic and more effective position when it is tied to an organization’s talent management strategy. The author of this article illustrates one way to positio...
In this article, Moye and Allen discuss the importance of, and practice of, developing an individual’s capacity to lead at the early career stage by instilling a learning mindset. ...
This article addresses two trends in the field of coaching and the need in organizations to think more systemically about coaching as an overall human capital strategy. The formati...
In this article, the author describes how old habits die hard, keeping both individuals and organizations stuck in the past, habitually keeping to old patterns. This Working Strate...
When the topic of the return on investment (“ROI”) of coaching comes up among coaching professionals, there is often skepticism about its ultimate usefulness. This may be rooted in...
This article introduces a theoretical foundation to coaching based on brain function. It highlights some of the current findings about the neuroscience of attention, reflection, in...
Coaching in the organizational context is a magnified and multifaceted version of one-to-one coaching, with additional twists due to the varied individual and group relationships t...
Since many executives today confuse ethics (authentic leadership steeped in morals, values, and meaning) with compliance (Sarbanes-Oxley) or risk management (ethics training rather...
After reviewing typical dilemmas executive coaches face to identify the ROI for their services, O’Neill provides a practical plan for integrating ROI analysis into the coaching rel...
This article is based on a conversation that took place between Mary Beth O’Neill and Bill Bergquist in Seattle Washington during September 2004. Both O’Neill and Bergquist had par...
This article is an abridged version of a joint interview executed in November of 2004 between senior executive coaches Val Williams and Joan Wright. The interview resulted from a c...
In launching this journal the editorial board envisioned that the journal would provide a forum for “reflection and analysis…by those leaders of this emerging field who recognize c...
Coaching in organizations often focuses on either how to address issues effectively or how to perform well in a situation, given a decision to move forward and a strategy to meet s...
The Editorial Board of IJCO has chosen to operate in a collaborative mode with substantial communication occurring via e-mail. As a result, its deliberations are extended and fully...
Diversity leadership requires a commitment to excellence, inclusion and integrity. Lee asserts that in order to manage system-wide diversity with integrity, leaders must also learn...
In this article, Curnow explores the impact of cultural differences on coaching. Specifically, she examines distinctions in working with international and domestic cultural differe...
In a high performance culture, where achievement is supported, recognized and rewarded, assigning a coach to an exceptional contributor is not unusual. What may be unusual is the p...
In this article, Phillippe Rosinski promotes global coaching as a broad and inclusive form of coaching, necessary for enabling sustainable and global success. Global coaches strive...
Executives who work in various cultures bring a multitude of cultural backgrounds, identities, and orientations with them. they are called in to new situations because of their ski...
This is the fourth in a series of IJCO dialogues among senior organizational coaches. Meryl Moritz and Klaus Zepuntke are executive coaches who met at the executive Coaching summit...
An oxymoron is defined as “a figure of speech that uses seeming contradictions ‘cruel kindness’ or ‘to make haste slowly,’” (Webster’s, 1991, p. 968). Too often “business integrity...
The present study concerns the evaluation of the LeadershipCircle (LC) coaching program designed for leadership development, combining individual and group coaching, interactive le...
In this article, the authors describe a novel approach to coaching and leadership development that uses a holistic model, Integral Intelligence™, to generate significant expansion ...
Over the past twenty years, one of us [Bill] has recognized the need for cultural analyses of organizations from the perspective of those who lead and work in these organizations. ...
When the topic of the return on investment (“ROI”) of coaching comes up among coaching professionals, there is often skepticism about its ultimate usefulness. this may be rooted in...
The legend of King Arthur provides an excellent perceptual lens for viewing the untapped performance potential of present-day coaching clients. Arthur rose to greatness with the he...
4 Four energy patterns, based in the physiology of movement, but also known to correlate with temperament, are the basis of a powerful assessment and model to help your clients und...
Using research in cognitive development and decision theory, this article presents a new model of decision making that will help you understand both your own processes and why thos...
This article introduces a theoretical foundation to coaching based on brain function. it highlights some of the current findings about the neuroscience of attention, insight, refle...
Organizational coaching and coaching in general draw on a number of different fields and academic disciplines. There is another field of study that integrates several disciplines. ...
Here is a fictitious scenario which is so typical in today’s workplaces that it verges on the archetypal: You are invited to coach a team of three executives, who “can’t get along ...
When it comes to understanding why people do what they do, we cannot ignore the biological reasons for behavior. leaders need to take into consideration physiological responses bot...
The author has completed courses at four accredited coaching schools, including the first foundational course for each of them. She indicates in this brief addendum to the descript...
Founded in 1998 and accredited by International Coach Federation since 2002, the Professional Coach Certificate Program of Adler School of Professional Coaching assumes a dynamic t...
Organizational boundaries as we knew them in the 20th Century are becoming sources of “troubling ambiguity.”1 Boundaries that once steadfastly defined economies, societies, industr...
Brian Pelchat describes complex social, leadership, intercultural and political challenges in the wider context of the natural environmental imperatives. He is situated as the head...
Aboriginal people in Canada have been negotiating modern land claims agreements with provincial and territorial governments for over thirty years. Historically, differences in valu...
Following is an interview conducted by William Bergquist, Co-Executive Editor of IJC,O with Gary Quehl, a leader, coach and consultant, who has accumulated many years of experience...
This article is based on a recorded conversation occurring between these three senior executives coaches in Phoenix, Arizona on August 27, 2004. All three participated on a panel o...
Many UK corporate purchasers perceive coaching as a widely accepted method for the development of executives’ talents in support of corporate objectives. There is, however, perceiv...
Coaching is a profession that is rapidly becoming popular among both organizations and practitioners, yet there is little empirical evidence linking the results to the process. Thi...
When you sit back and think about your business, what are the questions that you wrangle with the most? Are they questions of expanding your business, of how to stay competitive in...
This article presents commentary delivered during a panel discussion conducted as a part of the ICF 9th Annual Conference in Quebec City on November 5, 2005. The discussion consist...
To derive the full value from 360° workplace feedback, corporations must possess a clear understanding of this tool, as well as the problems it can and cannot solve. This article d...
At first glance, the thought of measuring the ROI in coaching appears to be a novel idea or an impossible mission. Both views are inaccurate. With increased use of executive coachi...
After reviewing typical dilemmas executive coaches face to identify the ROI for their services, I provide a practical plan for integrating ROI analysis into the coaching relationsh...
This article is a case study that uses an action research model to report on a multi-dimensional six-year organizational case study involving a large Middle-Eastern energy company....
As coaching’s popularity has risen as a tool in executive and organizational development, questions of effectiveness and potential outcomes arise. Through research investigating co...
This article is based on a conversation that took place between Mary Beth O’Neill and Bill Bergquist in Seattle, Washington during September 2004. Both O’Neill and Bergquist had pa...
This article is based on an interview that occurred early in 2005, between Christine McDougall and the interviewer, Cherie Kellahan. Cherie is one of Christine’s clients and was th...
The author suggests that some of the most rewarding coaching experiences she has ever experienced occurred during the past eleven years as a practice management consultant and busi...
This case study involves the transition of a small, closely held two-person partnership into a family business and then back to a closely held entity. The company with which the au...
Based on their own work with entrepreneurs, particularly in closely held enterprises, Bergquist and Boland have come to an important conclusion: organizational coaches can play an ...
The closely held organisation is defined in its simplest form as one where the owner-manager role is vested in the same person or persons. This means that it is often difficult to ...
Coaching is a commitment to identifying plans and strategies designed to achieve specific goals, whether the one being coached is a football team, a corporate executive or a small ...
Within each of us there are basic forces that not only form who we are, but also drive us in powerful ways to be who we are. For some, there is ease in naming and identifying those...
The Enneagram is becoming very popular. Those who use the Enneagram as a training, counseling, or consulting tool are finding that it can be of great value with regard to the insig...
This article is an abridged version of a joint interview executed in November of 2004 between senior executive coaches Val Williams and Joan Wright. The interview resulted from a c...
Sanctuary is that place or time or situation (which is created for us, or which we create for ourselves), in which we can drop out of the busy flow of life for a few moments, gathe...
In this article, the author introduces the topic of ancient wisdom, and suggests what the basic differences between Western models of coaching and the Ancient Wisdoms might be. The...
Executive Coaching, as a distinct specialty within the practice of Coaching in Organizations, expanded during the 90’s in such a rapid and broad way, that its senior practitioners ...
As the European’s First Executive Coaching Summit, one of the key themes discussed was what could be the European contributions to executive coaching and what some of the different...
The field of executive coaching continues to emerge as practitioners strive to support executives aimed at enhancing their current and future leadership effectiveness. This article...
Coaching in the organizational context is a magnified and multi-faceted version of one-to-one coaching, with additional twists due to the varied individual and group relationships ...
How do we deliver our best quality service to our clients, and how do we keep our personal bias from sabotaging orJr work? When confronted with ethical decisions in a corporate con...
In this article the author presents five shared core values that form the basis for ethical behaviors and define ethical acts: honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and compas...
What becomes possible in coaching when we treat clients as marvelously complex beings who live in language and moods, inhabit bodies and physical environments, and possess both wis...
Within the forest of success stories of both life and business coaching, there continues to be a shadowy debate that struggles with the question: is it coaching, or is it therapy? ...
Coaches sometimes make the case that executive, workplace and personal (life) coaching are substantially different coaching applications. Exploring these issues it is concluded tha...
This is the second in a series of three articles that is authored by William Bergquist. These articles concern the future of coaching in organizations. The first of these articles ...
Five years ago, Charlotte, North Carolina's City government realized it had a significant challenge. While Charlotte was enjoying dramatic growth and a strong economic engine, the ...
In this article, Taylor and Westeinde relate distinctive coaching approaches to an evolving landscape of demands for organizational change that continue to shape what we do as lead...
Executive coaching is a timely response to the postmodern challenges that face contemporary organizations. Executive coaching is also a human service field that holds great promise...
Surrenda and Thompson have undertaken a challenging task in this article as they attempt to identify common issues surrounding executive coaching and address possible solutions. Th...
Frederic Hudson, who earlier created the Fielding Institute, founded the Hudson Institute in 1986 with his wife Pamela McLean. HI, sometimes referred to as the “Harvard” of coachin...
‘East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.’ Whilst true in former times, this saying holds less sway in the 21st century, as See Luan Foo a Singapore-based Exec...
The past twenty years have seen an explosion of new thinking about how adults develop, what organizations need to do to adapt to rapid change, how the change process itself is ongo...
Executive and organisational coaching have became more and more popular in countries around the world. Any coach who is internationally mobile and works in other cities and countri...
We would like to thank all the writers for their thoughtful and stimulating reaction to our paper. We deeply appreciate their time, their interest and their investment in the disci...
“In a one-to-one, person to person context, we help people develop themselves and their own sets of personal values, and there couldn’t be anything more direct than that. So I beli...
If coaching is largely about shifting and expanding people’s perspectives in a way that they can translate into daily actions, then working with individual belief systems and assum...
Chuck, a bright, caring, “can do” executive reported to the COO of a billion dollar high tech company. New to his job, Chuck wanted to rebuild the morale in his organization as wel...
This is the second annual White Paper presenting outcomes and conclusions developed by a community of Executive Coaches attending an International Summit for purposes of further de...
Most business-based coaching concerns one of two critical junctures in the life of a manager: decision-making and performance. Yet, there is a third form of coaching in a business ...
The most difficult aspect of coaching, or any behavior change effort, is not initiating changes in behavior - it's getting those changes implemented and maintained in the workplace...
The author examines the notion of “coaching culture” by referring to his definitions of “coaching” and “culture.” 1 He further investigates the concept of a “global coaching cultur...
In recent years, a number of articles and books have been written on the subject of how to create a coaching culture in the belief that this will have a positive effect on organiza...
Integrating a bona-fide coaching culture into an organization to support a shift from “managing performance” to “coaching for performance” so that coaching is understood and practi...
There are many different opinions and perspectives on the topic of coaching culture. This article reviews mainstream definitions of coaching culture, looks at the benefits a coachi...
Coaching supervision is a prerequisite for accreditation of executive coaches by coaching associations in the UK. However, there is still considerable skepticism, caution, even ign...
Multi-stakeholder contracting for coaching takes place in organisational settings worldwide. This article presents the results and implications of an international study which expl...
This qualitative case study explores factors of mentor attrition from the perspective of 11 former mentors all of whom prematurely exited a community-based mentoring programme serv...
This paper evaluates the impact a resilience and wellbeing coaching programme had on staff working for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, during a time when they were con...
Teacher development, whether in pre-service teacher education or in in-service coaching, is a complex and context-dependent enterprise. As schools recognise the need to provide emb...
While coaching is establishing itself as an effective human development approach, there is limited understanding of the dynamics of coaching in the context of oppression. This pape...
In the domain of entrepreneurship, mentors are considered as volunteers and philanthropists yet their value is undermined, the purpose of this paper is to explore the feasibility o...
Coach supervision is a current topic. With the support of the coaching bodies, supervision is increasingly regarded as a requirement to practice as a coach. However, the evidence b...
Coaching draws on disciplines such as psychology, management theory, and organisational development. From these disciplines, models that seek both focused solutions to problems and...
This is a summary of the findings from the 2016 ICF Global Coaching Study. The study was commissioned in 2015 by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and undertaken by Pricewat...
Coaching skills are widely regarded as a desired communication tool for business areas in Japan. Being coached is not popular however, except in the context of physical coaching in...
The impact of critical experience on international executives can have serious consequences, assignments may fail. So coaching support may enhance their psychological capital and g...
Rather than concentrating primarily on the content of my research, I focus here on the process of carrying my research for a professional doctorate. Referring to Bourner, Bowden an...
It has been said that evaluating coaching/mentoring interventions is notoriously difficult (Klasen & Clutterbuck, 2002). In addition, evaluation in the pastoral ministry is difficu...
The coaching relationship is seen as integral to individual coaching, but less is known about the nature of the relationship within a team coaching context. This study explores the...
Whilst there has long been a call for evidence of a more quantifiable nature to show the impact of coaching interventions, in particular within the education sector, there may be g...
Despite its importance, there seems to be no research into listening in coaching. Of the few texts that explore it, only Cox (2013) presents a theoretical foundation. In contrastin...
This research uses heuristic inquiry to provide insight into experiences of generating questions in coaching. Eight experienced coaches, recruited as co-researchers, shared their e...
Mentoring schemes continue to increase within organisations and rely on attracting and retaining motivated volunteers. At the same time, mentoring is also becoming embedded within ...
The difficulty coaches face in relating to and understanding how clients perceive and interpret situations is that the process for clients making sense of situations is unconscious...
The current upward trend in immigration in the UK suggests that organisations will increasingly encounter people facing diversity challenges relating to gender, culture and religio...
This paper explores a new domain of coaching: group coaching for creativity. Despite increasing research on creativity literacy, rarely do we talk about the motivation to be creati...
The Collaborative Action Coaching for Leaders model (Cook, 2011) emerged from a longitudinal doctoral study researching coaching practice, and currently it is the only empirical mo...
There has been a significant increase in the number of paramedic practitioners leaving the profession, in relation to the increased anxiety and stress associated with the evolving,...
Although transformational learning is widely acknowledged within coaching, little is known about how such learning could be achieved in practice through coaching. Even less is know...
The existing literature lacks theoretical and empirical research when exploring the phenomenon of sustainable change as a result of executive coaching. Despite the rapid growth of ...
This study explores the experience of self-doubt of four self-employed coaches. The study sought to explore the metaphorical meaning-making of the participants, and semi-structured...
The coaching industry is growing fast and is making an important contribution to learning in the workplace. The CIPD’s 2006 learning and development survey showed that nearly eight...
This research, explores how to gain maximum value from multi-stakeholder contracting with the aim of sharing best practice. It is based on over 650 questionnaire responses from co...
There are two generations of women holding management positions in numbers in U.S. corporations. Most of the research and books have focused on the difficulties and needs of the fi...
This article explores the challenges for individuals and organizations of adding coaching to the repertoire of managers. In complex and dynamic environments, a manager becomes re...
Chronic illness is a growing issue in the workplace, and can prompt employees to reconsider their professional and a coaching intervention to help develop personal resources to sta...
This article presents a bibliological and morphological analysis of the research articles in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (IJEBCM). The findin...
There has been an almost exponential growth in the amount of coaching-specific and coaching-related research over the past ten years. At the same time there has been considerable ...
Coaching is a Western concept introduced into the Hong Kong Chinese society almost two decades ago. Confucianism, the underlying Chinese cultural principles, and Hofstede’s five di...
Life coaching as an industry fully emerged in the 1990s and has exploded to become a $2 billion global industry with nearly 50,000 certified life coaches (ICF, 2012). With the rapi...
Stress is a campus problem. This pre-post pilot study assessed the impact of Motivational Interviewing via Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) on the stress management of 30 full...
In this review we will provide a brief introduction to meta-analytic studies and the meaning of ‘effect size’ used to determine the size of the impact that coaching has. We will th...
In recent years, it has become common for executives to hire executive coaches to produce better results for their organizations in various ways, such as in terms of business perfo...
There is a continuous need for empirical evidence regarding the impact and experience of coaching leadership. The purpose of this study was to describe the effects from a coachin...
The purpose of this study was to explore patterns of the executive coaching experience among clients who use both face-to-face and technology-based mediated communication methods. ...
Background: The Understanding Group and Leader (UGL), provided by the Swedish National Defense College and mentored by UGL-trainers, is one of the most popular management program...
Background: Performance monitoring might have an adverse influence on call center agents’ well-being. We investigate how performance, over a 6-month period, is related to agents’ ...
Despite the clarion call over the past decade for greater humility in organizational leaders, little is known about the construct as a leadership trait. And, while scholars have ...
In this single case study, the author presented an in-depth description and analysis of a coaching intervention with focus on weight loss, conducted over 10 sessions in the course ...
This article provides a fresh look at the evidential needs in coaching by outlining important principles for the bases of evidence-based practice, the nature of evidence itself, t...
How do you define coaching and mentoring? What standards should apply? What should a competency framework for a coaching role look like? The issue of definitions and standards in...
Organisations that use coaching programmes express their need for the assessment of coaches to ensure quality of provision. One solution to this need has been provided by professi...
Attempts to standardise coaching and develop frameworks of accreditation for professional coaches currently appear to be growing as rapidly as the coaching industry itself. Coach ...
We conducted a literature review for studies and models used in team coaching. We surveyed our Hudson Institute Coaching community. We interviewed 11 executive coaches who current...
Using collective case-study inquiry the research question of how a formal semi-structured self-mentoring programme can support professional growth and faculty leadership developm...
This article presents a study of the use of Immunity to Change (ITC) coaching in an integrated leadership development programme as an example of awareness based leadership develo...
Organisations are increasingly concerned with promoting employee engagement. Research from positive psychology suggests that one key driver of engagement is experiencing work as ...
Mentors’ commitment to the mentor role is assumed to affect the quality of mentoring. Although studies have examined affective commitment as a potential source of favourable outc...
This study explored peer mentoring among a group of students in order to reinforce our understanding of the process within a private university in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....
Peer coaching is a peer mediated strategy that places the onus on the student-athlete to serve as both a player coach and a coached player. This exploratory study examined the e...
The purpose of this 12-week pre-post design study was to assess the impact of Motivational Interviewing via Co-Active Life Coaching (MI-via-CALC) on engagement in physical activit...
CCL research has suggested that leaders attribute as much as 70% of their leadership lessons to on-the-job-challenges, 20% to experiences in relationships, and only 10% to lessons ...
There are disconnects between what we know about leadership and how we assess leaders. You know that doing too much of a good thing can turn strengths into weaknesses. And that man...
As many reasons are put forward for the rapid proliferation of executive coaching as there are sceptics who believe it is a passing fad. This paper, after analysing the results o...
Despite a proliferation of ‘one-to-one’ taking practices that include counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, the existing approaches do not seem to by fully adequate, starting f...
This article explores the relationship between coaching and mental health issues. Coaching functions in a world that is dominated by the medical model of mental health, where prob...
This article explores the difference between executive coaching and mentoring. It argues that the boundary between the two is more blurred than is sometimes suggested. I n order t...
This article looks at the growth of coaching in the corporate sector and considers the overlaps with training provision. Drawing on the experience of the authors, a conceptual ana...
The use of psychometric tests has grown into a multi-million-pound industry. This paper describes a phenomenological study to investigate the reasons why coaches choose to use ps...
Coaching supervision has become a ‘hot potato’ in recent months as many coaching organisations and trainers are championing the need for anyone calling themselves a professional c...
The last thirty years have seen significantly more women reaching senior professional positions and a corresponding increase in women returning to work after having children. Howe...
This study explores the experience of self-doubt in coaching, and strategies adopted to overcome it. A phenomenological approach is used to explore the lived experience of self-do...
This paper explores how business coaches experience the boundary between coaching and therapy in their practice. Using a phenomenological approach, four therapeutically trained an...
This study investigated the experience of coaching in an executive or business cross-cultural coaching context. A phenomenological approach explored the possibility that the coach...
The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of mentoring on retention of women in policing in the United Kingdom. The research was undertaken with serving female police office...
This study adopts a heuristic phenomenological approach and investigates the occurrence and effects of the Inner Game (Gallwey, 1974) from a coach’s perspective. Published researc...
This research reported in this paper set out to explore and understand the lived experiences of coaches in supervision and captures the views they have formed as a result of their...
This paper seeks to explore some of the tensions and possibilities for those engaging in coaching and mentoring research, maybe for the first time. The paper highlights the impor...
This article explores some of the debates of grounded theory from the perspective of a novice researcher. The aim is to show how grounded theory processes support constant dialogu...
This article explores some of the ethical challenges that have been addressed primarily in the research design phase of a coaching doctoral research study. The ethical position of...
This article gives an insight into the research methods and findings of a study of the perceptions of middle managers in relation to engagement in coaching. The article aims to g...
The aim of this paper is to examine the contribution that coaching makes to the development of the quality of leadership in Tribal Group plc. The case study research is based on ...
The aim of this paper is to examine whether a blended leadership programme, which combined coaching and development sessions, would lead to lasting change. The research was undert...
This article explores the use of a narrative inquiry approach as a research method for research on coaching practice. It is based on an MA research project on the application of ...
This study explores the use of Human Givens ideas within the field of executive coaching. The research was undertaking using a phenomenological approach which sought to understand...
This study explores coaching and Spiritual Values (SV) in the workplace through the coach’s perspective, using a qualitative research method based on an interpretative phenomenolo...
Although the phenomenon of flow has been studied for over forty years there has been little focus on the application of flow theory to one-to-one enablement situations such as coa...
This paper presents the results of a study into the nature of the relationship between in-house coaches and their clients based on three case studies of coach-client pairs using a...
In coaching there is a lack of research that focuses specifically on progress, despite increasing global debate on what progress means for individuals and societies. This study us...
This qualitative study explores clients’ readiness for coaching. A grounded theory methodology is adopted and framed within an interpretivist/constructivist paradigm. The research...
Recent research largely focuses on measuring the outcomes of strengths-based coaching but fails to consider coachees’ individual experience of the process. This study aims to deep...
This study is an exploration of holistic life coaching for breast cancer survivors using a phenomenological mixed methods approach involving action research and semi-structured in...
This paper explores how coaching supports team working in an NHS hospital. Using a case study methodology, a multidisciplinary team were asked to reflect on and describe their ex...
This article concerns research undertaken with a cross-functional team preparing the market launch of a new product in Germany. The research aim was to find out whether there is a...
The purpose of this study is to illuminate the relationship between a coaching programme and the consequent changes within a scientific services unit of a UK county police force, ...
This article reports on a phenomenological study that examined middle managers beliefs about organisational coaching and their coaching practices. The study also investigated midd...
Newly appointed senior leaders are typically expected to “hit the ground running” and start making a difference within a few weeks of their arrival. This study explores how they a...
Little is known about what happens in a coaching conversation when an executive is at risk of derailing. Consequently, the coach might be unsure how to manage such challenging eng...
Self-esteem is generally perceived as fundamental to performance and research highlights its central role in our psychological well-being. Yet there is little coaching literature ...
Businesses often turn to coaching to combat under-performance in training transfer, i.e. the translation of learning from training into improved performance in the workplace. This...
This article derives from doctoral research which took a client perspective and a grounded theory approach to investigate how new secondary school headteachers use coaching and me...
Recent changes to medical career pathways have resulted in the introduction of a range of career support activities by medical education organisations. This doctoral research took...
Evidence continues to suggest that the quarter-life crisis is a prominent experience, yet coaching related literature on the subject is limited. This study develops the understand...
This paper explores the beliefs and assumptions that executive coaches hold about their coachees’ identities and how they perceive that this impacts on their coaching practice. Th...
This research explores the coach and coachee’s experience of psychometrics in coaching with specific reference to the conversation and the relationship. Three coaches and three co...
Research shows that a desired change, even when attempted, is not always sustained; this is the change paradox. Using a heuristic methodology this study focused on the experiences...
Interest in strengths-based coaching is growing, yet whilst there is evidence that focusing on strengths is beneficial, there is scant research within a coaching context and liter...
Stress remains a significant problem in contemporary society causing people to take sick leave and early retirement. This paper explores how using ideas from the existential appro...
This article explores the influence maternity coaching has on how women re-engage with their career development after maternity leave. The study addresses the lack of understandin...
Do the beliefs of Christian coaches influence their coaching practice? To explore this question, a qualitative research method based on an Interpretative phenomenological approach...
This heuristic research study places the phenomenon of expatriation into a developmental context and explores how cultural relocation may contribute towards individuals' post-conv...
This article follows the author’s own journey as a novice grounded theorist reflecting on the choices and challenges faced at each stage of the research process. The purpose of th...
There appears to be a gap between the behaviours of leaders and the expectations of followers and other stakeholders. This gap may be due to an absence of brave leadership. An act...
The Collaborative Action Coaching for Leaders model (Cook, 2011) is designed for the transfer and sustainability of learning from the coaching session to outside that experience: ...
The concept of hope has infused human culture for millennia and in modern times challenged psychologists’ attempts to define and measure individuals’ level of hope. The beneficial...
It is estimated that the treatment and care of those with a long term condition (LTC) accounts for 69% of the primary and acute healthcare budget in England (Department of Health ...
Failures in mentoring relationships threaten outcomes and can lead to chronic damage to participants. This paper reports on findings from a recent doctoral study to establish how ...
A qualitative, interpretive case study approach was developed to explore the role of coaching and mentoring in supporting the development of academic staff and organisational stra...
Integrated Leadership Development Programmes (IDLPs) have become increasingly popular in recent years. These programmes combine different elements such as 360° feedback, experient...
Coaching typically takes place as a seated conversation aimed at stimulating cognitive reflection. This study explores why some coaches are choosing to combine a physical activity...
The notion of goals as central to the coaching process is reflected in practice literature, popular coaching models and research, with an emphasis placed on the effectiveness of c...
This study adopts an interpretative phenomenological analysis of one-to-one interviews with six practicing executive coaches, who were asked to describe their experience of using ...
When designing, undertaking and presenting research, there are many decisions to be taken by a researcher. This paper explores the author’s experiences and reflections in respect ...
This paper aims to show how a positive psychology strengths approach can be useful in helping transitioning military personnel in their transition to “civvy street”. This qualitat...
The aim of the research reported in this paper was to discover if and how transformative learning theory is applied in coaching. Data were collected from eight coaches through sem...
The use of the in coaching is on the increase. This qualitative study discusses the experience of a coach who taught herself to conduct, analyse and score the Subject-Object Inter...
This comparative case study features six types of mentoring and coaching: mentors of young people; mentors of leaders; mentors of newly qualified teachers; executive coaches; coac...
When researching our own coaching practice there are a number of methodological choices we might make, action research being a common choice. This paper argues for an alternative ...
Feedback is generally accepted as key to improving business performance and is integral to coach practice. However, the anticipation of this activity can elicit feelings of anxiet...
Research indicates that the frequency and effectiveness of managerial coaching is failing to meet organisational demands. For companies to leverage the potential benefits a coachi...
This paper presents the findings of a study focused on the experience of coaches when coaching millennial leaders (where millennials are those people born 1980-1999). Following a ...
This study takes a preliminary look at the use of explicit structures (seeds), such as theoretical models, as a way of facilitating the coaching engagement in general and specific...
This paper examines the influence of managers’ personal time perspectives on perceived peer coaching effectiveness. Relatively little research has been done on peer coaching in bu...
This study examines coaching clients’ metaphors for their experiences of coaching. Semistructured interviews with a specific focus on metaphor were carried out with six participan...
The pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy (Cooper & McLeod, 2011) has created controversy in the therapy world but has yet to be explored as a coaching approach. T...
This paper uses an exploration of recent developments in corporate theory and human resources development to suggest that successful corporate systems emerging out of internation...
The models, schemas, recipes and mantras, which leaders of change bring to the projects they manage, are relatively little understood. Here the nature of these structures is expl...
This paper examines the impact of context on the development of coaching and mentoring practice. Qualitative research was undertaken with mentors working in the voluntary sector ...
This paper seeks to bridge and integrate the disciplined and rigorous practice of Design Conversation with the professional practice of coaching within the organisational setting....
Coaching is inherently a reflective process. Constructivist theories of learning are well established and greatly inform thinking on coaching. The coaching practitioner literature...
This paper, adopts a case study approach in order to examine the issues relating to the deployment of a coaching and mentoring intervention within the context of a specific UK ba...
This phenomenological case study, set within the UK Rail Industry used Soft Systems Methodology (Checkland and Scholes, 1991) to answer the central research question “Can workpla...
The coaching industry has reached a key important point in its maturation. This maturation is being driven by at least three interrelated forces: (1) accumulated coaching experie...
This paper inquires into the effects of coaching carried out within an evidence based framework highlighting and supporting three generic coaching processes. It focuses on the en...
This article aims to introduce five models of dealing with the self-concept applied by individuals in the process of personal and professional development and the method of using...
Recent explosions in the range of ‘people-development’ disciplines are necessitating a post hoc task of classification. Whilst inductive and historical methods can be used to tra...
The knowledge base of coach-specific research detailing theories, techniques and outcomes of coaching is growing annually. However, little is known about coaches themselves. This...
This paper explores the use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a way of developing the openness needed for successful communication in e-mentoring relationships. Using a case s...
According to the World Health Organization (1986), “health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their own health.” To bring this p...
This paper outlines the potential significance of behaviourism and its impact on developing effective coaching practice. Its purpose is threefold: firstly, it addresses the issues...
Coaching-based development is growing in prominence as a means of enhancing the achievement of leadership outcomes in Australian business. This article seeks to demonstrate how t...
In this article questions such as “What is a good use of time?” and “How can one’s relationship with time contribute to their well-being?” are raised and discussed with regard to...
This study is exploratory and looks for meaningful ways of differentiating coaching approaches used by UK practitioners as a way of establishing a more solid foundation for compa...
The use of external business coaches to improve the performance and competence of employees is increasing dramatically. However, there is still little empirical research attestin...
The resources used to run mentoring schemes are justified on the basis of the progress that is made by the mentee and while this must be the correct focus, it is important that th...
Knowledge is the life-blood of organisations, but the larger they grow the more difficult it becomes to share that knowledge and expertise. The purpose of this qualitative study w...
This paper outlines the conceptual framework for coach education used at the Interdevelopmental Institute (IDM) that focuses on changes in adult cognition and socialemotional cap...
This article reports on evaluation research undertaken in the United Kingdom on behalf of a consortium of leading edge educational providers engaged in delivering one strand of a ...
The study examined mentoring among eight pairs of university academics in Nigeria. A descriptive survey was used to assess the mentoring process among sixteen lecturers (ten male...
This paper explores the relationship between small and medium sized enterprise (SME) organisational culture and its impact on coaching and mentoring through the use of a case stu...
As coaching develops as an emerging profession, it is vital for coaches to begin integrating evidence from both coaching-specific research and related disciplines, their own expe...
Life coaching lacks a clear ontology of its range and depth. What is clear though is that people seek life coaching to make changes in their lives. One kind of change is frequentl...
This paper is based on the experiences of completing a virtual mentoring programme within the higher education sector that used the principle of ‘cognitive pairing’ to enable the ...
This study sought to understand whether supervision provides real value to coaches, by observing the experiences of group supervision for internal coaches in a professional organ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI) could be incorporated into a model for coaching and mentoring. The research was co...
Youth Business International (YBI) has helped a significant number of young entrepreneurs through its network of business programmes worldwide. It provides young people, who have...
The remarkable growth of coaching to date has not, so far, been matched by a similar growth in the research corpus that underpins it. There may be several explanations for this, i...
This article highlights relationships between the emerging practice of global coaching, described in Rosinski (2003a, 2006) and six leading ‘evidence based’ approaches to coaching...
Executive coaching is a rapidly growing form of organisation development intervention, and one which is receiving increasing attention in the management and psychology literature. ...
The aim of this study was to assess the compatibility between characteristics of employees ‘at risk’ for sickness absence and components of a preventive coaching intervention. Dat...
This study of a university peer-mentoring training programme evaluated mentor reaction, learning, transfer of learning and impact on organizational goals. Using quantitative and ...
Affective-cognitive integration is a crucial skill for human development and therefore must also be a key enabler in coaching. This paper proposes coaching techniques that facilit...
This study examines the cultural awareness of professionals working in organisations. Given the multicultural nature of today’s workforce, it is becoming increasingly important fo...
This grounded theory study looks at how theatre directors in rehearsal create a learning environment and considers what coaches can learn. It identifies some of the factors involv...
This phenomenological study is set in the context of leadership development in the National Health Service (NHS). The aim of the study was to provide an in-depth understanding of ...
This study attempts to produce evidence to establish whether teaching staff in schools in the UK, who undertake coaching as part of their continuous professional development, will...
Mentoring and coaching are rarely clearly defined and there has been a growth of confusion, as both terms tend to develop singular meanings in different professional contexts. In ...
Coaching in different forms is prevalent in many European organisations. However, individuals typically receive coaching in the traditional dyadic form. Groups are generally forme...
This paper presents a new approach to understanding how and why colleagues come together in professional partnerships. The ‘Four Constructs’ model looks at the motivations of thos...
In this conceptual article we suggest that understanding clients’ self-reflexive processes enables coaches to become even more effective in helping clients make changes in how the...
This study examined the effects of a support course for student teachers who served as mentors of school children over one school year in the Perach Mentoring Project (PMP). One h...
This paper sets out the argument that quite fundamental issues, both theoretical and practical, divide the various approaches to coaching. It does not suggest that any one approach...
In this paper, presented largely in the form of a dialogue, I outline the mental processes required for engaging with the Constructive Developmental Framework (CPF) (Laske, 1999)....
The aim of this study is to evaluate the mentoring process in a private organisation which utilises a very high technology and innovation process. In this organisation, the top ma...
This paper examines the findings of a qualitative research study conducted in the context of Australian preservice teacher education. The study looks at impact of mentoring experi...
Using qualitative and quantitative measures, this study explores the mentoring experiences and challenges among 48 members of the academic staff in a Nigerian university social s...
This study adopts a mixed methodology case study approach in order to provide support for the call for a radical re-evaluation of what enables coaching and mentoring within the s...
This study assessed the impact of life coaching on physical activity participation, self-efficacy, social support, and perceived behavioural control among physically inactive yout...
This study evaluates the impact of one-on-one coaching on the waist circumference, BMI, self-esteem, self-efficacy, physical activity, and functional health status of adults with ...
The latest trend in coaching is to help coaches and clients find each other. The degree to which these services deliver a true match creates questions about their real purpose. Th...
This research article aims to explore to what extent primary schoolteachers foster healthmentoring in their routine education practice on an informal and voluntary basis. Also it ...
This purpose of this paper is to surface findings from a review of pertinent major research in Singapore and highlight the system-wide impact of in-service leadership mentoring o...
Mentoring is rapidly gaining in popularity as a customized way to assist and support the novice entrepreneur. However, we still do not know very much about the usefulness of this ...
This study was approached as an action research project where school administrative assistants (SAA) responded to a questionnaire that examined their current workplace performance...
This study examines the effectiveness of a mentoring programme designed to help faculty integrate technology into teacher education courses. Effective strategies for implementing ...
While executive life coaching is quite prominent in the research forum as outlined in Grant’s workplace and executive life coaching annotated bibliography (2005), studies pertaini...
During the past few years, the growth of an emergent ‘coaching industry’ has resulted in some scholars calling for the development of a genuine coaching profession. Yet contempora...
Although there is an extensive mentoring literature there is a dearth of literature which addresses questions such as ‘What does it mean to be a mentor?’ or ‘What do mentors do?’ ...
In this study we examined mentor function and communication in relation to potential benefits for female protégés. Data were collected from 36 female leaders (10 with a female men...
This study evaluates the utility of mentors in facilitating a longitudinal intervention designed to enhance the coping skills of junior national netball players (mentees). Mentors...
In this study, the authors explore the effects of an executive coaching programme on important performance psychology variables (self-efficacy, causal attribution, goal setting, a...
Coaching is a rapidly expanding field with interdisciplinary roots and broad application. However, despite abundant prescriptive literature, research into the process of coaching ...
This paper describes a coaching supervision framework and practice and the effects of it on participants in the monthly supervision groups1 . The framework was originally develop...
While considerable research supports the use of peer mentoring to improve academic performance and decrease student attrition, few studies have examined the motives of peer mento...
Recent research and empirical investigations of mentoring programmes have focused on how mentors can help at-risk youth to develop trusting relationships through consistent freque...
Sales managers can supervise and help salespeople achieve their performance goals by using two types of behaviours: ‘coaching’ or ‘directive’ behaviour. As companies can be intere...
This article presents a conceptual application for use in executive and leader development coaching engagements. The Leadership Readiness Index uses developmental personality sty...
This study investigates the relationship between mentoring practices and beginning teacher migration. Mentor matching, degree of support, and frequency of interactions were exami...
This study examines the perceptions and experiences of six beginning principals in relation to the effectiveness of District-Created Mentoring Programmes (DCMP) and a statewide A...
This paper details the impact of a formalised staff mentoring scheme on people working in a University in the United Kingdom. It considers aspects of a changing political agenda ...
It is recognized that combining a thorough orientation to academic life and its expectations with intensive training in conceptualising research can accelerate the careers of ear...
The objective of this study was to explore smoking triggers and obstacles to cessation, and intervention experiences among nine 19-28 year old smokers who participated in a 3-mont...
The purpose of this paper was to explore the unique qualities/characteristics/components of the Co-Active coaching model compared to Motivational Interviewing and Egan’s Skilled H...
This paper outlines a cross-validation of the Cultural Orientations Framework assessment questionnaire (COF, Rosinski, 2007; a new tool designed for cross-cultural coaching) with...
Women are under-represented in academic grades in Higher Education, but more so in science, engineering and technology (SET) disciplines. This under-representation of women under...
This article discusses how positive psychology and evidence-based coaching can support youth service provision in order to promote cross fertilisation between these different doma...
The purpose of the present study is to investigate how learning experiences acquired through workplace coaching may affect stress. I identify two main learning experiences in the ...
Lying is pervading organizations and has a high economic and social toll. Lying among salespeople can be particularly dangerous, as they are at the boundaries of the organization...
Provision of excellent customer service is critical to the success of organisations relying on sales and patronage to survive. There is an abundance of theory suggesting a link b...
This article describes the structure and process of an e-mentoring scheme designed as an applied learning component within a final curriculum course in an online Master’s degree a...
The qualitative research study on which this article is based is an enquiry into the meaning and essences of the executive coaching-organizational learning phenomenon, as a social...
This paper outlines the potential of parallel processes to enhance experiential learning opportunities in coaching for mental health practitioners. Traditional views of parallel p...
This study has three main purposes. First, it introduces the Executive Coaching Work Behaviour Survey and takes the initial steps in validating this instrument. It then explores...
This study explores how coaching effectiveness is enhanced by focusing on and managing of the relative frequency of individual job tasks and how it contributes to deepening the le...
This article describes the outcomes of an e-mentoring scheme used as a functional component within an online graduate course in human resource development. During the online co...
This study analysed the 2009/10 formal teacher-pupil mentoring scheme at Blackwater Community School (BCS), Lismore, Co. Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. Twenty three teacher...
Corporate programs are often voluntary and sometimes struggle to attract sufficient participants. Mentoring programs tend to follow a mentor-mentee format. However, one Australia...
This study is an investigation into what mentees and mentors perceive they are learning and what factors contribute to this learning, within formal mentoring relationships. A qual...
The evidence-base for the practice of coaching continues to flourish, despite the fact that very little is known about the practitioners (i.e. the coaches) themselves. It is of ...
This paper considers dialogue as the central motif of coaching. Taking a social constructionist perspective it proposes that dialogue is the flow of meaning between human beings...
While executive coaching is a key means by which organisations and individuals build executives’ capabilities, very little research has investigated how effective or beneficial th...
This study explores how coaches understand the concept of narrative and work with it in their practice. Six coaches were interviewed using a method of narrative inquiry. The st...
This article examines what appears to be a societal compulsion towards goal pursuit and target setting within a coaching context. It explores the dissonance between coaching princ...
This paper presents an initial conceptualisation of relationship coaching for single people. The needs of singles are often ignored or misunderstood, and this paper argues that co...
This paper presents the results of a case-study of an internal coaching intervention aimed at building leadership capacity in a large production company in India. The purpose of t...
One of the key challenges of coaching is facilitating internal motivation in clients. The Life Code Matrix model (LCM) was designed to overcome this challenge. The research discus...
Reflective practice appears crucial for professional growth; making connections between mentoring practices and mentees’ reflections may assist mentors to guide reflective process...
Working with people invariably involves managing emotions. This qualitative study examines a coaching intervention designed to help a group of retail support workers in one mobil...
The first purpose of this study was to develop and test the factor structure of a multidimensional Coaching Leadership Self-Efficacy Scale (CLSES). A second purpose was to valida...
Many equestrian coaches are self employed and receive no formal support for development after completion of their lead body qualification. This study investigated a potential so...
The measurement properties of a newly developed instrument, Mentor Self-Efficacy Scale, were examined among 249 Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentor, child, and parent triads. ...
The purpose of this paper is to describe the experiences of Taiwanese science/engineering master's students interacting with their mentors/advisors. The study used the qualitativ...
This Australian study explores the mentoring of pre-service teachers in selecting and implementing teaching strategies to meet students‟ learning needs. Two case studies involvin...
The impact of invasive alien species is a global concern. In South Africa there are a limited number of trained and experienced Biodiversity professionals therefore mentoring of...
Studies incorporating Motivational Interviewing via Co-Active life coaching (MI-via-CALC) have elicited positive results among obese adults; however there is a paucity of compreh...
This study‘s purpose was to assess the experience and impact of Motivational Interviewingvia-Co-Active Life Coaching training on smoking hotline employees‘ perceived competency ...
Whilst an established aid to personal development, coaching is still in its early stages of maturity. So too, outside of the field of education, is the concept of learning team...
This study utilised a multiple case study design, grounded in self-determination theory, which examined changes in motivation and psychological courage throughout an 8-week qu...
ABC manufacturing is a large publicly listed manufacturer and distributor. The mission of the organization is to deliver superior and sustainable returns through leading market...
The purpose of this action research project is to understand how a coach’s own cultural lens impacts his/her coaching. Fourteen internal coaches from a government human resources ...
This paper describes three mentorship workshops facilitated in Fiji, which were part of 11 such sessions recently conducted throughout the Pacific island region. The authors inv...
This paper proposes that raising culturally-bound awareness and building culturally-appropriate responsibility constitute the essence of good inter-cultural coaching practice. It...
This article reports on a study that assessed professional cross-cultural coaches’ awareness and interpretation of ‘global mindedness’. With focus group discussions as its main...
The importance of a cultural perspective in coaching is increasingly significant for coaching practitioners and academics living in a globalised world. The question remains ...
Indigenous knowledge in coaching and coach training is key to Southern Africa’s leadership development and the re-connection to more human and community-centred ways of being. Ind...
Dr Alastair Macfarlane is a management practitioner, consultant and coach in the international domain. In this interview he explains how he takes a holistic approach to the prepar...
One factor in a former mentee’s decision to become a mentor is thought to be satisfaction with the mentorship that the mentee experienced when being mentored, but the issue has b...
This research investigates how students are supported at tertiary level when involved in peer coaching partnerships and whether both partners identify the same benefits. The stud...
This paper presents the lived experiences of eight women academics who were members of a Women’s Group Mentoring Program during a period of rapid change in a university environme...
This article sheds light on the challenges facing coaches when undertaking the journey to becoming a group coach. It begins with observations on the state of the art of group an...
Group coaching is growing as a leadership development intervention for executives, in business schools and organizations. Benefits include economies of scale, diversity of perspe...
This study determines the extent to which business coaches perceive they possess the qualities of authentic leadership and considers how this affects coaching performance. Data we...
This interpretive study explores what coaching offers to creative writers using the imagery of writers as travellers through a landscape. Semi-structured interviews were undertak...
This article, written in hindsight, is a personal account of a British Council and Afghan Ministry of Higher Education project that sought to establish mentoring relationships ...
Global virtual working across cultures and the use of manager-as-coach programmes have been increasing. Although some research on culture in coaching, virtual coaching and the man...
This article presents current empirical findings on a virtual coaching programme combining telephone coaching with an internet-based coaching programme. Within this study, 14 clie...
Knowledge sharing between employees is a critical success factor in knowledge intensive organisations and depends on the quality of an employee’s relationships with co-workers. R...
Goal-setting remains a largely unquestioned element of coaching practice. This study examined the goal orientation of 194 coaches in the U.S. and Europe. An analysis of survey res...
This study explores informal mentoring on outcome-based salesperson performance. Mentoring is believed to play an important role within corporations, yet little empirical evidenc...
Coaching and mentoring have been studied extensively with specific regard to learning theories; however, there is a lack of coaching and mentoring research that is both grou...
This integrative review of the literature synthesizes findings of previous research studies about the impact of Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an intervention to positive behav...
This study explores the influence of personal systems coaching on self-efficacy and goals achievement. A mixed-methods quasi-experimental research compared single mother degree s...
This paper presents findings from a proof of concept pilot study that explored the usefulness of a new Salutogenic model in coaching practice. The model aligns with the positive...
This article provides an overview of coaching methods and interventions that address different forms of imbalance in clients’ time perspectives, proposing a fresh look on dealin...
From early jazz to current sub-styles, the key component, improvisation, is thought to also be important to the coaching process. Improvisation in jazz can be conceptually link...
This article presents a model of how two coaching supervisors work together when delivering co- facilitated group coaching supervision. The model consists of three layers. The ...
This is a collaborative paper by staff members working with Students Learning with Communities (SLWC) and the Access Service in the Access and Civic Engagement Office (ACE) at Du...
The purpose of this study was to examine and better comprehend the concept of mentoring functions as they apply to leadership development within the American Council on Edu...
As of 2014 United States’ women entrepreneurs own 9.1 million businesses creating the fastest growing business segment. This phenomenological study highlights how women entrep...
Developing effective opposite-race mentorships in the STEM fields may contribute to minority student retention. Paying attention to the dynamics of race within the protégé’s prof...
Team effectiveness and well-being can be negatively affected by unconscious behavioral patterns and dysfunctional group dynamics. Becoming consciously aware of such patterns and u...
The purpose of this paper was to conduct a scoping review on Co-Active (Life) Coaching (CALC) literature related to health behaviour change. The scoping methodological framework d...
The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence managers to take advantage of coachable moments in day-to-day management. Interviews with ten managers found t...
The purpose of this study was to explore how post-graduate students in a fully online business course used information communication technology during a virtual peer coaching exper...
Introduction A Fortune 500 firm launched an innovative leadership development effort that was expected to accelerate the development of next generation leaders. The participants ...
Executive summary. The thesis is in German and is available from the author.
