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Executive coaching in practice: What determines helpfulness for clients of coaching.

de Haan. E., V Culpin, J Curd Personnel Review 2011

Purpose – Executive coaching is gaining in popularity, both as part of personal or organisational development programmes and as a tailored form of individual consulting. The purpose of this study is to examine how various aspects of the executive coaching intervention make a difference to the clients of coaching themselves. Design/meth...

Coaching and mentoring: Theory and practice

B Garvey, P Stokes, D Megginson Sage 2014

The processes that promote learning in adult mentoring and coaching dyadic settings

M Marx Regent University 2009

Relational coaching: Journeys towards mastering one-to-one learning

E de Haan John Wiley \& Sons 2011

Executive coaching: A review and agenda for future research

DC Feldman, MJ Lankau Journal of management 2005

The use of executive coaching as a developmental intervention for managers has increased dramatically during the past decade. Consequently, there has been a burgeoning practitioner literature on the topic of executive coaching. Empirical research on executive coaching, however, has lagged far behind, and theoretical work on the processes ...

Benefits of formal mentoring for female leaders

R Høigaard, P Mathisen International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

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 mentor and 26 with a male mentor) enrolled in a formal mentor program. A self-reported questionnaire measuring mentoring function (e.g. coaching behavior and cou...

Mentoring in the Nigerian academia: experiences and challenges

DE Okurame International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2008

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 science faculty, where the mission was to enhance the skills of academic staff members through mentoring programmes. The findings of the survey revealed that th...

Supervision in Action

E de Haan Open University Press 2012

An organizational-development approach to implementing mentoring partnerships: Best practices from physician programs

J Giancola, M Heaney, A Metzger, B Whitman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

Building upon the mentoring literature, the present article shares an organizational development (OD) approach to design, implement, institutionalize, and evaluate a successful formal mentoring program. Best practices are shared from the facilitation of programs with physicians in 5 different medical centers including 27 rollouts over 10 ...

Chief Executive Officers and Their Trusted Advisor Relationships: A Qualitative Study from the CEO's Perspective

W Slenders 2010

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 advisors. This phenomenon is significant because CEOs at the top of their organizations increasingly find themselves isolated. To whom do they turn and trust for g...

The impact of training, mentoring and coaching on personal learning in the sales environment

S Bradford, B Rutherford, S Friend International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

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 tools and the extent to which a salesperson applies the knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired in training on the job, defined as learning transfer. Using a s...

Mentoring relationships in sport from the protégé’s perspective

J White, P Schempp, B McCullick, B Berger, J Elliott International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

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 Role Theory (Kram, 1985). A convenience sample of 230 volleyball coaches was recruited for this study. Data were collected using the Coaches Mentor Role Instrument...

The effect of business coaching and mentoring on small-to-medium enterprise performance and growth

B Crompton 2012

This thesis aims to address the principal question of whether business coaching directly or indirectly enhances firm financial performance and growth. The present thesis incorporates four comprehensive and inter-related studies designed to investigate the contribution of business coaching to firm growth in cohorts of start-up companies an...

Effects of the similarity between mentees and mentors on the evaluation of the ‘Mentoring for Migrants Program’

E Neuwirth, I Wahl International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

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 evaluated positively by the mentored migrants. No relation was found between objective similarity in the sociodemographic background of the mentees and mentors and the...