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Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.

A Bandura Psychological Review 1977

Presents an integrative theoretical framework to explain and to predict psychological changes achieved by different modes of treatment. This theory states that psychological procedures, whatever their form, alter the level and strength of self-efficacy. It is hypothesized that expectations of personal efficacy determine whether coping beh...

Cites in Google Scholar: 111601
 
Motivational processes affecting learning.

C Dweck American Psychologist 1986

Describes how motivational processes influence a child's acquisition, transfer, and use of knowledge and skills. Recent research within the social-cognitive framework illustrates adaptive and maladaptive motivational patterns, and a research-based model of motivational processes is presented that shows how the particular performance or le...

Cites in Google Scholar: 13392
 
The impact of life coaching on goal attainment, metacognition and mental health

A Grant Social Behavior and Personality: An International Journal 2003

Despite its high media profile and growing popularity there have been no empirical investigations of the impact of life coaching on goal attainment, metacognition or mental health. This exploratory study used life coaching as a means of exploring key metacognitive factors involved as individuals move towards goal attainment. In a within-s...

Cites in Google Scholar: 882
 
Managerial lives in transition: Advancing age and changing times.

A Howard, DW Bray Guilford Press 1988

In 1956 AT&T decided to undertake a study of managerial lives unparalleled in its comprehensiveness and duration. This ambitious and unique research was not limited to studying the participants as managers, but examined the totality of their adult lives. In time, a second study was designed that addressed the abilities and motivations of ...

Cites in Google Scholar: 1017
 
Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency

A Bandura American Psychologist 1982

Addresses the centrality of the self-efficacy mechanism (SEM) in human agency. SEM precepts influence thought patterns, actions, and emotional arousal. In causal tests, the higher the level of induced self-efficacy, the higher the performance accomplishments and the lower the emotional arousal. The different lines of research reviewed sho...

Cites in Google Scholar: 34777
 
Building a practically useful theory of goal setting and task motivation: A 35-year odyssey.

EA Locke, GP Latham American psychologist 2002

The authors summarize 35 years of empirical research on goal-setting theory. They describe the core findings of the theory, the mechanisms by which goals operate, moderators of goal effects, the relation of goals and satisfaction, and the role of goals as mediators of incentives. The external validity and practical significance of goal-se...

Cites in Google Scholar: 12289
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Evidence-based coaching: Flourishing or languishing?.

M Cavanagh, A Grant Australian Psychologist 2007

Coaching and coaching psychology offer a potential platform for an applied positive psychology and for facilitating individual, organisational and social change. Experts from around the world were invited to comment on the emerging discipline of coaching psychology and the commercial coaching industry. Several key themes emerged including...

Cites in Google Scholar: 259
 
Advances in research on coaching outcomes.

S Greif International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

The review gives a theoretically grounded overview over new advances of research on coaching outcomes. In the first part general standard outcome measures and different specific methods are presented. The second part summarises studies that investigate coaching outcomes as the result of changes in pre-requisites or preconditions for co...

Cites in Google Scholar: 163
 
The impact of an online evidence-based coaching program on goal striving, subjective well-being, and level of hope

M Poepsel 2011

The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of an online evidence-based coaching program in terms of goal attainment, subjective well-being and level of hope. Both the coaching industry and use of the Internet have grown dramatically, and some coaches have added online communication to traditional face-to-face and telephone...

Cites in Google Scholar: 51
 
GAS powered coaching: Goal Attainment Scaling and its use in coaching research and practice.

G Spence International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

As the demand for an evidence-based approach to coaching grows, so does the need for rigourous outcome measures. However, despite the fact that coaching is a goal-focused process, there has been little discussion in the coaching literature about different approaches to measuring goal attainment. Given that goal attainment represents a key...

Cites in Google Scholar: 131
 
An Integrated Model of Goal-Focused Coaching: An evidence-based framework for teaching and practice

A Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

There is a considerable body of literature on goals and goal setting in the psychological literature, but little of this has found its way into the scholarly coaching literature. This article draws on the goal-setting literature from the behavioural sciences. It discusses a range of approaches to understanding the goal construct, prese...

Cites in Google Scholar: 337
 
Integrative health coaching and motivational interviewing: synergistic approaches to behavior change in healthcare

LA Simmons, RQ Wolever Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

As rates of preventable chronic diseases and associated costs continue to rise, there has been increasing focus on strategies to support behavior change in healthcare. Health coaching and motivational interviewing are synergistic but distinct approaches that can be effectively employed to achieve this end. However, there is some confusion...

Cites in Google Scholar: 119
 
The process of patient empowerment in integrative health coaching: How does it happen?

KL Caldwell, J Gray, R Wolever Global Advances in Health and Medicine 2013

Emerging healthcare delivery models suggest that patients benefit from being engaged in their care. Integrative health coaching (IHC) is designed to be a systematic, collaborative, and solution-focused process that facilitates the enhancement of life experience and goal attainment regarding health, but little research is available to desc...

Cites in Google Scholar: 71
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What is Relationship Coaching?

Y Ives International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012

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 coaching offers an effective framework for helping them form and secure sustainable life-partnerships. Relationshipcoaching is here portrayed as a nuanced balanc...

Cites in Google Scholar: 15
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Parallel processes in clinical supervision: Implications for coaching mental health practitioners

TP Crowe, LG Oades, FP Deane, J Ciarrochi, VC Williams International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

This paper outlines the potential of parallel processes to enhance experiential learning opportunities in coaching for mental health practitioners. Traditional views of parallel processes in clinical supervision are examined in relation to how they can be applied to enhance coaching mental health practitioners. For example, parallel re...

Cites in Google Scholar: 48
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Stress management through workplace coaching: The impact of learning experiences

G Ladegård International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

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 coaching process, insight and planning skills, and propose that these affect stress directly and also indirectly through mediators’ job demand, job control, a...

Cites in Google Scholar: 95
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Discovering, applying and integrating: The process of learning in coaching

K Griffiths, M Campbell International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

Coaching is a rapidly expanding field with interdisciplinary roots and broad application. However, despite abundant prescriptive literature, research into the process of coaching is minimal. Similarly, although learning is inherently recognised in the process of coaching, the process of learning in coaching is little understood and lea...

Cites in Google Scholar: 144
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Evidence Is a Verb: A Relational Approach to Knowledge and Mastery in Coaching

D Drake International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

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, the links between research and practice, the uses of evidence, the politics of evidence and the implications of evidence as a basis for coaching. The aim is to...

Cites in Google Scholar: 76
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What’s happening in the coaching conversation with an executive at risk of derailing?

N Sargent International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

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 engagements. This phenomenological study takes the coach’s perspective in focusing on this gap in the evidence base. Findings highlight the importance of quickly...

Cites in Google Scholar: 6
 
The potential use of the Authenticity Scale as an outcome measure in executive coaching

I Susing, LS Green, A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Authenticity, or being true to oneself, has been identified as a key construct related to well-being and the effective performance of leaders. This paper describes the construct of authenticity in the context of existing positive psychology and coaching psychology research. We discuss the Authenticity Scale and its suggested use both a...

Cites in Google Scholar: 35
 
A new frontier of research and practice: Observation of coaching behaviour

S Greif The Coaching Psychologist 2010

This paper gives an overview of recent observation studies of coaching behaviour and the coaching relationship. It follows a keynote at the 2nd European Coaching Psychology Conference, December 2009, in London. Models influencing the research are drawn from studies of the behaviour of psychotherapists that help to understand the effect...

Cites in Google Scholar: 50
 
Developing a healthcare leadership coaching model using action research and systems approaches – a case study: Implementing an executive coaching programme to support nurse managers in achieving organisational objectives in Malta

H Law, R Aquilina International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

Objectives: This study aims to show how a leadership coaching programme for Nurse Ward Managers may be implemented in a general hospital with the following objectives: ● clarify the Nurse Ward Managers’ idealised leadership attributes (ILA); ● identify any perceived gaps in leadership skills; ● develop and provide a comprehensive coa...

Cites in Google Scholar: 36
 
The Coaching Alliance as a universal concept spanning conceptual approaches

A O’Broin, S Palmer Coaching Psychology International 2010

This article proposes that regardless of the conceptual coaching approach, the coaching alliance is a universal concept related to positive coaching outcome. Drawing from coaching and coaching psychol- ogy research, counselling and psychotherapy outcome research and applications across allied domains, the Coaching Alliance is defined a...

Cites in Google Scholar: 26
 
A large-scale study of executive and workplace coaching: The relative contributions of relationship personality match and self-efficacy

E de Haan, A Grant, Y Burger, P Eriksson Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

This large-scale study of executive coaching explores the perceived effectiveness of coaching from the perspectives of coach, coachee, and sponsor, and potential active ingredients including the coach–coachee working alliance, coachee self-efficacy, personality, and “personality match” between coach and coachee. Using a retrospective desi...

Cites in Google Scholar: 286
 
Focus On Feedback: Introduction To The Ppr Relational Framework©

L Lewis EMCC Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference 2017

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 anxiety and fear. Observations from business and coach practice developed a perception that feedback has negative connotations and is often avoided. The PPR RELATIONA...

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Managerial coaching – A literature review

P Lawrence International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

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 managerial coaching is often regarded as a ‘cut down’ or simplified version of external coaching, it is suggested here that the role of the managerial coach is, in ma...

Cites in Google Scholar: 109
 
The client as active ingredient: ‘Core self-evaluations’ as predictors of coaching outcome variance

D Tee, D Shearer, G Roderique-Davies International Coaching Psychology Review 2017

This pilot study builds on previous research applying the ‘active ingredients’ model to coaching psychology and seeking to identify client traits that may predict coaching efficacy. It examines the relationship between the four ‘core self-evaluation’ traits (self-esteem, generalised self-efficacy, locus of control and neuroticism) and the...

Cites in Google Scholar: 11
 
The effectiveness of person-centered coaching intervention in raising emotional and social intelligence competencies in the workplace

M Lemisiou International Coaching Psychology Review 2018

Background: Research has shown that top performers (10 per cent) often differ from median performers in terms of emotional and social intelligence. Objective: The purpose of this study is to review a one-year, one-to-one, person-centered business coaching programme with the management and the production team members within an organisat...

Cites in Google Scholar: 35
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Coming in from the cold: The experience of group coaching as a setting for entrepreneurial learning and change

E Ostrowski 2018

The challenges of entrepreneurship make learning integral to the entrepreneurial process. However, many entrepreneurs work in relative isolation and lack opportunities to engage with peers in ways that promote meaningful reflection and learning. This study explores the experience of group coaching as a setting for meaningful learning and ...

Cites in Google Scholar: 2
 
Coaching C-Suite Executives and Business Founders

W Berman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2019

Founder chief executive officers and senior executives in the world’s largest companies make up a distinct, elite subset of the larger world of executives. They bring a particularly confident style, strategic way of thinking, influencing ability, and sense of authority and power that present unique challenges. When they work with a psycho...

Cites in Google Scholar: 27
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Using Group Coaching to Foster Reflection and Learning in an MBA Classroom

E Ostrowski Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2019

Group coaching may facilitate individual learning and change over time through the social processes of learning vicariously and learning through feedback. While anecdotal evidence shows there may be potential benefits of applying group coaching to a graduate school learning environment, there are several challenges which warrant consi...

Cites in Google Scholar: 8
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