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Beyond GROW: A new coaching model.

S Dembkowski, F Eldridge The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching 2003

Searching for the elusive model of coaching: Could the 'Holy Grail' be right in front of us?

T Kemp International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Good to Great Coaching.

D Peterson Jossey-Bass 2011

Coaching for performance: A practical guide to growing your own skills

J Whitmore Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1992

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...

Professional and peer life coaching and the enhancement of goal striving and well-being: An exploratory study

GB Spence, AM Grant The Journal of Positive Psychology 2007

Few studies have investigated the impact of life coaching on self-regulated behavior and well-being. A limitation of past studies has been their reliance on peer rather than professional coaches. The present randomized controlled study compared peer with professional life coaching over a 10-week period with 63 participants. Results indica...

PRACTICE: A model suitable for coaching, counselling, psychotherapy and stress management

S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2007

This paper introduces ‘PRACTICE’, a convenient acronym which represents an established seven-step model that has been used in coaching, counselling, psychotherapy and stress management. Using PRACTICE, the practitioner can help the client to assess issues or problems, understand their concerns, develop a range of possible solutions and...

Solution-focused coaching: Managing people in a complex world

J Greene, A Grant Pearson Education 2003

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...

Vision-based coaching: optimizing resources for leader development

AM Passarelli Frontiers in psychology 2015

PEAK: A model for use within performance coaching

G O’Moore The Coaching Psychologist 2012

This paper introduces ‘PEAK’, a model suitable for use within performance coaching. PEAK is an acronym formed from the four interacting domains that are considered to underpin performance; Purpose, Engagement, Ability, and Know-how. The aim is to present an overview of the model and the theory that underpins it as well as providing a b...

Identity construction in coaching: Schemas, information processing, and goal commitment

C Coultas, E Salas Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2015

Leadership coaching is a nearly $2 billion per year industry (International Coach Federation, 2012), and although many different theories and approaches to coaching exist, relatively little is known about the differential effectiveness of various coaching approaches. Grounded in theories germane to but that transcend coaching (e.g., socia...

Reflection, note-taking and coaching: If it ain’t written, it ain’t coaching!

A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2016

This paper explores issues related to reflection-in-action, an essential tool in the development of coaching expertise, and discusses how note-taking by the coach during the coaching conversation can help develop the coach’s skills in this area. Reflection-in-action is in-the-moment reflective use of experience and knowledge so as to bett...

The role of coaching in developing character strengths in leaders

B Eckstein 2017

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 coaching intervention using a Positive Psychology framework can lead to a shift in a person’s ‘way of being’ and enhance cognitive and other areas of functionin...

Conceptual framework for a positive psychology coaching practice

J Burke The Coaching Psychologist 2018

The complementary nature of positive psychology and coaching psychology has long been recognised by both researchers and practitioners. The last decade saw a tenfold increase of articles relating to positive psychology coaching and even more literature attempting to apply some of the findings from positive psychology in a coaching practic...

Broadening and building solution-focused coaching: feeling good is not enough

A Grant, S O'Connor Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2018

Past research has found that solution-focused (SF) coaching questions led to more positive outcomes than problem-focused (PF) coaching questions. Another body of research (Broaden and Build Theory; Fredrickson, B. L. (1998). What good are positive emotions? Review of General Psychology, 2(3), 300–319) posits that positive emotions promote...

Factors that influence users’ adoption of being coached by an Artificial Intelligence Coach

N Terblanche, D Cilliers Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2020

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-coaching systems’ or ‘AI Coaching’) promise to deliver personalised, timely, around-the-clock coaching in a wide variety of domains and to a broad audience. Ch...