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Coaching versus therapy: A perspective.

J Blattner, V Hart, S Leipsic Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2001

This article reports a study of current perceptions among professionals regarding therapy and coaching. Whereas therapy and counseling have been traditional fields of study and practice, coaching is not as well developed. It is helpful to examine the perceptions of practicing professionals in order to delineate the distinctions and overla...

Executive coaching as a transfer of training tool: Effects on productivity in a public agency.

G Olivero, K Bane, R Kopelman Public personnel management 1997

Examined the effects of executive coaching in a public sector municipal agency. 31 managers underwent a managerial training program, which was followed by 8 wks of 1-on-1 executive coaching. Training increased productivity by 22.4%. The coaching, which included goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback, supervisory i...

In over our heads: The mental demands of modern life

R Kegan Harvard University Press 1994

Business-linked executive development: Coaching senior executives.

T Saporito Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996

Presents a model of executive coaching based on the organizational requirements that shape the leadership factors to be considered in the coaching process. Consultants must clearly shape their coaching to reflect these dimensions if they are to be effective in helping to increase the effectiveness of their individual clients. Consulting i...

Working with executives: Consulting, counseling, and coaching.

L Sperry Individual Psychology: Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research ... 1993

Describes the inner world and needs of today's executives and how psychologists and psychiatrists can respond to their need for consulting, coaching, and counseling. Profiles of the healthy, distressed, and impaired executive are sketched, and 3 types of services are described: executive consulting, executive counseling, and executive coa...

Introduction to the solution-focused approach

B O’Connell Sage 2003

Executive Coaching: Inspiring Performance at Work. IES Report 379.

A Carter ERIC 2001

A four-phase study was conducted in Great Britain to determine what executive coaching is, why organizations use it, what issues are involved, and where executive coaching fits in terms of management learning theory. Data were gathered through a literature review, in-depth interviews with management development specialists and others in o...

The brave new world of executive coaching

WQ Judge, J Cowell Business Horizons 1997

Executive coaching: the new solution

A Snyder Management Review 1995

Helping successful people get even better

M Goldsmiths Business Strategy Review 2003

Executive leader coaching as a strategic activity

L Smith, J Sandstrom Strategy \& Leadership 1999

This article explores the strategic validity of executive leader coaching. The authors offer the definition of executive coaching and the distinguishing factors of this professional industry and present three primary strategic interventions that executive coaches make in upgrading the performance of leaders, executive teams, and the organ...

Executive coaching defined

L Thach, T Heinselman Training and Development 1999

Psychoanalysis and coaching

R Brunner Journal of Managerial Psychology 1998

Psychoanalysis has nothing to say about firms or management as such; inversely, psychoanalytic coaching can aid managers to develop a better understanding of the role they exercise within the firm and to better position themselves in decision making and communication with other people. While it is a practice that takes place outside the c...

The psychology of executive coaching: Theory and application

B Peltier Taylor & Francis 2001

Executive coaching that wins

JH Eggers, D Clark Ivey Business Journal 2000

The coach-coachee relationship in executive coaching: A field study.

L Baron, L Morin Human Resource Development Quarterly 2009

Numerous authors have suggested that the working relationship between coach and coachee constitutes an essential condition to the success of executive coaching. This study empirically investigated the links between the coach-coachee relationship and the success of a coaching intervention in an organizational setting. Data were collected f...

Executive Coaching Competencies: A Review and Critique With Implications for Coach Education.

K Blumberg Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture 2014

Choosing an executive coach: The influence of gender on the coach-coachee matching process.

D Gray, H Goregaokar Management Learning 2015

Coaching has enjoyed substantial commercial growth, but empirical support for its effectiveness is limited. Nowhere is this more so than in the matching process between coach and coachee. This study describes the results from a coaching programme in which coachees were asked to reflect on and justify their choice of coach. Initial, qualit...

Efficacy of Immunity-to-Change Coaching for Leadership Development.

I Markus The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 2013

This study is the first formal, quantitative investigation of the effectiveness of Immunity-to-Change coaching for leadership development. Forty-five supervisors who engaged in Immunity-to-Change coaching were compared with a comparison group of 25 supervisors from the same company to determine whether coached participants reported more p...

Coaching on the dark side.

E Nelson, R Hogan International Coaching Psychology Review 2009

Dysfunctional personality characteristics can derail the career of an otherwise competent executive. Personality predicts both leadership effectiveness and derailment, and assessment of these characteristics is critical for effective coaching and leader development. This paper reviews the relationship between personality and leadership an...

Relating in executive coaching: A behavioural systems approach.

M Visser Journal of Management Development 2010

Purpose – In recent research the strength and nature of the relationship between coaches and executives appears as a critical success factor in successful coaching outcomes. However, little theory has as yet been devoted to an analysis of how relationships are used in executive coaching. Such an analysis requires going from the monadic, ...

A quantitative study on executive coaching from a learning transfer perspective

E Lord 2010

Coaching models for leadership development: An integrative review

W Carey, D Philippon, G Cummings Journal of Leadership Studies 2011

Toward a Profession of Coaching? A Definitional Examination of ‘Coaching,’‘Organization Development,’and ‘Human Resource Development’

RG Hamlin, AD Ellinger, RS Beattie International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

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 contemporary organization development (OD) and human resource development (HRD) practitioners conceive of coaching as an extant core component of their respective field...

Guided Reflection Model: How Executive Coaching Can Assist Organizational Leaders Enhance Their Creativity, Innovation and Wisdom

T Cerni American Journal of Educational Research 2015

This paper outlines how executive coaching can assist organizational leaders engage in a guided process of reflection to enhance their creativity, innovation and wisdom. The conceptual model proposed in this paper is an extension of the Cognitive-Experiential Theory (CET; Epstein, 2014) and the recently developed Cognitive-Experiential Le...

Relationship Coaching

Y Ives Taylor & Francis 2011

Travelling Together: What does Coaching Offer Creative Writers?

E Forbes International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014

This interpretive study explores what coaching offers to creative writers using the imagery of writers as travellers through a landscape. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with coaches and writers; data analysis used an inductive approach. Findings underlined the importance of the coach-coachee relationship and shed light on t...

A Work Behaviour Analysis of Executive Coaches

G Newsom, EB Dent International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

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 the frequency of specific work Behaviours executive coaches use in their client interactions and examines the variability in these behaviours based on demogr...

An HR perspective on executive coaching for organisational learning

A Walker-Fraser International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

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 construct of the lived experiences and perceptions of HR professionals. The findings suggest a need to place executive coaching within an organization’s syst...

Transformative Learning and Executive Coaching in the Workplace

E Rankin 2015

Transformative learning is a concept most often associated with the field of education. However, organizations are often seeking to transform executives in order to prepare them for more responsibility, more challenging roles or environments. Coaching is often used as one of the interventions to help facilitate significant executiv...

A Trojan Horse? The Implications of Managerial Coaching for Leadership Theory

V Anderson Human Resource Development International 2013

This paper examines the behaviours associated with managerial coaching and assesses the implications for leadership theory. Survey data from 521 line-managers are analysed to: identify the behaviours associated with managerial coaching; examine factors that affect the propensity of managers to undertake coaching; and discuss the impli...

Professional development in coaching: towards a dynamic alliance of narrative and literature to transform the learning process

C Eastman International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016

Coaching draws on disciplines such as psychology, management theory, and organisational development. From these disciplines, models that seek both focused solutions to problems and those that aim to effect transformative learning have been developed. My work with students has revealed some dissatisfaction with performance coaching models ...

The Role Of Coaching For Relationship Satisfaction, Self-Reflection, And Self-Esteem: Coachees’ Self-Presentation Ability As A Moderator

J Rank, D Gray Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

Although theoretical and applied work has emphasized the critical role of coachee personality in the coaching process, little empirical research has identified specific personality traits as moderating variables. Drawing from social-psychological theories, we examined coachees’ ability to modify self-presentation, a major facet of the sel...

Crossing the line? A qualitative exploration of ICF master certified: Coaches’ perception of roles, borders and boundaries

C Sime, Y Jacob International Coaching Psychology Review 2018

Objectives: Coaches have an unclear role and the industry shares a complex border with therapeutic practices. This study explored the nature of the relationship between coaching and therapeutic practices, how coaching professionals experience, navigate and manage this boundary, and sought to identify what roles they adopt. Design: Seve...

How coaching interactions transform leader identity of young professionals over time

A Hughes, C Vaccaro International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2024

This longitudinal qualitative study explores how social interactions between young professionals and their leadership coach develop leader identity. Examining eleven pairs of coaches and clients participating in a three-to-six-month leadership development programme, this exploratory research found five general interaction types that form ...