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The role of coachee characteristics in executive coaching for effective sustainability.

G Bozer, J Sarros, J Santora Journal of Management Development 2013

Purpose – Executive coaching is gaining in popularity as a management developmental activity which facilitates organisational change for sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among coachee feedback receptivity, pre‐training motivation, learning goal orientation, developmental self‐efficacy, self‐report...

Is it time to REGROW the GROW model? Issues related to teaching coaching session structures.

A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Although models of how to structure coaching sessions are widely taught in coach training programmes there has been little or no debate in the literature about the use of session structures, the teaching of them, or the relative advantages or disadvantage of different specific session structure frameworks, and there have been few links...

The coaching manager: Developing top talent in business

J Hunt, J Weintraub Sage 2010

What is' Coaching'? An Exploration of Conflicting Paradigms.

Y Ives International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2008

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 is better or right; each approach would be more appropriate in particular situations. However, by understanding more clearly the nature of the difference betwe...

The psychology of coaching, mentoring and learning

H Law John Wiley & Sons 2013

The coaching/therapy boundary in organizational coaching.

J Price Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2009

A literature search revealed diverse descriptions of the coaching/therapy boundary. In an attempt to gain greater definition, organisational coaches were surveyed to discover how they made decisions about the boundary in their practice. Responses indicated that practising coaches viewed coaching as differing from therapy in being future-o...

Towards a model of coaching transfer: An exploration of the effects of coaching inputs on transfer

L Stewart, S Palmer, H Wilkin, M Kerrin International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Objectives: Executive coaching has become a respected learning and development strategy. Coaching outcomes and the conditions required for coachees to implement and sustain their development in the workplace have yet to be fully understood. These deficits impede coaching evaluation. The present study sought to operationalise a successful ...

Coaching for creativity, imagination, and innovation

J Jagiello 3rd Art of Management and Organisation Conference 2006

The Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) has acknowledged the rise of coaching, and has developed a set of standards to guide the coaching profession. The aim of this discussion paper is to explore the potential of creative coaching. What it could offer professional practitioners, and to investigate what professionals unders...

Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development

P Hawkins, N Smith McGraw-Hill Education (UK) 2013

Academic background and credibility in executive coaching effectiveness

G Bozer, S C., S C. Personnel Review 2014

Purpose – Little empirical research has examined the role of coach characteristics in coaching success. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap in the literature by identifying and testing the relationships between a coach's academic background in psychology and credibility with executive coaching effectiveness as reflected in g...

The Value of Executive Coaching

A Mulvie Routledge 2015

The solution-focused inventory: a tripartite taxonomy for teaching, measuring and conceptualising solution-focused approaches to coaching

AM Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Executive coaching enhances goal attainment, resilience and workplace well-being: A randomised controlled study

AM Grant, L Curtayne, G Burton The Journal of Positive Psychology 2009

In a randomised controlled study, 41 executives in a public health agency received 360-degree feedback, a half-day leadership workshop, and four individual coaching sessions over 10 weeks. The coaching used a cognitive-behavioural solution-focused approach. Quantitative and qualitative measures were taken. This is the first published rand...

Toward a positive psychology of executive coaching

C Kauffman, A Scoular John Wiley & Sons 2004

The coaching psychology movement and its development within the British Psychological Society

S Palmer, A Whybrow International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

To many members of the British Psychological Society (BPS) it may appear that the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) has come from nowhere to somewhere in a short space of time. It held its inaugural meeting on 15 December 2004 and by March 2005, it had become the third largest BPS subsystem with over 1600 Founder Members ...

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

E de Haan John Wiley \& Sons 2011

Inspirational chaos: Executive coaching and tolerance of complexity

PJ Webb Australian Academic Press 2005

The historical events of 9/11, the subsequent wars, and the coincidental collapse of corporations and economies have heightened the perception of complexity and uncertainty in the business environment. Executive managers face unprecedented challenges, solutions for which are often beyond the reach of current practice. That we live in turb...

The parameters of specialist professional leadership coaching

RH Elliott Evidence-based coaching: Contributions from the behavioral s... 2005

A survey of executive coaching practices in New Zealand

I Brooks, S Wright International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

Executive coaching is a rapidly growing form of organisation development intervention, and one which is receiving increasing attention in the management and psychology literature. This study reports on the state of the practice of executive coaching in New Zealand, about which little is currently known. Fifty-nine executive coaches respon...

Managing the double agenda in executive coaching

D Podea, B Macavei, K Wild Journal of Psychological and Educational Research (JPER) 2015

The primary problems addressed in executive coaching are business and management issues; increasing performance; stimulating employees' motivation; applying different kinds of strategies to conflict management; and answering critical questions. It should be noted however, that in almost every case where executive coaching is sought, execu...

Examining the Effectiveness of Executive Coaching on Coachees' Performance in the Israeli Context

G Bozer, JC Sarros International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012

While executive coaching is a key means by which organisations and individuals build executives’ capabilities, very little research has investigated how effective or beneficial this development tool is to the individuals or the organisations in which they work. The purpose of this study was to examine executive coaching effectiveness b...

Leadership Coaching as Design Conversation

S Stalinski International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004

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. Argument is made that coaching is uniquely positioned to serve as a tool and process for facilitating genuine and effective dialogue at the organisational le...

Time perspectives and perceived effectiveness of peer coaching interventions between managers in an organisational context

J Anzengruber International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

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 business environments and on how to incorporate personal time perspectives into peer coaching settings. This paper investigates the compatibility of different t...

Revisiting the P in the PRACTICE coaching model

S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2011

The PRACTICE model of coaching has been developing over time and adapted to the presenting issues arising during the initial stage of coaching. This paper will briefly highlight the options available.

Steps to Solutions: A process for putting solution-focused coaching principles into practice

AM Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2013

Solution-focused coaching is increasingly used by leaders, managers, and human resource professionals as well as professional coaches. Although the principles underpinning solution-focused coaching are simple, some people find it difficult to put those principles into practice in a systematic manner – simple is not the same as easy. Al...

The development of an effective staff coaching programme for stress prevention and reduction in the Prison Service

S Talbot-Landon, S Palmer, P Flaxman The Coaching Psychologist 2007

Stress is a well known issue within many organisations and indeed many walks of life. The work of the Prison Service can conceivably be envisaged as a stressful job and this was highlighted by Cooper (1997) when being a Prison Officer was found to be the most stressful occupation. Ten years after Cooper’s research, we plan to investiga...

Back to basics III: On inquiry, the groundwork of coaching and consulting

E de Haan International Coaching Psychology Review 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to go to the heart of the consulting and coaching intervention and to explore what is its core active ingredient. In earlier articles (De Haan, 2011 & 2012) I introduced two basic ingredients in terms of their historical understanding: transference and reflective-self function. This article hopes t...

Utilising evidence-based leadership theories in coaching for leadership development: Towards a comprehensive integrating conceptual framework

R Elliott International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

Purpose: Examination of the coaching psychology literature shows that discussion about leadership coaching is disconnected from the scientific literature about leadership. Similarly, the latter has only recently begun to consider how leadership is developed. This lack of cross-engagement between two relevant evidencebased literatures ...

Evaluating the impact of a peer coaching intervention on well-being amongst psychology undergraduate students

S Baker, G Kinman, E Short International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: To examine the effectiveness of a peer coaching intervention on aspects of well-being in students. Design: A two-factor mixed design was employed. Method: Two groups of third-year undergraduate psychology students participated in this study. The coaching group (N=32) comprised 24 females and eight males (mean age 25.23, SD=...

Developing the leader as coach: insights, strategies and tips for embedding coaching skills in the workplace

A Grant, M Hartley Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2013

This article presents some practical insights, strategies and tips about how to help organisations embed leadership coaching skills in the workplace following participation by executives and managers in ‘Leader as Coach’ development programs. Given that organisations globally are increasingly using such programs as part of leadership deve...

The PRACTICE model of coaching: towards a solution-focused approach

S Palmer Coaching Psychology International 2008

Making sense of Team Coaching

S Farmer The Coaching Psychologist 2015

Since Hackman and Wageman’s description of a team coaching model (2005), subsequent commentary and research has been relatively limited compared to that of executive coaching targeted at individuals. This paper seeks to review the core terms that relate to and underpin team coaching, before focusing upon how it has been described and defi...

The preventative impact of management coaching on psychological strain

A Weinberg International Coaching Psychology Review 2016

Objectives: The positive impact of coaching on a range of outcomes, including the well-being of those in receipt of it, has been highlighted by a number of published reviews (e.g. de Haan & Duckworth, 2013) and meta-analyses (e.g. Jones, Woods & Guillaume, 2015). The objective of this study was to assess the potential for coaching to act ...

ENABLE: A solution-focused coaching model for individual and team coaching

M Adams The Coaching Psychologist 2016

A number of coaching models exist that can add structure, direction and momentum to coaching conversations, including I-GROW, PRACTICE, SPACE and OSKAR (Whitmore, 2002; Palmer, 2007, 2008; Edgerton & Palmer, 2005; Jackson & McKergow, 2002). This paper introduces a new coaching model – ENABLE – which captures some of the key components of ...

A new model of sustainable change in executive coaching: coachees’ attitudes, required resources and routinisation

N Koroleva International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016

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 executive coaching, there is a disconnection between practice and academic research in assessing sustainable change. This means that reflective practitioners fa...

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...

Reflective practice for coaches and clients: An integrated model for learning

A Hullinger, J DiGirolamo, J Tkach Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2019

The literature on reflection, awareness, and self-regulation provides theoretical and empirical fruit for understanding self-processing mechanisms that enhance learning, growth, and performance. A literature review was conducted to explore the potential of reflection, awareness, and self-regulation as developmental tools for coaches. Fro...

The role of courage in the development and practice of coaches

C Wood, T Lomas International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2021

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 is the first study to investigate its significance. Within the precepts of constructivist grounded theory, which is appropriate for the investigation of under-...