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An integrative goal-focused approach to executive coaching.

A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006

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...

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

AM Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Goal orientation in coaching differs according to region, experience, and education

S David, D Clutterbuck, D Megginson International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014

Goal-setting remains a largely unquestioned element of coaching practice. This study examined the goal orientation of 194 coaches in the U.S. and Europe. An analysis of survey results revealed differences according to region, coaching experience, and education. Specifically, coaches in the USA are more goaloriented than European coache...

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...

A pilot study evaluating strengths-based coaching for primary school students: Enhancing engagement and hope

W Madden, S Green, AM Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

Objective: This pilot study examines the impact of an evidence-based strengths coaching programme on male primary school students’ levels of engagement and hope. Design: In a within-subject design study, 38 Year Five male students (mean age 10.7 years) participated in a strengths-based coaching programme as part of their Personal Devel...

Developing an agenda for teaching coaching psychology

A Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

The research and practice of coaching psychology has developed considerably over the past 10 years. However, if coaching psychology is to continue to grow and develop, an educational and teaching framework needs to be established. Very little attention has been paid in the published literature to the teaching of coaching psychology. Th...

Is managerial coaching a source of competitive advantage? Promoting employee self-regulation through coaching

C Pousa, A Mathieu Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2015

The present business environment of extreme competition and rapid changes has motivated scholars to identify variables that can help companies stand up to and overcome these challenges. Research on self-regulation found that self-perceptions of efficacy not only can mediate the effects of external influences on results, but can also regul...

Coaching in the wild: Identifying factors that lead to success.

S Sonesh, C Coultas, S Marlow, C Lacerenza, D Reyes, E Salas Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2015

Although executive coaching has been shown to be effective, few research initiatives have attempted to understand the importance of the emergent relationship between a coach and coachee. This article explores the factors that influence coaching outcomes from both the coach and coachee’s perspective and presents the results of the mediatin...

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...

What Communications or Relational Factors Characterize the Method, Skills and Techniques of Executive Coaching?

F Moen, R Kvalsund International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2008

This article aims to clarify executive coaching by describing the coaching process through an examination of relevant theory. Establishing a relationship based on mutuality between the coach and the coachee is central to the coaching process as we see it. For the coachee to achieve independence and greater control of his or her own learni...

Exploring the evolution of coaching through the lens of innovation

M Abravanel, J Gavin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

In this paper, we examine coaching’s innovativeness through a comparison of its approaches and methods with those of more established helping professions. Using extant literature, we consider the nature of innovation before going on to examine coaching’s core beliefs and values, theoretical paradigms, and its goals, techniques, and method...

Facilitating Successful Behavior Change: Beyond Goal Setting to Goal Flourishing

K Nowack Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

Most successful coaching engagements encourage clients to start, increase, decrease, modify, or stop behaviors that contribute to their effectiveness and performance on the job (Fogg, n.d.). Successfully sustaining new or altered behaviors over time until they become a habit is even more difficult (Nowack, 2009). Goal intentions (e.g., “I...

Executive Coaching: New Framework for Evaluation

K Osatuke, B Yanovsky, D Ramsel Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

Evaluation research has struggled to keep up with the popularity of coaching, as measures of its effectiveness are challenging to standardize, particularly when coaching executives. Similar to interpersonally based interventions in other fields such as counseling and psychotherapy, coaching takes the form of a fluid, humanistic process, w...

The Efficacy Of Executive Coaching: An Empirical Investigation Of Two Approaches Using Random Assignment And A Switching-Replications Design

J Williams, R Lowman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2018

Using random assignment and a switching-replications design in a corporate setting, this study compared the effectiveness of two approaches to executive coaching: goal-focused and process-oriented. Goal-focused coaching is based on goal-setting theory, which concentrates on identifying a task to be accomplished, whereas process-oriented c...