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Coaching from a systemic perspective: A complex adaptive conversation.

M Cavanagh John Wiley & Sons 2006

Toward a profession of coaching: Sixty-five years of progress and challenges for the future.

M Cavanagh, A Grant International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004

The coaching industry has reached a key important point in its maturation. This maturation is being driven by at least three interrelated forces: (1) accumulated coaching experience; (2) the increasing entry of professionals into coaching from a wide variety of prior backgrounds; and (3) the increasing sophistication of management and ...

An integrative goal-focused approach to executive coaching.

A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006

Your Executive Coaching Solution

J Kofodimos Davies-black Publishing 2007

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...

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...

The Relative Effectiveness of External, Peer, and Self-Coaches

C Sue-Chan, G Latham Applied Psychology 2004

Two studies in two different continents using two different dependent variables examined the relative effectiveness of external, peer, and self-coaches on the performance of participants in two MBA programs. The first study involved MBA students in Canada (n= 30). Those who were coached by an external coach exhibited higher teamplaying be...

Does coaching work or are we asking the wrong question?

A Fillery-Travis, D Lane International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

Within the context of an expanding market for coaching in all its forms organisations are asking the questions ‘Does coaching work?’ They seek evidence of a return on investment. We argue within this paper that this is the wrong question. Before we can ask whether coaching works we must ask how is it being used, is a coherent framework of...

Signalling a new trend in executive coaching outcome research

E de Haan, A Duckworth International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

Purpose: This contribution argues for a new way of studying executive-coaching outcome. The argument accepts that we are not likely to get rigorous data on coaching outcome from well-designed clinical trials in the near future, and assumes a degree of effectiveness that is based upon the first indications and the more rigorous studies ...

A Guide to Third Generation Coaching

R Stelter New York 2012

Medical Careers and Coaching – an Exploratory Study

J Reid International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012

Recent changes to medical career pathways have resulted in the introduction of a range of career support activities by medical education organisations. This doctoral research took a case study approach to consider how coaching can support doctors to make career choices. Data was collected through interviews with 18 participants. The fi...

Coaching and training transfer: A phenomenological inquiry into combined training-coaching programmes.

L Spencer International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

Businesses often turn to coaching to combat under-performance in training transfer, i.e. the translation of learning from training into improved performance in the workplace. This article reports on a phenomenological study of the experiences of seven professional external coaches working on combined training-coaching leadership develo...

The challenges of researching executive coaching

V Ellam-Dyson, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2008

With the push for evidence based practice in the coaching and coaching psychology fields, the research base of studies measuring the effects of coaching is increasing. However, despite the increase in coaching research there is still a lack of studies using randomised controlled trials (RCT). This article discusses some of the difficul...

The long-term independently assessed benefits of coaching: A controlled 18-month follow-up study of two methods

J Franklin, A Franklin International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

Objectives: An earlier study by Franklin and Doran (2009) provided the first evidence that coaching benefits objective performance as assessed by evaluators’ blind to participation in coaching. This study examines the efficacy of two coaching programmes on independently evaluated academic performance 12 and 18 months after the completi...

Moderating factors of the Van Egmond Coaching Model (VECM)

J Bouwer, J van Egmond International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

Objectives: Identifying those (moderating) factors that are instrumental in the successful completion of a coaching trajectory that is based on the Van Egmond Coaching Model (VECM). Design: Qualitative. Methods: Data were collected by means of three questionnaires: a semi-structured questionnaire for the clients; a semi-structured que...

Does all coaching enhance objective performance independently evaluated by blind assessors? The importance of the coaching model and content

J Franklin, J Doran International Coaching Psychology Review 2009

Objectives: Despite increasing evidence supportive of the effectiveness of coaching there are no studies which demonstrate that the benefits flow on to improvements in objective performance as assessed by evaluators blind to participation in the coaching. This study examined the efficacy of two coaching programmes on independently asse...

Teachers’ experiences of an introductory coaching training workshop in Scotland: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

M Barr, C van Nieuwerburgh International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: This study sought to explore teachers’ experiences of a coaching psychology intervention – an introductory coaching training workshop that included a positive psychology intervention and episodes of narrative-collaborative group coaching. Design: A qualitative design was applied to explore the participants’ experiences. Int...

Using Clean Language to explore the subjectivity of coachees’ experience and outcomes

S Linder-Pelz, J Lawley International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how coachees experience and evaluate coaching. First, we explore the use of ‘Clean Language’ as a phenomenological approach to coaching research, including the eliciting and analysing of data into findings and insights for coaches and coach tr...

Executive coaching: The age factor

L Tamir, L Finfer Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

Lifespan psychology suggests that executives in their 30s, 40s, and 50s represent different maturational levels and professional experience. To date, research has not explored the relationship between the age of an executive and the coaching process or coaching outcomes. We hypothesized that executives in these age ranges would respond di...

Develop yourself, develop others? How coaches and clients benefit from train-the-coach courses

S Jordan, S Gessnitzer, S Kauffeld Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017

The majority of the numerous train-the-coach courses in the growing coaching market are not evidence-based and evaluate neither the personal development of coaches during these courses nor their effects on clients’ subsequent coaching success. The aim of our study was to investigate the development of coaches’ career-related variables dur...

The unsolved value of executive coaching: A meta-analysis of outcomes using randomised control trial studies

D Burt, Z Talati International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

Methodology and research supporting coaching’s effectiveness has not kept up with its growth and demand. The current literature on coaching is lacking sufficient empirical rigour and does not meet the standard required for mixed methods design. This metaanalysis investigated the outcomes of coaching, and potential moderating effects of ot...

Organisational Coaching Outcomes: A comparison of a practitioner survey and key findings from the literature

S Boysen, M Cherry, W Amerie, M Takagawa International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2018

This paper compares the measurements of organisational outcomes from executive and leadership coaching based on existing studies and research that has been conducted throughout the literature. An overview of executive and leadership coaching is provided and a case study measuring executive and leadership coaching effectiveness is reported...

How the participants experienced a coaching intervention conducted during company restructure and retrenchment: a qualitative research study using interpretative phenomenological analysis

V Nanduri Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2018

Company restructure and retrenchment is a sensitive issue for all affected as well as involved, to adopt various strategies to deal with this situation. The use of a coaching intervention as a support strategy in this situation has not been given much attention in practice. In this paper the practitioner-researcher presents the details of...

Coaching Effectiveness: Coach and Coachee Characteristics that Lead to Success

S Boysen-Rotelli Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2018

Today, coaching serves as a common and widely employed leadership development and organizational performance enhancement intervention. The literature shows that coaching produces positive outcomes, yet far less is known about how these positive outcomes are produced. This study organizes what is known to date, as represented in the schola...