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Building business success: a case study of small business coaching

S Porter Industrial and Commercial Training 2000

This article describes a project and the resulting programme to help small businesses to survive and grow through the use of business coaching. It also describes the use of the programme in an actual case study of business coaching. The programme seeks to give the owner/managers of small businesses expert, practical and cost‐effective gui...

Coaching for results

P King, J Eaton Industrial and commercial training 1999

Traditional training teaches specific skills and concepts often in a series of discrete and ultimately disjointed processes. Coaching, on the other hand, is an open‐ended process that analyses the present situation, defines the performance goal, combines personal, organizational and external resources and then implements a plan for achiev...

Coaching for results

B Bivens The Journal for Quality and Participation 1996

Eight things you should know about business coaching before contracting for service

DL Sanders Employment Relations Today 1996

Key characteristics of the commercial Australian executive coach training industry.

A Grant, B O'Hara International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Objectives: To identify organisations who offer executive coach training and business coach training in Australia; assessment processes, cost and duration of courses; the delineation between coaching and counselling; marketing claims made; and the qualifications of the owners and trainers. Design: A qualitative process of emergent them...

Coaching and positive psychology.

M Seligman Australian Psychologist 2007

The State of Play in Coaching Today: A Comprehensive Review of the Field

AM Grant, J Passmore, M Cavanagh, HM Parker, others Wiley-Blackwell 2010

An exploratory study of Australian executive coaches

T Binstead, AM Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Objectives: This exploratory study sought to extend the limited knowledge base about the executive coaching industry in Australia. Design: A qualitative process of emergent thematic coding using information from participants. Methods: 28 Australian executive coaches were interviewed using a qualitative conversational interviewing meth...

Ethics in coaching: An ethical decision making framework for coaching psychologists

M Duffy, J Passmore International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: This paper explores the process of ethical decision making in coaching psychology. The paper seeks to develop a suitable model for application in coaching psychology to complement existing codes of practice. The model of course can be adjusted for use by coaching practitioners. Design: The study used a semi-structured inter...

Developmental coaching: Business benefit--fact or fad? An evaluative study to explore the impact of coaching in the workplace

E Leonard-Cross International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: To contribute to research on the return on investment and business benefit of workplace coaching by using a quasi-experimental design. Specifically, to investigate the impact that in-house coaches, using developmental coaching approaches, had on levels of coachee self-efficacy. Design: The study used action research (Lewin,...

‘If I learn do we learn?’: The link between executive coaching and organizational learning

J Swart, J Harcup Management Learning 2013

This article contributes to the organizational learning literature by providing empirical evidence of how coaching enables the translation from individual learning into collective learning, i.e. enacting behaviours, enacting a coaching approach and embedding collective learning processes. It draws on interview data gathered in two law fir...

Conceptualizing coaching as an approach to management and organizational development

C Bond, M Seneque Journal of Management Development 2013

Purpose – Recent debates within the literature and amongst practitioners of coaching have been focussed on defining the scope and practice of coaching as a form of organizational intervention that can facilitate organizational and individual change. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate about what coaching is by reviewi...

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...