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Positive psychology coaching - A model for coaching practice.

J Passmore, L Oades The Coaching Psychologist 2014

This is the first in a series of papers to look at Positive Psychology Coaching (PPC) as an approach suitable for use with coaching clients. This paper presents a brief overview of PPC for readers who are less familiar with the approach and highlights other sources for a fuller account of PPC. The paper sets the scene for a subsequent ser...

Coaching and mentoring: Theory and practice

B Garvey, P Stokes, D Megginson Sage 2014

Coaching millennial leaders: Life stage versus the times we live in

H Franklin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

This paper presents the findings of a study focused on the experience of coaches when coaching millennial leaders (where millennials are those people born 1980-1999). Following a hermeneutic phenomenological approach using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), four coaches were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. Fi...

Hope theory in coaching: How clients respond to interventions based on Snyder’s theory of hope

T Worgan International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

The concept of hope has infused human culture for millennia and in modern times challenged psychologists’ attempts to define and measure individuals’ level of hope. The beneficial impact of increasing hope to improve physical and mental well-being is a tested therapeutic intervention. However, little research has explored this matter i...

A new frontier of research and practice: Observation of coaching behaviour

S Greif The Coaching Psychologist 2010

This paper gives an overview of recent observation studies of coaching behaviour and the coaching relationship. It follows a keynote at the 2nd European Coaching Psychology Conference, December 2009, in London. Models influencing the research are drawn from studies of the behaviour of psychotherapists that help to understand the effect...

Understanding potential career changers’ experience of career confidence following a positive psychology based coaching programme

S Archer, J Yates Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017

Changes in the labour market over the last decades have led to an increase in the number of career and job changes individuals are likely to face in their working lives. Previous research indicates that a high level of confidence can help individuals to make positive career changes, yet an agreed definition of confidence is not widely acc...

Creating micro closures: Reinventing the psychological transition process to help coachees deal with the current state of disruptive change

F Papakonstantinou Coaching Psychology International 2018

The speed and frequency of change in the world around us is mind boggling at times and people are struggling to find ways to cope with it. Organisations have to constantly reinvent themselves to keep up with this VUCA world, without much success at times, as it is a process of experimentation. This means that people are unable to transiti...