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Coaching for change

J Bennett, M Bush Routledge 2014

Health coaching to facilitate the promotion of healthy behaviour and achievement of health-related goals.

S Palmer, I Tubbs, A Whybrow International Journal of Health Promotion and Education 2003

Coaching and therapy: Similarities and divergences.

E Spinelli Psychotherapy in Australia 2010

It remains unclear as to what activities are referred to by the term 'coaching'. Amidst many different conceptualisations of the term, there is no agreement to date on its definition. Ernesto Spinelli provides a critical overview of the similarities and differences between coaching and therapy. While all manner of distinctions have been m...

Coaching and mentoring: Theory and practice

B Garvey, P Stokes, D Megginson Sage 2014

Business coaching international: Transforming individuals and organizations

S Stout-Rostron Karnac Books 2014

Relationship Coaching

Y Ives Taylor & Francis 2011

A bridge over troubled water: bringing together coaching and counselling

T Bachkirova, E Cox The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching 2004

This article addresses the issue of forced estrangement between coaching and counselling. The separation between the two fields is explored and the consequences of this for coaching in particular as a newly established profession are discussed. It will be suggested that the source of differences and similarities between various types of ‘...

An HR perspective on executive coaching for organisational learning

A Walker-Fraser International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

The qualitative research study on which this article is based is an enquiry into the meaning and essences of the executive coaching-organizational learning phenomenon, as a social construct of the lived experiences and perceptions of HR professionals. The findings suggest a need to place executive coaching within an organization’s syst...

The significance of behavioural learning theory to the development of effective coaching practice.

D Peel International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2005

This paper outlines the potential significance of behaviourism and its impact on developing effective coaching practice. Its purpose is threefold: firstly, it addresses the issues resonating from the critique of behaviourism, which focuses on its limited understanding and application within the coaching community. This is interesting g...

The value of openness in e-relationships: using Nonviolent Communication to guide online coaching and mentoring

P Dannahy, E Cox International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2005

This paper explores the use of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) as a way of developing the openness needed for successful communication in e-mentoring relationships. Using a case study approach research was undertaken with students participating in an online mentoring module that forms part of a Masters degree at a British university. Th...

Coaching and Mentoring in Small to Medium Sized Enterprises in the UK – factors that affect success and a possible solution.

D Peel International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004

This paper, adopts a case study approach in order to examine the issues relating to the deployment of a coaching and mentoring intervention within the context of a specific UK based small and medium-sized enterprise (SME). The SME coaching and mentoring research agenda is highlighted as an area urgently needing attention given its econ...

Coaching and Spiritual Values in the Workplace: exploring the perspective of coaches.

A Griffiths International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2010

This study explores coaching and Spiritual Values (SV) in the workplace through the coach’s perspective, using a qualitative research method based on an interpretative phenomenological approach (IPA). Data was collected from seven coaches through semi-structured interviews and from previous research using meta-ethnography. Data from th...

Hestia and Coaching: Speaking to the ‘hearth’ of the matter

H Armstrong International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

As many reasons are put forward for the rapid proliferation of executive coaching as there are sceptics who believe it is a passing fad. This paper, after analysing the results of recent research into coaching’s effectiveness, proposes that it may be serving a more significant space than one would imagine. Coaching is not simply about ...

The proposal to establish a Special Group in Coaching Psychology

S Palmer, A Whybrow The Coaching Psychologist 2005

A large majority of Society members who voted for or against the proposal to set up a Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) did not actually see the proposal on which they were voting. This is just an anomaly of the way subsystems are set up within the Society. We have 14 versions of the working document which gradually changed a...

Differences between critical moments for clients, coaches, and sponsors of coaching

E de Haan, C Niess International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: Previous studies on the effectiveness of coaching have focused on positive outcomes that clients, coaches and organisational colleagues attribute to engaging in coaching overall. In this study descriptions of critical moments of coaching as experienced by executive coaching clients, their coaches and their sponsors are anal...

An invitation to personal construct coaching: From personal construct therapy to personal construct coaching

D Stojnov, J Pavlovic International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Strong efforts have recently been made in various therapeutic approaches to adapt their clinical procedures and become more suitable for working with healthy and high achieving persons. The main argument of this paper is that Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) stood for a coaching psychology long before the term ‘coaching’ gained popu...

Coaching for Emancipation: A framework for coaching in oppressive environments

H Shoukry International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016

While coaching is establishing itself as an effective human development approach, there is limited understanding of the dynamics of coaching in the context of oppression. This paper summarises a study that examined the use of coaching as an emancipatory approach, and explored how oppression affects coachees, coaches and the coaching proce...

The Chronological Development of Coaching and Mentoring: Side by Side Disciplines

R Koopman, P Englis, M Ehrenhard, A Groen International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2021

Interest in coaching and mentoring has increased over the past decades. However, confusion about what is meant in practice and in the literature and the lack of sound definitions makes it hard to research the antecedents and outcomes of both concepts. We show that coaching and mentoring share a lot, but they are often treated as separate...