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Coaching for Action: A Report on Long-Term Advising in a Program Context.

VA Guthrie Center for Creative Leadership 1999

This report discusses ways to enhance leadership development in the work setting. It describes a type of advocate role, called process advisor (PA), that was developed specifically for individuals undergoing developmental experiences in a leadership program. The PA concept helps advisees learn with and from the PA, allowing advisees to be...

Coaching champions

MA Fitzpatrick Nursing management 2001

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 for creativity, imagination, and innovation

J Jagiello 3rd Art of Management and Organisation Conference 2006

The Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) has acknowledged the rise of coaching, and has developed a set of standards to guide the coaching profession. The aim of this discussion paper is to explore the potential of creative coaching. What it could offer professional practitioners, and to investigate what professionals unders...

A quantitative study on executive coaching from a learning transfer perspective

E Lord 2010

The handbook of knowledge-based coaching: from theory to practice

L Wildflower, D Brennan John Wiley & Sons 2011

Literature review of coaching supervision

B Moyes International Coaching Psychology Review 2009

Purpose and Methods: It is an interesting paradox that although coaches are expected to have supervision, little is known about coaching supervision. Coaching supervision has its roots in supervision in the therapeutic disciplines. The aim of this paper is to explore some of the key themes in the literature on supervision in those disc...

Life coaching in the workplace

J Sparrow International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Objectives: There is increasing recognition of coaching’s situated nature. Different emphases in coaching are being utilised in different contexts with differing performance expectations. Life coaching has witnessed rapid growth within the last five years, primarily outside but increasingly within the workplace. The objective of this r...

A Trojan Horse? The Implications of Managerial Coaching for Leadership Theory

V Anderson Human Resource Development International 2013

This paper examines the behaviours associated with managerial coaching and assesses the implications for leadership theory. Survey data from 521 line-managers are analysed to: identify the behaviours associated with managerial coaching; examine factors that affect the propensity of managers to undertake coaching; and discuss the impli...

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...