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

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

Using coaching to enhance the effects of behavioral feedback to managers

S Kochanowski, C Seifert, G Yukl Journal of Leadership \& Organizational Studies 2010

A field experiment was conducted to assess whether coaching would enhance the effectiveness of a feedback workshop for store managers in a regional supermarket chain. The experimental group of managers received individual coaching several weeks after attending a feedback workshop. The control group of managers also attended a feedback wor...

Executive coaching can enhance transformational leadership

T Cerni, G Curtis, SH Colmar International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: Epstein's (1998) Cognitive-experiential Self theory (CEST) suggests that all behaviour is guided by two different processing systems—the rational and experiential. This brief report presents results of a study baking at the impact of a 10-week coaching intervention programme based on Epstein's CEST theory on transformational l...

Personal life coaching for coaches-in-training enhances goal attainment, insight and learning

AM Grant Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2008

Evidence-based approaches to coach training and education are vital if the coaching industry is to continue to mature. Drawing on past research on mandatory personal therapy for therapists-in-training, this paper reports a qualitative and quantitative within-subject exploration of the impact of compulsory participation in a personal life ...

Managerial coaching behaviors in learning organizations

AD Ellinger, RP Bostrom Journal of Management Development 1999

Limited published research has examined the role of leaders and managers in building learning capability and learning organizations. It is speculated that leaders and managers will assume roles such as facilitators of learning, coaches, and teachers. However, these roles and the micro‐behaviors manifested in them remain an area that has n...

What can Sydney tell us about coaching? Research with implications for practice from down under

A Grant Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

This paper details material from 2 presentations given at the 2015 Society of Consulting Psychology Mid-Winter Conference in San Diego, California, which presented a summary of the coaching research conducted at the Coaching Psychology Unit (CPU) at the University of Sydney. The CPU was established in 1999 with a mission to enhance the pe...

Performance coaching in sport, music, and business: From Gallwey to Grant, and the promise of positive psychology

A Mouton International Coaching Psychology Review 2016

The purpose of this paper is to explore performance coaching in sport, music, and business. The paper begins by describing some of the popular, lay methods used by coaches in each field, many influenced by The Inner Game books of Timothy Gallwey. Next, the paper discusses the scientifically grounded theories, principles, and methods that ...