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WJG Evers, A Brouwers, W Tomic Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2006
Coaching has become an important managerial instrument of support. However, there is lack of research on its effectiveness. The authors conducted a quasi-experimental study to figure out whether coaching really leads to presupposed individual goals. Sixty managers of the federal government were divided in two groups: one group followed a ...
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A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006
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P Linley, R Biswas-Diener, K Nielsen, R Gillett International Coaching Psychology Review 2010
Objective: In recent years there has been a growing interest in research related to the use of strengths. Although results from past research have consistently suggested that the use of strengths is associated with higher performance and greater well-being there is, as yet, no clear theory describing how using strengths might contribute t...
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R Orenstein Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2006
This article demonstrates that executive coaching efficacy can be measured empirically. It describes the application of C. P. Alderfer's & L. D. Brown's (1972) "Empathic Organic Questionnaire" to executive coaching by summarizing a case in which it was adapted and utilized, by detailing the instrument's construction and administration, an...
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D Peterson, K Kraiger Sage Publications 2004
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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...
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AM Grant, J Passmore, M Cavanagh, HM Parker, others Wiley-Blackwell 2010
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AM Grant, L Curtayne, G Burton The Journal of Positive Psychology 2009
In a randomised controlled study, 41 executives in a public health agency received 360-degree feedback, a half-day leadership workshop, and four individual coaching sessions over 10 weeks. The coaching used a cognitive-behavioural solution-focused approach. Quantitative and qualitative measures were taken. This is the first published rand...
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K Gyllensten, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2005
Work related stress is causing concern and is having negative effects on individuals and organisations
(HSE, 2001). Various interventions are used to reduce workplace stress but this paper proposes that coaching
can be effective
in tackling stress.
Coaching is becoming increasingly
popular and is viewed positively
within
the corp...
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SFA Duijts, I Kant, PA van den Brandt, GMH Swaen Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2008
Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a preventive coaching intervention on sickness absence due to psychosocial health complaints and on general well being of employees.
Methods: Employees at risk for sickness absence were identified and randomized. The intervention group received the preventive coaching program; the control group...
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B Avolio, W Gardner The leadership quarterly 2005
This Special Issue is the result of the inaugural summit hosted by the Gallup Leadership Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004 on Authentic Leadership Development (ALD). We describe in this introduction to the special issue current thinking in this emerging field of research as well as questions and concerns. We begin by...
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MEP Seligman, M Csikszentmihalyi American Psychologist 2000
A science of positive subjective experience, positive individual traits, and positive institutions promises to improve quality of life and prevent the pathologies that arise when life is barren and meaningless. The exclusive focus on pathology that has dominated so much of our discipline results in a model of the human being lacking the p...
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AM Grant, LS Green, J Rynsaardt Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2010
Teachers are in a very real sense the embodiment of leadership, providing direction, guidance, and feedback to their students in addition to acting as role models. Teachers may well thus benefit from developmental coaching that draws on theories of leadership. This study was both an experimental (randomly assigned conditions) and a quasi-...
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B Peltier Taylor & Francis 2001
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W Madden, S Green, AM Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2011
Objective: This pilot study examines the impact of an evidence-based strengths coaching programme on
male primary school students’ levels of engagement and hope.
Design: In a within-subject design study, 38 Year Five male students (mean age 10.7 years) participated
in a strengths-based coaching programme as part of their Personal Devel...
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M Goldsmith International Coaching Psychology Review 2009
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I Susing, LS Green, A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011
Authenticity, or being true to oneself, has been identified as a key construct related to well-being and the
effective performance of leaders. This paper describes the construct of authenticity in the context of existing
positive psychology and coaching psychology research. We discuss the Authenticity Scale and its suggested
use both a...
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