Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development
D Kolb Prentice-Hall 1984
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This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study into critical moments in the coaching relationship. Interviews were completed with a total of 28 experienced coaches. The research highlighted that critical moments are unforeseen and characterised by intense emotions and anxiety within the coaching relationship. These momen...
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This paper sets out the argument that quite fundamental issues, both theoretical and practical, divide the various approaches to coaching. It does not suggest that any one approach is better or right; each approach would be more appropriate in particular situations. However, by understanding more clearly the nature of the difference betwe...
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Knowledge sharing between employees is a critical success factor in knowledge intensive organisations and depends on the quality of an employee’s relationships with co-workers. Relatively little research has been done on how to incorporate relationship aspects into a coaching intervention. This paper describes an organisational coachi...
Whilst an established aid to personal development, coaching is still in its early stages of maturity. So too, outside of the field of education, is the concept of learning teams. This paper concerns coach development via two complementary coaches working as a learning team when conducting live coaching sessions. It proposes a way ...
Coaching is a rapidly expanding field with interdisciplinary roots and broad application. However, despite abundant prescriptive literature, research into the process of coaching is minimal. Similarly, although learning is inherently recognised in the process of coaching, the process of learning in coaching is little understood and lea...
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences (MI) could be incorporated into a model for coaching and mentoring. The research was conducted through a qualitative study using Action Research. Six coach-mentors worked with six learners and devised interventions to emphasise the MI through th...
Coaching is inherently a reflective process. Constructivist theories of learning are well established and greatly inform thinking on coaching. The coaching practitioner literature promotes activities and offers many tools to aid reflection. While psychology provides some very pertinent theory, a review of practitioner literature finds ...
The aim of the research reported in this paper was to discover if and how transformative learning theory is applied in coaching. Data were collected from eight coaches through semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study revealed four emerging themes: space and context of the coaching environment; the coaching relationship; di...
Integrated Leadership Development Programmes (IDLPs) have become increasingly popular in recent years. These programmes combine different elements such as 360° feedback, experiential learning, group coaching, executive coaching and action learning, over extended periods of many months. Very little independent research exists to show ho...
Evidence continues to suggest that the quarter-life crisis is a prominent experience, yet coaching related literature on the subject is limited. This study develops the understanding of the quarter-life crisis by challenging the potentially outdated work of Erikson (1980) and Levinson (1978). Effective coaching approaches and tools for...
Businesses often turn to coaching to combat under-performance in training transfer, i.e. the translation of learning from training into improved performance in the workplace. This article reports on a phenomenological study of the experiences of seven professional external coaches working on combined training-coaching leadership develo...
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This article discusses the role of professional coaches who apply Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory as a means of enhancing their client’s leadership capabilities. The authors posit that Kolb’s four learning modes and styles provide a guiding structure for professional coaches to individualise their approach to coaching leaders to ov...
This paper is a more elaborate version of a speech given at the 3rd National Conference of the Special Group for Coaching Psychology in 2007. It looks at a diversity of definitions of coaching and executive coaching as well as reviews available research from a business perspective. The executive context has several unique features and ...
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Objectives: This pilot study aimed to investigate whether Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) can be used with A-level students in order to reduce procrastination and avoidance behaviours. Group coaching was used to promote more adaptive thinking patterns, leading to enhanced performance and well-being. Design: A qualitative approach ...
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Objectives: This mixed methods study reviewed the role of coaching in the driver development environment. The study sought to explore the impact of coaching as a learning methodology and to compare this with an instruction-based approach. Design: The study involved a mixed methods sequential design. The first part of the study was a ra...
This paper responds to Grant (this issue), Developing an agenda for teaching coaching psychology. Representatives of key stakeholder groups were asked to respond to the issues raised in Grant’s article. These groups included practicing coaching psychologists, coaches, coach educators, Professional bodies in coaching psychology and corp...
While many senior executives can both afford and benefit from world class external coaching, this may not be an affordable or manageable option for many leaders in large organizations. Developing a cadre of internal coaches has the benefits of: (1) cost containment; (2) internal capacity to create a coaching culture; and (3) coaches ma...
What does it mean to be a ‘coaching psychologist’? At the turn of this century, the phrases ‘coaching psychology’ and ‘coaching psychologist’ had rarely been conceived and infrequently used. Here, in 2008, we find an emergent profession of Coaching Psychology and with thousands of practitioners spread across the globe, characterised by...
Background: The Understanding Group and Leader (UGL), provided by the Swedish National Defense College and mentored by UGL-trainers, is one of the most popular management programs among civilians in Sweden. However, there is a lack of scientific evidence regarding the training. We used the affective profile model (i.e., the combination ...
The impact of critical experience on international executives can have serious consequences, assignments may fail. So coaching support may enhance their psychological capital and global competencies. This small heuristic study involved five co-researchers specialised in coaching international executives across the world on career and lead...
Mentoring schemes continue to increase within organisations and rely on attracting and retaining motivated volunteers. At the same time, mentoring is also becoming embedded within professional frameworks and discipline experts are being enlisted in formal schemes to widen their involvement in supporting novices in their professional devel...
Coaching supervision is a prerequisite for accreditation of executive coaches by coaching associations in the UK. However, there is still considerable skepticism, caution, even ignorance about the nature and purpose of coaching supervision and many coaches do not engage. The aim of this action research was to explore what happens in the c...
In this article, the authors describe a novel approach to coaching and leadership development that uses a holistic model, Integral Intelligence™, to generate significant expansion of the capacity and capability of leaders and their teams. Examples from their experience working with thirty leaders from the west division of Comcast Communic...
The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara is among a small cadre of coach training and learning organizations in North America emerging in the late 80’s and early 90’s, each with roots in specific fields of study and applied theoretical orientations. Like others, the Hudson Institute began building its coach training and education programs wh...
This paper explores the impact of philosophical thinking on coaching practice. In particular it looks at the epistemology of Socrates (via the writing of Plato), Locke, Hume, Kant, and Dewey. Key concepts from each philosopher are introduced and the ways in which their thinking informs modern coaching practice are explored. In this articl...
This largely autoethnographic paper explores the early trajectory of one consultant’s career through the seventies and eighties, seeking to detect the point at which this practice took the ‘coaching turn’. The purpose of conducting this piece of personal exploration is to discover what the core of a ‘coach approach’ might have comprised b...
This article draws on the researcher’s collective research and experience in using peer coaching as a strategy to improve professional and performance learning over the past 20+ years. This work has influenced training approaches to learning in the health industry as well as in corporate leadership training. By exploring the concept throu...
This paper explores the value of coaching in organisations. Assessing the impact of coaching through typical effectiveness measures may identify measurable outcomes, but risks missing the contribution of intangible and unplanned outcomes. Using grounded theory methodology, this qualitative study amalgamated perspectives on the value of co...
This paper explores the value of coaching in organisations. Assessing the impact of coaching through typical effectiveness measures may identify measurable outcomes, but risks missing the contribution of intangible and unplanned outcomes. Using grounded theory methodology, this qualitative study amalgamated perspectives on the value of co...
Coaching supervision is now a prerequisite for accreditation of executive coaches by coaching associations in the UK. However, there is still considerable scepticism, caution, even ignorance about the nature and purpose of coaching supervision and many coaches still do not engage in this practice. The aim of this Action Research Project ...
(Self) reflection is an essential part of coaching, the personal and professional development of a coach. Sometimes (self) reflection comes easily: we have several thoughts about a session. But sometimes it is hard: our insights seems to be dried out. In such cases it is useful to have a technique to spring the stream of thoughts (or to e...
Coaching supervision is an emerging profession with a need of developing its knowledge base. However, there is a lack of understanding of the supervision process from the coaching supervisees’ perspective, a crucial element without which issues and debates about coaching supervision are incomplete. Furthermore, although most of the profes...
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This case study explores the value of high potential coaching as part of a leadership development programme. As empirical and participant-based research for coaching (effectiveness) in a talent management context is scarce, both participant and organisation perspectives were explored. This research shows that the coaching readiness of pa...
Peer mentoring is commonly used for didactical and learning purposes. In this study we examine peer group mentoring in the university context. The aim is to promote understanding of peer group mentoring based on a meta-analysis of two primary studies: teacher students and teacher group tutors. As a result, three core categories were fou...
This paper tracks a practitioner’s journey through his attempts to understand the nature of neurolinguistic programming (NLP). It draws from the author’s self-study, being both a master NLP trainer and a chartered psychologist and also from the author’s own PhD research, (Grimley, 2016) which explicitly asked the question ‘What is NLP?’ T...
The challenges of entrepreneurship make learning integral to the entrepreneurial process. However, many entrepreneurs work in relative isolation and lack opportunities to engage with peers in ways that promote meaningful reflection and learning. This study explores the experience of group coaching as a setting for meaningful learning and ...
The literature on reflection, awareness, and self-regulation provides theoretical and empirical fruit for understanding self-processing mechanisms that enhance learning, growth, and performance. A literature review was conducted to explore the potential of reflection, awareness, and self-regulation as developmental tools for coaches. Fro...
Every coach is on a journey. The moment they enter a coach training programme or begin coaching, they enter a path of exploration with clients as well as beginning self-exploration, discernment and experiencing profound shifts. This study investigates that journey through the lens of professional development, expertise, and a way of being...