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Executive leadership: A practical guide to managing complexity

E Jaques, SD Clement Cason Hall 1991

Leaders coaching across borders

M Hicks, DB Peterson Advances in global leadership 1999

Leaders are increasingly relying on developmental coaching to equip their people to sustain competitive advantage and stay abreast of change. While coaching across cultural borders poses many challenges that leaders need to consider, a core of practical coaching strategies offers them the greatest leverage for change in any circumstanc...

Coaching and consulting in multicultural contexts: Integrating themes and issues.

R Lowman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2007

This article reviews a series of articles in a special section on "Coaching and Consulting in Multicultural Contexts." It identifies overlapping themes and issues (e.g., the role of perception, culture, pragmatic wisdom, and trust in coaching), as well as issues still to be addressed. It is argued that much work remains to be done to esta...

"I tried so many diets, now I want to do it differently"—A single case study on coaching for weight loss

R Stelter International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and W... 2015

In this single case study, the author presented an in-depth description and analysis of a coaching intervention with focus on weight loss, conducted over 10 sessions in the course of 17 months. The client was a well-educated woman in her late 30s, who had tried many different forms of dieting over the years*with little and no lasting effe...

Managerial coaching: A concept analysis

V Batson, L Yoder Journal of Advanced Nursing 2012

Aim.  This article presents a report of a concept analysis of managerial coaching. Backgound.  Managerial coaching has been identified as a means for managers to give support to staff nurses, however, no clear delineation of what behaviours and attributes constitute managerial coaching or differentiate it from other career development ...

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...

Conversational mapping: Coaching others (and ourselves) to better have difficult conversations

A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2017

Holding difficult or important conversations is, by definition, not easy. Not surprisingly a common scenario faced by managers, leaders and professional coaches is coaching people on how to best conduct difficult or important conversations. The vast number of detailed books and courses on how to hold these kinds of conversations is a test...

What Does Effective Behaviour Look Like In A Conversation To Support Acquisition Of New Skills That Ultimately Lead To Better Productivity And Performance?

J Curran EMCC Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference 2017

The purpose of this paper is to introduce verbal behavioural analysis as a methodology for identifying effective coaching behaviour within different coaching contexts. The paper presents research results that illustrate the impact of different coaching styles and relates them to a coaching context model to provide coaches with a framework...

Managerial coaching – A literature review

P Lawrence International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

The term managerial coaching is often used to describe the leader’s role in developing people, but views differ as to the optimal process by which this is achieved. Although managerial coaching is often regarded as a ‘cut down’ or simplified version of external coaching, it is suggested here that the role of the managerial coach is, in ma...

Presence in Executive Coaching Conversations – The C2 Model

R Noon International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2018

Presence is considered by the practitioner community to be a key factor in coaching effectiveness and is recognised as an important coaching competence. Yet to date, there has been little formal research into this phenomenon in executive coaching. By adopting a constructivist stance, this qualitative study uses the methodology of conceptu...

Personal Transformation: Developing Self-Processing Competence Through Coaching

L Steyn, A Barnard International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2024

This study employed a qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological approach to explore personal transformation and how it manifests in the coaching process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven senior leaders who had previously engaged in a coaching programme of at least six sessions. The findings describe personal transforma...