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Executive coaching: Towards a dynamic alliance of psychotherapy and transformative learning processes.

D Gray Management Learning 2006

Coaching is emerging as a major professional development and performance enhancement process. There are, however, few professional development programmes aimed at coaches themselves, and no internationally recognized qualification or professional standard. Much of the literature on coaching has been written by those with a human psycholog...

Business coaching international: Transforming individuals and organizations

S Stout-Rostron Karnac Books 2014

A quantitative study on executive coaching from a learning transfer perspective

E Lord 2010

Psychology's unique contribution to solution-focused coaching: Exploring clients' past to inform their present and design their future

T Kemp Australian Academic Press 2005

Integrating action learning practices into executive coaching to enhance business results

V Vaartjes International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2005

Coaching-based development is growing in prominence as a means of enhancing the achievement of leadership outcomes in Australian business. This article seeks to demonstrate how the application of the practices associated with action learning can be applied to support the achievement of practical outcomes within group-based executive co...

The importance of improvisation in coaching

M Read Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2013

Coaching of employees, executives and organisations is becoming increasingly widespread. Improvisation may be essential to dynamic, interactional relationships such as those found in coaching. This paper introduces improvisation to the coaching literature, measures its importance to coaches and highlights improvisation usage within 12 coa...

The preventative impact of management coaching on psychological strain

A Weinberg International Coaching Psychology Review 2016

Objectives: The positive impact of coaching on a range of outcomes, including the well-being of those in receipt of it, has been highlighted by a number of published reviews (e.g. de Haan & Duckworth, 2013) and meta-analyses (e.g. Jones, Woods & Guillaume, 2015). The objective of this study was to assess the potential for coaching to act ...

A practice analysis of coaching psychology: Toward a foundational competency model

V Vandaveer, R Lowman, K Pearlman, J Brannick Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

This article presents results of an initial, empirically based professional-practice analysis (i.e., “job analysis”) of executive/professional development coaching by psychologists. This project was initiated in 2012 by the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in a coll...

Ethical situations in executive coaching as experienced and evaluated by psychology and non psychology trained coaches

M Sass 2016

The last 20 years has seen a proliferation in the practice of executive coaching despite the limited empirical research about its efficacy. This research focused on ethical issues arising in the practice of business and managerial coaching (“executive coaching”), which had not been extensively examined in coaching literature. The research...

Impact of Executive Coaching on Small Businesses and Franchisees

S Whiteside 2013

The question for this research was: Does executive coaching impact the success of franchisees? Six volunteer franchisees participated in 3-month coaching engagements, where different coaching methods and philosophies were utilized, such as co-active, facilitative, cognitive-behavioral, leadership, and positive as well as other executive c...

The third ‘generation’ of workplace coaching: creating a culture of quality conversations

A Grant Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017

Workplace coaching is increasingly used in organisations. Workplace coaching is conducted internally within an organisation for the purpose of helping employees, managers and leaders attain work-related goals. Workplace coaching methodologies have evolved over time. The first ‘generation’ (1990s) focused on performance management. A hallm...

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...

Coaching C-Suite Executives and Business Founders

W Berman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2019

Founder chief executive officers and senior executives in the world’s largest companies make up a distinct, elite subset of the larger world of executives. They bring a particularly confident style, strategic way of thinking, influencing ability, and sense of authority and power that present unique challenges. When they work with a psycho...

Transformation to academic leadership: The role of mentorship and executive coaching

W Rathmell, N Brown, R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2019

The transition to academic leadership entails learning to utilize an enormous new collection of skills. Executive leadership coaching is a personalized training approach that is being increasingly used to accelerate the onboarding of effective leaders. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has invested in a robust coaching strategy that is...

The anatomy of a longitudinal, embedded consulting and coaching engagement: Case study and conceptual issues.

R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research in Orga... 2019

This paper presents a case study of a longitudinal, embedded consulting and coaching engagement at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (the name of the client organization is used with permission throughout this paper), a top ranked U.S. academic health center, and provides an overview of a set of key conceptual issues involved in cr...