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The role of coachee characteristics in executive coaching for effective sustainability.

G Bozer, J Sarros, J Santora Journal of Management Development 2013

Purpose – Executive coaching is gaining in popularity as a management developmental activity which facilitates organisational change for sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among coachee feedback receptivity, pre‐training motivation, learning goal orientation, developmental self‐efficacy, self‐report...

Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and development

D Kolb Prentice-Hall 1984

Developmental coaching: Working with the self

T Bachkirova Open University Press 2011

Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being

MEP Seligman Simon and Schuster 2012

Coaching Skills: A Handbook

J Rogers Open University Press 2008

Culture and the coaching practitioner: An interview with Dr Alastair Macfarlane

B den Outer International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

Dr Alastair Macfarlane is a management practitioner, consultant and coach in the international domain. In this interview he explains how he takes a holistic approach to the preparation for an international assignment. Macfarlane emphasises the importance in coaching of self-awareness, the ability to reflect and being open to learn, as...

Coaching with a Global Mindset

W Wilson International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

This article reports on a study that assessed professional cross-cultural coaches’ awareness and interpretation of ‘global mindedness’. With focus group discussions as its main data collection method, the grounded-theory study identifies how the criticality of an experience can lead to a transformation of the self and the developmen...

The Evolution of Coaching; patterns, icons and freedom

S Walker International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004

Recent explosions in the range of ‘people-development’ disciplines are necessitating a post hoc task of classification. Whilst inductive and historical methods can be used to trace the distinctions between coaching, counselling, mentoring, therapy etc, they misrepresent crucial aspects of each. Here a conceptual model, ‘personal ecolog...

Pluralistic coaching? An exploration of the potential for a pluralistic approach to coaching

A Pendle International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

The pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy (Cooper & McLeod, 2011) has created controversy in the therapy world but has yet to be explored as a coaching approach. This paper examines coaches' attitudes towards its potential for coaching. Practicing coaches were given a stepped introduction to the approach. Semi-structure...

Expatriation in the Light of Post-Conventional EgoDevelopment: Working with Expatriate Clients in a Developmental Context

E Kiss International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012

This heuristic research study places the phenomenon of expatriation into a developmental context and explores how cultural relocation may contribute towards individuals' post-conventional ego-development. The expansion of the phenomenon due to the accelerated process of globalisation has resulted in an increasing need for a better unde...

Mindfulness-based coaching: Conceptualisation, supporting evidence and emerging applications

M Virgili International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

Purpose: The present paper reviews the scholarly literature on mindfulness and coaching and explores the potential contributions to coaching psychology of empirically supported intervention approaches that are based on or incorporate mindfulness concepts or practices. Method: The main psychological mindfulness intervention approaches a...

The Routledge companion to international business coaching

M Moral, G Abbott Routledge 2009