Results - Stream

Transfer of training: A review and directions for future research.

T Baldwin, J Ford Personnel Psychology 1988

Transfer of training is of paramount concern for training researchers and practitioners. Despite research efforts, there is a growing concern over the “transfer problem.” The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique of the existing transfer research and to suggest directions for future research investigations. The conditions of tran...

Coaching understood: A pragmatic inquiry into the coaching process.

E Cox Sage 2013

Executive coaching as a transfer of training tool: Effects on productivity in a public agency.

G Olivero, K Bane, R Kopelman Public personnel management 1997

Examined the effects of executive coaching in a public sector municipal agency. 31 managers underwent a managerial training program, which was followed by 8 wks of 1-on-1 executive coaching. Training increased productivity by 22.4%. The coaching, which included goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback, supervisory i...

Executive coaching: An outcome study.

K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal 2003

While executive coaching continues to mushroom as a practice area, there has been little outcome research. This article presents the results of a study that explored factors influencing the choice of a coach, executives' reactions to working with a coach, the pros and cons of both internal and external coaches, the focus of executive coac...

Coaching: an expensive conversation or a return on investment?

J Cook International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

The Collaborative Action Coaching for Leaders model (Cook, 2011) is designed for the transfer and sustainability of learning from the coaching session to outside that experience: it is a return on investment. The model emanated from a doctoral level research study conducted with leaders from UK voluntary sector organisations: namely Ad...

Coaching and training transfer: A phenomenological inquiry into combined training-coaching programmes.

L Spencer International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

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...

Collaborative action research: the ethical challenges

J Cook International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2010

This article explores some of the ethical challenges that have been addressed primarily in the research design phase of a coaching doctoral research study. The ethical position of the researcher with a dual role of coach is examined as well as the ethical predicaments for the leaders being coached who are also collaborative researchers...