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Personal and executive coaching: The complete guide for mental health professionals

J Auerbach Executive College Press 2001

The coach-coachee relationship in executive coaching: A field study.

L Baron, L Morin Human Resource Development Quarterly 2009

Numerous authors have suggested that the working relationship between coach and coachee constitutes an essential condition to the success of executive coaching. This study empirically investigated the links between the coach-coachee relationship and the success of a coaching intervention in an organizational setting. Data were collected f...

A survey of executive coaching practices.

D Peterson, J Bono, R Purvanova, A Towler Personnel Psychology 2009

Despite the ubiquity of executive coaching interventions in business organizations, there is little uniformity in the practices (e.g., assessment tools, scientific or philosophical approaches, activities, goals, and outcome evaluation methods) of executive coaches. Addressing the ongoing debate about the role of psychology in executive co...

The Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to Executive Coaching.

M Ducharme Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2004

This article is an attempt to evaluate the appropriateness of the cognitive-behavioral approach for use in executive coaching engagements. The basic tenets of cognitive- behavior therapy, as well as its conceptual underpinnings, are reviewed. Following this, a discussion of how well the goals of executive coaching are met by a cognitive-b...

Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World's Greatest Coaches

M Goldsmith, L Lyons, S McArthur Pfeiffer 2012

Today’s coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed. In this sense, the coach has to become a discriminating eclectic, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which threads are best woven into the fabric ...

Using signature strengths in pursuit of goals: effects on goal progress, need satisfaction, and well-being, and implications for coaching psychologists.

P Linley, R Biswas-Diener, K Nielsen, R Gillett International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objective: In recent years there has been a growing interest in research related to the use of strengths. Although results from past research have consistently suggested that the use of strengths is associated with higher performance and greater well-being there is, as yet, no clear theory describing how using strengths might contribute t...

Seeing beyond the obvious: Executive coaching and IO psychologists.

J Passmore Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Sc... 2009

Rational-emotive behavior therapy: A behavioral change model for executive coaching?

J Sherin, L Caiger Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2004

The authors suggest the use of A. Ellis's (1971, 1994) rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT) as a tool to help clients effect behavioral change in the context of a coaching relationship. The article begins with a brief overview of REBT followed by an argument for its usefulness in an executive coaching context. The authors outline the ...

Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients

A Grant, D Stober John Wiley & Sons 2006

Executive coaching and REBT: Some comments from the field

JP Anderson Journal of rational-emotive and cognitive-behavior therapy 2002

Executive Coaching comprises personal counseling, business advice, and advice about managing for people who are in executive management. This involves a one-to-one helping relationship between coach and client. In each case for which executive coaching is sought, there are problems the client has encountered which requires changes in clie...

Executive coaching can enhance transformational leadership

T Cerni, G Curtis, SH Colmar International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: Epstein's (1998) Cognitive-experiential Self theory (CEST) suggests that all behaviour is guided by two different processing systems—the rational and experiential. This brief report presents results of a study baking at the impact of a 10-week coaching intervention programme based on Epstein's CEST theory on transformational l...

Structuring and understanding the coaching industry: The coaching cube

J Segers, D Vloeberghs, E Henderickx, I Inceoglu Academy of Management Learning \& Education 2011

We offer a theoretical coaching cube that helps to structure and understand the coaching industry. The three dimensions of the cube refer to (1) coaching agendas (what); (2) coaches' characteristics (who); and (3) coaching approaches/schools (how). Each dimension is described by discussing the academic literature surrounding it. Using an ...

Excellence in coaching: The industry guide

J Passmore Kogan Page Publishers 2010

Positive psychology progress: empirical validation of interventions.

MEP Seligman, T Steen, N Park, C Peterson American psychologist 2005

Positive psychology has flourished in the last 5 years. The authors review recent developments in the field, including books, meetings, courses, and conferences. They also discuss the newly created classification of character strengths and virtues, a positive complement to the various editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of M...

Coaching for performance: GROWing People, Perfomance and Purpose

J Whitmore Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2002

From GROW to GROUP: theoretical issues and a practical model for group coaching in organisations

SW Brown, A Grant Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2010

Despite considerable organisational development research and practice suggesting that interventions in organisations should also be targeted at the group level, most organisational coaching is dyadic (one-to-one) and few models of group coaching have been developed. In Part I of this paper we present an introductory overview of group coac...

Ethics, character, and authentic transformational leadership behavior"

BM Bass, P Steidlmeier Leadership Quarterly 1999

The morality of transformational leadership has been sharply questioned, particularly by libertarians, “grass roots” theorists, and organizational development consultants. This paper argues that to be truly transformational, leadership must be grounded in moral foundations. The four components of authentic transformational leadership (...

Coaching in organizations: Current Trends and Future Opportunities

J Bennett, M Bush OD practitioner 2009

Flourishing Youth Provision: The Potential Role of Positive Psychology and Coaching in Enhancing Youth Services

CJC Leach, LS Green, AM Grant International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

This article discusses how positive psychology and evidence-based coaching can support youth service provision in order to promote cross fertilisation between these different domains of practice. The transition from adolescence to adulthood is difficult for many young people and there is growing recognition that there should be a great...

Exceptional executive coaches: Practices and attributes

G Dagley International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Objectives: Human resources (HR) professionals responsible for purchasing executive coaching services represent a unique research resource as independent and invested observers of coaching practices. The research objective was to explore this group’s knowledge to better understand what differentiates the work of exceptional coaches. D...

Coaching at the top: Assisting a chief executive and his team.

M Kralj Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2001

Coaching at the executive level of organizations most often includes a blend of individual, team, and organizational interventions. As psychologists, traditions lead us to rely heavily on our unique expertise in individual assessment and treatment in working for organizational change. To explore the limits of this tradition, this case stu...

Psychometrics in coaching

J Passmore Kogan Page 2008