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Forty things every manager should know about coaching.

J Burdett Journal of Management Development 1998

Does coaching work? A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context.

T Theeboom, B Beersma, AEM van Vianen The Journal of Positive Psychology 2014

Whereas coaching is very popular as a management tool, research on coaching effectiveness is lagging behind. Moreover, the studies on coaching that are currently available have focused on a large variety of processes and outcome measures and generally lack a firm theoretical foundation. With the meta-analysis presented in this article, we...

Coaching and the art of management

R Evered, J Selman Organizational Dynamics 1989

Manager coaching skills: Development and application

S Graham, J Wedman, B Garvin--Kester Performance Improvement Quarterly 1993

The concept of “manager as coach” is increasingly popular in the management literature as a mechanism for improving employee involvement and performance. This paper summarizes a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a “coaching skills” program for sales managers. The program began with a five–day coaching skills course and was followed b...

The Wild West of Executive Coaching

S Sherman, A Freas Harvard Business Review 2004

The Efficacy of Executive Coaching in Times of Organisational Change

AM Grant Journal of Change Management 2014

ROI is a poor measure of coaching success: towards a more holistic approach using a well-being and engagement framework

A Grant 2012

Executive coaching enhances goal attainment, resilience and workplace well-being: A randomised controlled study

AM Grant, L Curtayne, G Burton The Journal of Positive Psychology 2009

In a randomised controlled study, 41 executives in a public health agency received 360-degree feedback, a half-day leadership workshop, and four individual coaching sessions over 10 weeks. The coaching used a cognitive-behavioural solution-focused approach. Quantitative and qualitative measures were taken. This is the first published rand...

Working with emotional intelligence

D Goleman Bantam 1998

Management Development-The Next Decade

A Barratt Journal of Management Development 1985

Working with executives: Consulting, counseling, and coaching.

L Sperry Individual Psychology: Journal of Adlerian Theory, Research ... 1993

Describes the inner world and needs of today's executives and how psychologists and psychiatrists can respond to their need for consulting, coaching, and counseling. Profiles of the healthy, distressed, and impaired executive are sketched, and 3 types of services are described: executive consulting, executive counseling, and executive coa...

Management Development Roles: Coach, Sponsor and Mentor.

C Atkinson, others Personnel Journal 1980

In a dynamic management development program, effective managers can be trained by other employees enacting the roles of coaches, sponsors, and mentors. By encouraging these relationships, the organization can produce better managers in a less random way.

Developmental coaching for high school teachers: Executive coaching goes to school.

AM Grant, LS Green, J Rynsaardt Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2010

Teachers are in a very real sense the embodiment of leadership, providing direction, guidance, and feedback to their students in addition to acting as role models. Teachers may well thus benefit from developmental coaching that draws on theories of leadership. This study was both an experimental (randomly assigned conditions) and a quasi-...

Coaching clients to manage depression

R McBrien The Personnel and Guidance Journal 1981

The author presents a system of behavioral techniques that permits clients to manage their own depression. By coaching clients through the sequence of self-management procedures identified by Kahn (1976) and using the strategies offered by Lewinsohn (1975), counselors have an effective set of techniques to lead clients to successful copin...

Coaching and counseling: How you can improve the way it's done.

VR Buzzotta, RE Lefton, M Sherberg Training & Development Journal 1977

Notes that training and advising are among the most difficult jobs confronting any manager. Professional trainers can help the manager by distinguishing 4 basic ways of counseling based on 2 fundamental dimensions, dominance–submission and hostility–warmth. In quadrant 4, where dominance and warmth meet, real communication occurs between ...

Developing the leader as coach: insights, strategies and tips for embedding coaching skills in the workplace

A Grant, M Hartley Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2013

This article presents some practical insights, strategies and tips about how to help organisations embed leadership coaching skills in the workplace following participation by executives and managers in ‘Leader as Coach’ development programs. Given that organisations globally are increasingly using such programs as part of leadership deve...

Executive coaching that wins

JH Eggers, D Clark Ivey Business Journal 2000

Professional Challenges Facing the Coaching Field From an Historical Perspective

V Brock International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2009

Coaching emerged during the postmodern period of the late twentieth century, born of a rapidly changing socioeconomic environment and nourished by the root disciplines of psychology, business, sports, and adult education. Now, approximately twenty years later, as we look forward to the professional challenges the field is facing today, we...

An exploration of playfulness in coaching

S Wheeler International Coaching Psychology Review 2020

Objective: In light of sparse direct empirical research on adult playfulness in coaching, the objective of this study was to explore playfulness and raise awareness of its presence, requirements, effects, barriers and risks in coaching. Design: This exploratory, inductive qualitative study using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2013) ...

Applying the Lens of Social Movements to Coaching and Mentoring

J Gannon Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2021

The rise and development of coaching and mentoring in recent decades has led to a plethora of debates around their theoretical and disciplinary roots. Alongside these debates are deliberations about the role of coaching and mentoring in contemporary threats, such as the financial crisis, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, as we...