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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...

Developmental coaching: Working with the self

T Bachkirova Open University Press 2011

Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative analysis (Introducing Qualitative Methods Series)

K Charmaz SAGE 2006

`Grounded theory is a highly influential way of working with qualitative data and Kathy Charmaz is a major player, both innovative and fluent. This book is a model student text: lively, carefully argued and full of vivid illustrations. Beginning students and professional researchers will find it to be required reading' - **_David Silverma...

The integration of mindfulness training and health coaching: An exploratory study

GB Spence, MJ Cavanagh, A Grant Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2008

Coaching has attracted much attention from health professionals interested in collaborative, person-centred approaches to motivating behaviour change. Whilst initial research supports the efficacy of coaching in health contexts, more theoretical and empirical work is needed. Based on recent work demonstrating the important role that mindf...

How coaching helps leadership resilience: The leadership perspective

C Lawton-Smith International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: Resilience has grown as a topic of interest to coaches and increases in resilience as a result of specific coaching programmes are often reported (Grant, Curtayne & Burton, 2009). However, the perspective of the coached leaders has remained largely unexplored. This study seeks to gain the leadership perspective on two key a...

Does all coaching enhance objective performance independently evaluated by blind assessors? The importance of the coaching model and content

J Franklin, J Doran International Coaching Psychology Review 2009

Objectives: Despite increasing evidence supportive of the effectiveness of coaching there are no studies which demonstrate that the benefits flow on to improvements in objective performance as assessed by evaluators blind to participation in the coaching. This study examined the efficacy of two coaching programmes on independently asse...