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A languishing-flourishing model of goal striving and mental health for coaching populations.

A Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Coaching focuses both on facilitating goal attainment and enhancing well-being. Yet there has been little work on developing models that integrate mental health/illness issues with goal striving. This is important because many distinctions between coaching and therapy have been based on the supposed differing levels of psychopathology ...

Evidence-based coaching: Flourishing or languishing?.

M Cavanagh, A Grant Australian Psychologist 2007

Coaching and coaching psychology offer a potential platform for an applied positive psychology and for facilitating individual, organisational and social change. Experts from around the world were invited to comment on the emerging discipline of coaching psychology and the commercial coaching industry. Several key themes emerged including...

Coaching services: A look at coaches, clients, and practices.

A Liljenstrand, D Nebeker Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008

Coaching is growing rapidly as a way to help individuals improve their professional and/or personal success. Although similar services have been offered for some time, coaching is becoming more widely available and is being offered by a more diverse set of professionals. This research was undertaken to learn more about coaches from varyin...

Hidden in plain sight: The active ingredients of executive coaching.

D McKenna, SL Davis Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Sc... 2009

We propose that I/O psychologists who coach executives have overlooked psychotherapy outcome research as a source of information and ideas that can be used to improve our executive coaching practices. This research, based on thousands of studies and many meta-analyses, has converged on the conclusion that four ‘‘active ingredients’’ accou...

The Ideological Foundations of the Adaptive Coaching Model: A Research-Based Approach to Improving Coaching Results

T Bacon Proceedings of the Third Coaching Research Symposium 2005

Executive coaching: A critical review and recommendations for advancing the practice.

DB Peterson A.P.A handbook of industrial and organizational psychology. ... 2011

Executive coaching has exploded in popularity over the past decade and has many passionate advocates, including coaches, participants who have personally benefited from coaching, and their organizational sponsors who have seen the transformational power of coaching firsthand. Yet there is still considerable debate about such fundamental i...

Enhancing goal self-concordance through coaching

D Burke, PA Linley International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Objectives: Research shows that self-concordant goals are more readily pursued, better achieved, and their attainment can lead to increases in well-being. This study assesses whether executive coaching in turn affects self-concordance. Design: We hypothesised that the heightened awareness produced by coaching leads to changes in self-...

Coaching the alpha male

K Ludeman, E Erlandson harvard business review 2004

Reappraising the coach-client relationship: The unassuming change agent in coaching

A O’Broin, S Palmer Routledge 2007

Self-management and the coaching relationship: Exploring coaching impact beyond models and methods.

T Kemp International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Whilst there is growing interest within the emerging coaching psychology literature in exploring specific coaching methods and their relative efficacies, little attention has been afforded the investigation of the relationship itself that is formed between coach and client. In addition, any exploration of the personality, psychodynamic...

Measuring and maximizing the business impact of executive coaching.

A Levenson Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2009

This article addresses the conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring the business impact of executive coaching. A framework is introduced for identifying the business impacts of coaching. An application of the framework is presented using exploratory study data from 12 matched coach-coachee pairs showing varying degrees o...

Psychological dimensions of executive coaching

P Bluckert McGraw-Hill Education (UK) 2006

Is it time to REGROW the GROW model? Issues related to teaching coaching session structures.

A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2011

Although models of how to structure coaching sessions are widely taught in coach training programmes there has been little or no debate in the literature about the use of session structures, the teaching of them, or the relative advantages or disadvantage of different specific session structure frameworks, and there have been few links...

Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision, Skills and Development

P Hawkins, N Smith McGraw-Hill Education (UK) 2013

An Integrated Model of Goal-Focused Coaching: An evidence-based framework for teaching and practice

A Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

There is a considerable body of literature on goals and goal setting in the psychological literature, but little of this has found its way into the scholarly coaching literature. This article draws on the goal-setting literature from the behavioural sciences. It discusses a range of approaches to understanding the goal construct, prese...

Reflection, note-taking and coaching: If it ain’t written, it ain’t coaching!

A Grant The Coaching Psychologist 2016

This paper explores issues related to reflection-in-action, an essential tool in the development of coaching expertise, and discusses how note-taking by the coach during the coaching conversation can help develop the coach’s skills in this area. Reflection-in-action is in-the-moment reflective use of experience and knowledge so as to bett...

Ethical situations in executive coaching as experienced and evaluated by psychology and non psychology trained coaches

M Sass 2016

The last 20 years has seen a proliferation in the practice of executive coaching despite the limited empirical research about its efficacy. This research focused on ethical issues arising in the practice of business and managerial coaching (“executive coaching”), which had not been extensively examined in coaching literature. The research...