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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...

Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose - The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership

J Whitmore Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2009

Completely Revised 4th Edition of the 500,000 Copy Bestseller! Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being. Coaching has matured into an invaluable profession fit for our times and this fourth edition of the most widely read coaching book takes it to the next frontier. — John Whitmore Good co...

Evidence-based life coaching for senior high school students: Building hardiness and hope

S Green, AM Grant, J Rynsaardt International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Objective: To extend the knowledge base on the use of life coaching as an applied positive psychology. Studies to date have utilised community samples with participants of varying ages and most research has used adult community samples. The present study is unusual in that it examined the efficacy of an evidence-based (cognitive-behavi...

Role of coaching psychology in defining boundaries between counselling and coaching

T Bachkirova Routledge 2007

Person-centered approach, positive psychology, and relational helping building bridges

S Joseph, R Bryant-Jefferies Routledge 2008

The benefits of peer coaching as a support system for early childhood education students.

T Hooker International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014

This research investigates how students are supported at tertiary level when involved in peer coaching partnerships and whether both partners identify the same benefits. The study used a mixed methods case study and narrative inquiry approach and is located in the tertiary education sector in New Zealand where a group of student teach...

Coaching for accelerated research productivity in Higher Education

H Geber International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2010

It is recognized that combining a thorough orientation to academic life and its expectations with intensive training in conceptualising research can accelerate the careers of early career academics. Unique to the structured support programme for research productivity and publication at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg...

Discovering, applying and integrating: The process of learning in coaching

K Griffiths, M Campbell International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

Coaching is a rapidly expanding field with interdisciplinary roots and broad application. However, despite abundant prescriptive literature, research into the process of coaching is minimal. Similarly, although learning is inherently recognised in the process of coaching, the process of learning in coaching is little understood and lea...

A pilot study evaluating strengths-based coaching for primary school students: Enhancing engagement and hope

W Madden, S Green, AM Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

Objective: This pilot study examines the impact of an evidence-based strengths coaching programme on male primary school students’ levels of engagement and hope. Design: In a within-subject design study, 38 Year Five male students (mean age 10.7 years) participated in a strengths-based coaching programme as part of their Personal Devel...

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...

Exploring the benefits of being a student coach in educational settings: a mixed-method study

C van Nieuwerburgh, C Tong Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2013

Educational coaching is increasingly being implemented in schools in the UK and internationally. In some coaching programmes, older students coach younger students. Yet only a handful of studies, most conducted with university students, have investigated the impact of coaching in educational settings, and there is limited research explori...

Instructional coaching: A focus on practice

J Knight, C van Nieuwerburgh Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2012

This article provides an overview of coaching in educational settings in the UK before introducing the concept of Instructional Coaching which is an evidence-based approach which has been developed and trialled in the USA. Instructional Coaching is defined and discussed in relation to UK-based approaches. It is proposed that Instructional...