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Transfer of training: A review and directions for future research.

T Baldwin, J Ford Personnel Psychology 1988

Transfer of training is of paramount concern for training researchers and practitioners. Despite research efforts, there is a growing concern over the “transfer problem.” The purpose of this paper is to provide a critique of the existing transfer research and to suggest directions for future research investigations. The conditions of tran...

Employers and coaching evaluation.

A Carter, H Wolfe, M Kerrin International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2005

The influence of General Perceptions of the Training Environment on Pretraining Motivation and Perceived Training Transfer

J Facteau, G Dobbins, J Russell, R Ladd, J Kudisch Journal of Management 1995

The present study was conducted to determine whether trainees’ general beliefs about training affect pretraining motivation and transfer of training in a large-scale training curriculum. In addition, the influence of social support for training from four organizational constituents (top management, supervisors, peers, and subordinates) an...

The new leaders: Transforming the art of leadership into the science of results

D Goleman, R Boyatzis, A McKee Little, Brown London 2002

Coaching and executive character: Core problems and basic approaches.

RR Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1997

This article explores three major problems often encountered by consultants who are engaged to coach executives and who confront difficulties related to the character of their clients: executive character as a complex adaptive system that influences the unconscious aspects of organizational life, unconscious psychological conflict as a ke...

Solution-focused coaching: Managing people in a complex world

J Greene, A Grant Pearson Education 2003

Executive Coaching: Inspiring Performance at Work. IES Report 379.

A Carter ERIC 2001

A four-phase study was conducted in Great Britain to determine what executive coaching is, why organizations use it, what issues are involved, and where executive coaching fits in terms of management learning theory. Data were gathered through a literature review, in-depth interviews with management development specialists and others in o...

The brave new world of executive coaching

WQ Judge, J Cowell Business Horizons 1997

Building successful leadership coaching relationships: Examining impact of matching criteria in a leadership coaching program.

L Boyce, R Jackson, L Neal Journal of Management Development 2010

Purpose – This paper aims to employ a conceptual model to examine the relationship processes and mediating role of client‐coach relationship between client‐coach match criteria and coaching outcomes to advance the understanding of client‐coach relationship's impact on leadership coaching. Design/methodology/approach – Data collected ...

Evaluating the effectiveness of executive coaching: Beyond ROI?

G Dai, MKP De, R Lee An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice 2009

The popularity of executive coaching has increased dramatically in both the practitioner world and academia during the past decade. However, evaluating the effectiveness of coaching has lagged behind. Executive coaching is a multi-disciplinary practice, and professionals from many different scholarly backgrounds provide coaching services....

Evaluating leadership coaching: A review and integrated framework.

L Boyce, K Ely, J Nelson, S Zaccaro, G Hernez-Broome, W Whym... The Leadership Quarterly 2010

Leadership coaching reflects an evolving dynamic between the client and coach that is qualitatively different from most approaches to leadership development and therefore holds particular challenges for evaluation. Based on reviews of academic and practitioner literatures, this paper presents an integrated framework of coaching evaluation...

Goal and Implementation Intentions and their Complex Transfer into Practice

S Greif 2011

Using multisource feedback coaching effectively in executive education.

R Hooijberg, N Lane Academy of Management Learning & Education 2009

Many executive education programs that are focused on leadership now use multisource feedback. Both the faculty and clients then hope that providing this feedback will lead to performance improvements. Multisource feedback research has shown, however, that the extent to which improvement occurs depends on a variety of personality variable...

Before we know how we’ve done, we need to know what we’re doing: Operationalising coaching to provide a foundation for coaching evaluation

LJ Stewart, S O’Riordan, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2008

Coaching has become accepted as a valid and effective development strategy. This acceptance has been accompanied by an emphasis on professionalising coaching, has raised the profile of coaching psychology, and has resulted in a demand for evidence-based coaching. This article suggests that a theoreticallygrounded means of evidencing co...

Line management involvement in coaching: Help or hindrance? A content analysis study

H Ogilvy, V Ellam-Dyson International Coaching Psychology Review 2012

Objectives: This study investigated the involvement that line managers have when their direct reports are receiving coaching from either an internal or external coach; what line managers and coachees report hinders and facilitates line management involvement; and in what ways does line management involvement affect the outcome of coach...

Does coaching psychology need the concept of formulation

D Lane, S Corrie International Coaching Psychology Review 2009

The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of some of the debates and controversies surrounding formulation, and to highlight ways of navigating these debates more successfully for the benefits of ourselves, our clients and the future development of our profession. The concept of formulation, that is an explanatory account of the issu...

Multi-stakeholder contracting in executive/business coaching: an analysis of practice and recommendations for gaining maximum value

E Turner, P Hawkins International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016

Multi-stakeholder contracting for coaching takes place in organisational settings worldwide. This article presents the results and implications of an international study which explored its use in executive and business coaching, with the aim of sharing best practice and achieving maximum value for all participants. Respondents (n=651) wer...

Coaching From A Philosophy Of Science Perspective

T Krapu Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2016

Coaching is a multidisciplinary human development method. As such there is no academic discipline that ‘owns’ the coaching profession. Having contributors from across disciplines can appear to result in an amalgam or patchwork of techniques that have been thrown together with no underlying principles to guide them. This can invite a view ...