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Resistance, motivational interviewing, and executive coaching.

P Harakas Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2013

In the sphere of executive coaching, there is great need for the development of mature, refined, and nuanced theoretical conceptualizations. This review attempts to bridge the insights gained from specific areas of social, clinical, and counseling psychology with the executive coaching literature. The article reviews and discusses theoret...

Addressing deficit performance through coaching—using motivational interviewing for performance improvement at work.

J Passmore International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Resistance from coachees is a problem met by executive coaches in all fields. The continued interest in executive coaching by organisations has seen coaching beginning to be used more widely. An increasing number of low and average performing managers are following their high performing peers into the executive coaching room. One parti...

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...

The Efficacy of Executive Coaching in Times of Organisational Change

AM Grant Journal of Change Management 2014

Executive coaching and self-efficacy: A study of goal-setting and leadership capacity

CA Minski 2014

Executive coaching has been proposed as an intervention that helps executives improve their performance, and achieve the goals of the organization. Goals direct attention and goal-setting is a proven practical managerial tool. People higher in self-efficacy are more committed to goals, find and use better task strategies to attain the goa...

Motivational Interviewing-- a model for coaching psychology practice

J Passmore The Coaching Psychologist 2011

This is the first in a series of papers to look at Motivational Interviewing (MI) as an approach suitable for use with coaching clients. This paper presents a brief overview of MI for readers unfamiliar with MI and directs readers to other sources for a fuller account. The paper aims to set the scene from a practitioner perspective for...

Transformative learning theory and coaching: Application in practice

K Sammut International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014

The aim of the research reported in this paper was to discover if and how transformative learning theory is applied in coaching. Data were collected from eight coaches through semi-structured interviews. The findings of the study revealed four emerging themes: space and context of the coaching environment; the coaching relationship; di...

The nature of the internal coaching relationship

S Machin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2010

This paper presents the results of a study into the nature of the relationship between in-house coaches and their clients based on three case studies of coach-client pairs using a phenomenological approach. Findings suggest that trust is of paramount importance and this enables both a level of psychological depth and challenge by the c...

The effects of coachee readiness and core self-evaluations on leadership coaching outcomes: a controlled trial

D MacKie Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2015

This study investigates the impact of coachee readiness for change and core personality traits as both criteria and predictors of outcomes after strength-based leadership coaching. Specifically this study examined developmental readiness, change readiness and core self-evaluations (CSEs; locus of control, neuroticism, self-efficacy and se...

Self-esteem within cognitive behavioural coaching: a theoretical framework to integrate theory with practice

S Dinos, S Palmer Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2015

The usefulness of the cognitive behavioural model in dealing with low self-esteem has been documented in many studies. Research suggests that individuals gather information about themselves by engaging in self-evaluation processes, which in turn are significantly related to global feeling of self-worth. Domains or attributes that individu...

Executive Coaching and the Effect on Causal Attribution

F Moen International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2011

This article investigates the impact of a one year executive coaching experiment on intrapersonal causal attribution. The results showed that executive coaching had significant effects on the executives’ causal attributions. Causal attributions of successful achievements to strategy, ability and effort increased, whereas causal attributio...

Personal Transformation: Developing Self-Processing Competence Through Coaching

L Steyn, A Barnard International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2024

This study employed a qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological approach to explore personal transformation and how it manifests in the coaching process. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven senior leaders who had previously engaged in a coaching programme of at least six sessions. The findings describe personal transforma...