D Peterson, J Bono, R Purvanova, A Towler Personnel Psychology 2009
Despite the ubiquity of executive coaching interventions in business organizations, there is little uniformity in the practices (e.g., assessment tools, scientific or philosophical approaches, activities, goals, and outcome evaluation methods) of executive coaches. Addressing the ongoing debate about the role of psychology in executive co...
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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.
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– Data collected ...
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G Dai, MKP De, G Hallenbeck, R Lee SIOP Conference 2010 2010
There is a lack ofconsensus among professionals regarding how to evaluate executive coaching. This paper examines seven areas that will impact the way researchers evaluate coaching effectiveness and the conclusions they draw from their studies. Clarification on these areas will guide the future ofcoaching evaluation research and practice.
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A Day, E de Haan, C Sills, E Blass International Coaching Psychology Review 2008
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study into critical moments in the coaching relationship. Interviews were completed with a total of 28 experienced coaches. The research highlighted that critical moments are unforeseen and characterised by intense emotions and anxiety within the coaching relationship. These momen...
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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....
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G Dai, MKP De Korn/Ferry Institute 2009
While executive coaching has increased markedly during recent years, the professional application of coaching, our understanding of when to use coaching, and the evaluation of its effectiveness has lagged far behind. The purpose of the current study is to review empirical studies on executive coaching in the literature, synthesize their f...
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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...
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A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006
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K Gyllensten, S Palmer International Coaching Psychology Review 2007
Objectives: There is a lack of research on the coaching relationship (O'Broin & Palmer, 2006a). The current paper will present the findings from a qualitative study that explored experiences of workplace coaching including the coaching relationship.
Design: The study adopted a qualitative design and the data was analysed by Interpreta...
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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...
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P Ianiro, S Kauffeld Consulting Psychology Journal 2014
The quality of coaching working alliances is crucial for coaching success. Determining the ingredients that contribute to a high-quality coaching working alliance is an important question for research. Interpersonal behavior is considered to be a vital factor for a successful coach– client working alliance. This study analyzes how a coach...
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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...
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D MacKie Australian Psychologist 2007
To date there have been no universally accepted criteria for what constitutes a successful outcome in executive coaching. This has been partly a function of the range of activities undertaken within the coaching medium and partly the fact that commercial realities mitigate against controlled trials teasing out mediating and moderating var...
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C Newnham-Kanas, J Irwin, D Morrow International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching & Mento... 2011
Currently, research supporting the validity of coaching is rising in both executive and life coaching
arenas. Research has revealed that co-active life coaching (CALC), a particular style of coaching, is
compatible with health-behaviour theory. However, very little information is known about co-active
coaches themselves. The purpose...
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S Ting, P Scisco Jossey-Bass 2006
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M Visser Journal of Management Development 2010
Purpose
– In recent research the strength and nature of the relationship between coaches and executives appears as a critical success factor in successful coaching outcomes. However, little theory has as yet been devoted to an analysis of how relationships are used in executive coaching. Such an analysis requires going from the monadic, ...
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K Wasylyshyn Palgrave Macmillan 2014
This is a book of cases that may represent best practices.
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B Peltier Taylor & Francis 2011
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B Joo Human Resource Development Review 2005
Executive coaching has become increasingly popular despite limited empirical evidence about its impact and wide disagreement about necessary or desired professional qualifications. This article examines the practice of executive coaching, investigating the useful underlying theories by reviewing previous research. It also provides a conce...
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P Hawkins McGraw-Hill International 2012
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G Gan, C Chong Journal of Management Development 2015
Purpose
– In order to bridge the gap and provide organizations with practical assistance in dealing with the effectiveness of executive coaching. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between coaching relationship which constitutes of rapport, trust, commitment and match with coaching effectiveness in Malaysia using...
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G Bozer, S C., S C. Personnel Review 2014
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– Little empirical research has examined the role of coach characteristics in coaching success. The purpose of this paper is to address this gap in the literature by identifying and testing the relationships between a coach's academic background in psychology and credibility with executive coaching effectiveness as reflected in g...
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N Lauzon Journal of Education and Human Development 2015
The general objective of this study is to examine the coaching offered by Québec school boards to new
school principals during their professional integration period. More specifically, it aims to study coaches’
perceptions of: 1) the positive impacts expected from executive coaching, 2) the factors that facilitate this
coaching, and 3)...
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AM Passarelli Frontiers in psychology 2015
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G Ward, E van de Loo, S ten Have International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2014
Group coaching is growing as a leadership development intervention for executives, in business
schools and organizations. Benefits include economies of scale, diversity of perspectives, and behavioural
change. We studied the psychodynamic group coaching intervention technique practiced at a global
business school. This intervention ha...
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G Newsom, EB Dent International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011
This study has three main purposes. First, it introduces the Executive Coaching Work Behaviour Survey
and takes the initial steps in validating this instrument. It then explores the frequency of specific work
Behaviours executive coaches use in their client interactions and examines the variability in these
behaviours based on demogr...
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J Cook International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013
The Collaborative Action Coaching for Leaders model (Cook, 2011) is designed for the
transfer and sustainability of learning from the coaching session to outside that experience: it is
a return on investment. The model emanated from a doctoral level research study conducted
with leaders from UK voluntary sector organisations: namely Ad...
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K Gehlert, NH Anderson The Coaching Psychologist 2013
To prepare executives for the competitive and dynamic world of business, MBA and EMBA programmes
have begun using executive coaching to develop high-functioning executives. Of the top 10 EMBA
programmes discussed in the 2011 US News and World Report, all offered some form of executive coaching
to their students. Despite this, many prog...
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A O’Broin, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2006
This paper highlights the paradox of the potential importance of the coach-client relationship to coaching
outcome, with a serious lack of studies in this area. Formal research into the coach-client relationship is
critical, as its confirmation as a factor instrumental in coaching outcome would have implications for
coaching effectiven...
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E de Haan, C Niess International Coaching Psychology Review 2015
Objectives: Previous studies on the effectiveness of coaching have focused on positive outcomes that clients,
coaches and organisational colleagues attribute to engaging in coaching overall. In this study descriptions
of critical moments of coaching as experienced by executive coaching clients, their coaches and their
sponsors are anal...
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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...
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J Bouwer, J van Egmond International Coaching Psychology Review 2012
Objectives: Identifying those (moderating) factors that are instrumental in the successful completion of a
coaching trajectory that is based on the Van Egmond Coaching Model (VECM).
Design: Qualitative.
Methods: Data were collected by means of three questionnaires: a semi-structured questionnaire for the
clients; a semi-structured que...
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MT Augustijnen, G Schnitzer, R Van Esbroeck International Coaching Psychology Review 2011
Objective: This paper targets the development of an experimental based model of executive coaching using
a qualitative analysis of interview data with coachees.
Design: In this study data on the process of executive coaching were collected ex post facto with 10 persons
who had gone through executive coaching during 2008–2009.
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P Cortvriend, C Harris, E Alexander International Coaching Psychology Review 2008
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M Ricciardi, J Schaller, D Garcia, T Archer The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching: Publish... 2015
There is a continuous need for empirical evidence regarding the impact and experience
of coaching leadership. The purpose of this study was to describe the effects from a
coaching leadership program. The results indicated that the majority of the participants
in the program used the skills acquired during the program (e.g., communicati...
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N Koroleva International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016
The existing literature lacks theoretical and empirical research when exploring the phenomenon of sustainable change as a result of executive coaching. Despite the rapid growth of executive coaching, there is a disconnection between practice and academic research in assessing sustainable change. This means that reflective practitioners fa...
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J Cook International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016
The Collaborative Action Coaching for Leaders model (Cook, 2011) emerged from a longitudinal doctoral study researching coaching practice, and currently it is the only empirical model for external oneto- one stand alone coaching of leaders which enables transfer and sustainability of learning. But is the model transferable to other coache...
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G Wallis International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016
This research uses heuristic inquiry to provide insight into experiences of generating questions in coaching. Eight experienced coaches, recruited as co-researchers, shared their experiences of generating coaching questions via post-coaching reflections and conversational interviews. Thematic analysis of the data identified that coaches n...
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S Wotruba International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2016
The coaching relationship is seen as integral to individual coaching, but less is known about the nature of the relationship within a team coaching context. This study explores the importance that leadership team coaching practitioners attach to the coaching relationship and as a consequence what that means for how they work with teams. A...
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D Stober International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2005
As coaching’s popularity has risen as a tool in executive and organizational development, questions of effectiveness and potential outcomes arise. Through research investigating coaching effectiveness and outcomes, different studies have fulfilled different research approaches of exploration, description, and explanation. This article dis...
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J Fielder, L Starr International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2008
In this article, Fielder and Starr address the nature of the coaching contract for external coaches offering organizational and executive coaching to individual clients. They begin by reviewing salient characteristics of legal and consulting contracts then focus on coaching contracts. Subsequently, the authors examine coaching contracts f...
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A O’Broin Coaching Psykologi 2016
The advent of the current stage of coaching research seeking to identify how coaching works, or the ‘active ingredients’ of coaching has taken coaching relationship research into a more prominent position. In exploring the questions of what we know about the coaching relationship and its role in coaching and coaching outcomes, and how we ...
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M Schalk, J Landeta Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2017
The purpose of this paper is to show the advantages and disadvantages of internal and external executive coaching. To this end, it offers a thorough review of the literature and an exploratory study based on the Delphi method with 40 selected experts, who gave answers based on their own experience. The results indicate that the decision o...
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V Nanduri International Coaching Psychology Review 2018
Objectives: This study addressed three research questions: How do participants perceive the effects of coaching and sustain changes a year later? What challenges were experienced by the coachees in sustaining their changes? What factors enabled the coachees in sustaining their changes?
Design: The study employed Interpretative Phenomen...
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V Nanduri Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2018
Company restructure and retrenchment is a sensitive issue for all affected as well as involved, to adopt various strategies to deal with this situation. The use of a coaching intervention as a support strategy in this situation has not been given much attention in practice. In this paper the practitioner-researcher presents the details of...
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P Halliwell, R Mitchell, B Boyle Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2021
Due to concerns on the efficacy of formal leader development programmes such as low learning transfer back to the organisation, there has been an increasing shift towards individually owned leader development programmes within organisations. Whilst leadership coaching is one of these and is gaining in popularity, further studies are neede...
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R Brown, L Varghese, S Sullivan, S Parsons International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2021
Coaching is a well-established developmental tool for senior managers and leaders, but
almost no research has examined the value of coaching for young, emerging leaders. This
paper presents two studies examining the impact of leadership coaching among university
students. Study 1, a waitlist-controlled experiment, revealed that student...
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Jordan M., A Henderson International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2024
This study explores internal executive coaches’ sense-making of organisational role boundaries within a rail industry organisation. This cross-sectional qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with three coaches sourced from the organisation’s internal executive coach pool, was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological...
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