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Coaching understood: A pragmatic inquiry into the coaching process.

E Cox Sage 2013

I doubt therefore I coach: Critical moments in coaching practice.

E de Haan Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008

Executive coaching in practice: What determines helpfulness for clients of coaching.

de Haan. E., V Culpin, J Curd Personnel Review 2011

Purpose – Executive coaching is gaining in popularity, both as part of personal or organisational development programmes and as a tailored form of individual consulting. The purpose of this study is to examine how various aspects of the executive coaching intervention make a difference to the clients of coaching themselves. Design/meth...

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 ...

ICF global coaching client study-Executive Summary

International Coach Federation International Coach Federation 2009

Proceedings of the First ICF Coaching Research Symposium

I Stein, LA Belsten International Coach Federation 2003

An agenda for coaching-related research: A challenge for researchers.

J Bennett Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2006

Coaching models for leadership development: An integrative review

W Carey, D Philippon, G Cummings Journal of Leadership Studies 2011

Five Conversations Toward a Field of Coaching Studies

I Stein, L Page Proceedings of the Fourth Coaching Research Symposium 2006

Better Business Results Through Coaching

U Kueffner 2005

Executive coaching: it works!

FA Kombarakaran, JA Yang, MN Baker, PB Fernandes Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008

Outcomes of this empirical study demonstrated that executive coaching is an effective method of leadership development. One hundred fourteen executives and 42 coaches were surveyed using instruments designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. Results indicated that executive change occurred in 5 areas: people management, re...

The efficacy of coaching

AM Grant Wiley-Blackwell 2013

Measuring change: A psychometric approach to evaluating individual coaching outcomes

DB Peterson Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organiza... 1993

Developmental coaching for high school teachers: Executive coaching goes to school.

AM Grant, LS Green, J Rynsaardt Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2010

Teachers are in a very real sense the embodiment of leadership, providing direction, guidance, and feedback to their students in addition to acting as role models. Teachers may well thus benefit from developmental coaching that draws on theories of leadership. This study was both an experimental (randomly assigned conditions) and a quasi-...

Does coaching work or are we asking the wrong question?

A Fillery-Travis, D Lane International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

Within the context of an expanding market for coaching in all its forms organisations are asking the questions ‘Does coaching work?’ They seek evidence of a return on investment. We argue within this paper that this is the wrong question. Before we can ask whether coaching works we must ask how is it being used, is a coherent framework of...

Executive coaching as an individually tailored consultation intervention: does it increase leadership?

S Kampa-Kokesch 2003

Coaching with self-determination in mind: Using theory to advance evidence-based coaching practice

GB Spence, LG Oades International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2011

The scholarly coaching literature has advanced considerably in the past decade. However, a review of the existing knowledge base suggests that coaching practice and research remains relatively uninformed by relevant psychological theory. In this paper it will be argued that Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985) presents as...

The compatibility between characteristics of employees at risk for sickness absence and components of a preventive coaching intervention

S Duijts, I Kant, P van den Brandt, G Swaen International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

The aim of this study was to assess the compatibility between characteristics of employees ‘at risk’ for sickness absence and components of a preventive coaching intervention. Data from baseline questionnaires of the ‘at risk’ study population of a randomized trial, and of two reference groups of the Maastricht Cohort Study were used t...

Coaching: an expensive conversation or a return on investment?

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...

Coaching for brave leadership: an action research study

M McLaughlin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

There appears to be a gap between the behaviours of leaders and the expectations of followers and other stakeholders. This gap may be due to an absence of brave leadership. An action research study was designed for use with six leaders who undertook to help evolve and also be coached using a brave leadership coaching model. The data wa...

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...

Behavioural indicators of ineffective managerial coaching: A cross-national study

A Ellinger, RG Hamlin, R Beattie Journal of European Industrial Training 2008

Purpose – The concept of managers assuming developmental roles such as coaches and learning facilitators has received considerable attention in recent years. Yet, despite the growing body of expert opinion that suggests that coaching is an essential core activity of everyday management and leadership, the literature base remains largely ...

Diversity in coaching: Working with gender, Culture, Race and Age

J Passmore Kogan Page Publishers 2009

Coaching effectiveness survey instruments: taking stock of measuring the immeasurable

JA Tooth, S Nielsen, H Armstrong Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2013

Measuring the benefits obtained from the use of executive and organisational coaching is of interest both to coaching service providers and to the organisations who engage their services. Survey instruments, designed to measure coaching effectiveness, have emerged as a means of easy access to information on the success of the coaching pro...

‘Good question’: Exploring the experiences of generating questions in coaching

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...

How can maternity-return coaching complement structural organisational benefits?

C Vitzthum International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

This article presents findings from an action research study into how maternity-return coaching can complement organisational maternity benefits in order to facilitate career re-engagement. In an initial step, mothers and managers of two multinationals were interviewed. Based on the findings a coaching programme was developed, mothers wer...

Where we have been, where we are now, and where we might be heading: Where next for the coaching relationship?

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 ...

Crossing the line? A qualitative exploration of ICF master certified: Coaches’ perception of roles, borders and boundaries

C Sime, Y Jacob International Coaching Psychology Review 2018

Objectives: Coaches have an unclear role and the industry shares a complex border with therapeutic practices. This study explored the nature of the relationship between coaching and therapeutic practices, how coaching professionals experience, navigate and manage this boundary, and sought to identify what roles they adopt. Design: Seve...