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Coaching: A therapy for people who do not seek help.

R Filippi Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics 1967

A quasi-experimental study on management coaching effectiveness.

WJG Evers, A Brouwers, W Tomic Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2006

Coaching has become an important managerial instrument of support. However, there is lack of research on its effectiveness. The authors conducted a quasi-experimental study to figure out whether coaching really leads to presupposed individual goals. Sixty managers of the federal government were divided in two groups: one group followed a ...

Evidence-based coaching: Flourishing or languishing?.

M Cavanagh, A Grant Australian Psychologist 2007

Coaching and coaching psychology offer a potential platform for an applied positive psychology and for facilitating individual, organisational and social change. Experts from around the world were invited to comment on the emerging discipline of coaching psychology and the commercial coaching industry. Several key themes emerged including...

Goal and Implementation Intentions and their Complex Transfer into Practice

S Greif 2011

Evidence-based executive coaching and action research: A natural fit

G Abbott, A Grant Proceedings of the second ICF coaching research symposium 2004

Lifestyle Wellness Coaching

J Gavin, M Mcbrearty Human Kinetics 2013

A Supportive Youth Coaching Model: Relevance to Life Coaches

S Lindgren 2011

The processes that promote learning in adult mentoring and coaching dyadic settings

M Marx Regent University 2009

A heuristic inquiry into the impact of vipassana meditation practice on executive coaching

B Braham Proceedings of the Third Coaching Research Symposium 2005

The coaching psychology movement and its development within the British Psychological Society

S Palmer, A Whybrow International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

To many members of the British Psychological Society (BPS) it may appear that the BPS Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) has come from nowhere to somewhere in a short space of time. It held its inaugural meeting on 15 December 2004 and by March 2005, it had become the third largest BPS subsystem with over 1600 Founder Members ...

Can Coaching Reduce Workplace Stress?

K Gyllensten, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2005

Work related stress is causing concern and is having negative effects on individuals and organisations (HSE, 2001). Various interventions are used to reduce workplace stress but this paper proposes that coaching can be effective in tackling stress. Coaching is becoming increasingly popular and is viewed positively within the corp...

Coaching and buying coaching services: A guide

J Jarvis Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 2004

An evaluation of a life coaching group program: A waitlist control study

S Green, L Oades, A Grant Australian Academic Press 2005

The parameters of specialist professional leadership coaching

RH Elliott Evidence-based coaching: Contributions from the behavioral s... 2005

Emotional intelligence and coaching: An exploratory study

M Chapman Australian Academic Press 2005

Enhancing goal self-concordance through coaching

D Burke, PA Linley International Coaching Psychology Review 2007

Objectives: Research shows that self-concordant goals are more readily pursued, better achieved, and their attainment can lead to increases in well-being. This study assesses whether executive coaching in turn affects self-concordance. Design: We hypothesised that the heightened awareness produced by coaching leads to changes in self-...

Toward a Profession of Coaching? A Definitional Examination of ‘Coaching,’‘Organization Development,’and ‘Human Resource Development’

RG Hamlin, AD Ellinger, RS Beattie International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

During the past few years, the growth of an emergent ‘coaching industry’ has resulted in some scholars calling for the development of a genuine coaching profession. Yet contemporary organization development (OD) and human resource development (HRD) practitioners conceive of coaching as an extant core component of their respective field...

Person-centred coaching psychology: A meta-theoretical perspective

S Joseph International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

Coaching psychology provides a new professional arena for thinking about psychological practice. Many will recognise the ethos of coaching psychology as different from the medical model and many coaching psychologists would not recognise a description of the profession as grounded in the medical model. It will be argued, however, that ...

Coaching: An emerging profession – or just a spanner in the HRD toolbox

D Gray, MNK Saunders, C Farrant The 16th International Conference on Human Resource Developm... 2015

Purpose: To identify the extent to which coaching is a distinct occupation, or task, performed within a portfolio of HR or other roles. To also ascertain the extent to which coaches identify with coaching as a profession and to explore how their professional identity (or multiple identities) are created and maintained. Design/methodology...

A bridge over troubled water: bringing together coaching and counselling

T Bachkirova, E Cox The International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching 2004

This article addresses the issue of forced estrangement between coaching and counselling. The separation between the two fields is explored and the consequences of this for coaching in particular as a newly established profession are discussed. It will be suggested that the source of differences and similarities between various types of ‘...

Annotated Bibliography of Life Coaching and Health Research

C Newnham-Kanas, P Gorczynski, D Morrow, JD Irwin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2009

While executive life coaching is quite prominent in the research forum as outlined in Grant’s workplace and executive life coaching annotated bibliography (2005), studies pertaining to life coachingrelated health outcomes are fewer in number and they have not been well recognized. Furthermore, although health-related studies focusing o...

Increased employee confidence: A benefit of coaching*

K Gyllensten, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2014

The aim of this study was to investigate participants’ experiences and views of coaching. A qualitative design was used, the study being part of a larger piece of research on coaching and stress. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to analyse the data. A main theme that emerged from the analysis was ‘Confidence’.

Structure and characteristics of effective coaching practice

Q Wang The Coaching Psychologist 2013

The paper reviews a range of existing coaching models published from 2000 to 2010 that have been widely used in the field of executive coaching, personal coaching and performance coaching. It has been found that these models provide a comprehensive template or pervasive structure of effective coaching practice. The structure covers sev...

Short-term cognitive coaching interventions: Worth the effort or a waste of time

F Beddoes-Jones, J Miller The Coaching Psychologist 2007

This paper was presented at the 1st International Coaching Psychology Conference, London, December, 2006. A small case study focusing on the development of metacognitive awareness and subsequent development of cognitive and behavioural strategies over a three month period designed to answer the following questions; Can a short-term cog...

The theoretical roots of NLP-based coaching

S Linder-Pelz, M Hall The Coaching Psychologist 2007

NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) is a communication model; it is about the internal representation of experience and how people communicate with themselves as well as others. In recent years NLP has informed much coaching practice (McDermott & Jago, 2001; Dilts, 2003; McLeod, 2004). Yet ‘the relationship between NLP and academe has b...

Workplace stress: Can it be reduced by coaching

K Gyllensten, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2006

Workplace coaching is becoming increasingly popular and it has been suggested that it could be useful in tackling stress (Hearn, 2001). However, there is a lack of research investigating the effectiveness of coaching in reducing stress. Indeed this was the aim of the current study. The research consisted of three parts and two large or...

Person-centred coaching psychology

S Joseph The Coaching Psychologist 2005

The proposal to establish a Special Group in Coaching Psychology

S Palmer, A Whybrow The Coaching Psychologist 2005

A large majority of Society members who voted for or against the proposal to set up a Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) did not actually see the proposal on which they were voting. This is just an anomaly of the way subsystems are set up within the Society. We have 14 versions of the working document which gradually changed a...

Towards a systems model of Coaching for Learning: Empirical lessons from the secondary classroom context

Q Wang International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

Objectives: Coaching psychology has been increasingly used in the discourse of education. However, there has been a lack of research systematically looking at the nature of coaching in the learning process from a participatory and systems approach. This study aimed to investigate how coaching, implemented in enquiry-based learning, wou...

Utilising evidence-based leadership theories in coaching for leadership development: Towards a comprehensive integrating conceptual framework

R Elliott International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

Purpose: Examination of the coaching psychology literature shows that discussion about leadership coaching is disconnected from the scientific literature about leadership. Similarly, the latter has only recently begun to consider how leadership is developed. This lack of cross-engagement between two relevant evidencebased literatures ...

Positive coaching with frontline managers: enhancing their effectiveness and understanding why

N Yu, CG Collins, M Cavanagh, K White, G Fairbrother International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Coaching is increasingly being used in the health sector, with staff and patients. Despite this increase there is only a small body of empirical evidence that demonstrates the effectiveness of coaching in health care settings. Objectives: This study evaluated the effectiveness of a workplace coaching programme (WCP) aimed at enhancing...

Developing Principles For Therapeutic Coaching: A UK Perspective

S Jackson, A Parsons Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2016

This position paper describes a proposed definition and theoretical model for therapeutic coaching and coach training, which comes from the authors’ experiences and professional development. It has evolved through rigorous discussions on what it takes to coach effectively for both clients and coaches. Our experiences have highlighted a gr...

Exploring the evolution of coaching through the lens of innovation

M Abravanel, J Gavin International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

In this paper, we examine coaching’s innovativeness through a comparison of its approaches and methods with those of more established helping professions. Using extant literature, we consider the nature of innovation before going on to examine coaching’s core beliefs and values, theoretical paradigms, and its goals, techniques, and method...

The unsolved value of executive coaching: A meta-analysis of outcomes using randomised control trial studies

D Burt, Z Talati International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

Methodology and research supporting coaching’s effectiveness has not kept up with its growth and demand. The current literature on coaching is lacking sufficient empirical rigour and does not meet the standard required for mixed methods design. This metaanalysis investigated the outcomes of coaching, and potential moderating effects of ot...

Managerial coaching – A literature review

P Lawrence International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

The term managerial coaching is often used to describe the leader’s role in developing people, but views differ as to the optimal process by which this is achieved. Although managerial coaching is often regarded as a ‘cut down’ or simplified version of external coaching, it is suggested here that the role of the managerial coach is, in ma...

The Impact of Life Coaching on Undergraduate Students: A Multiyear Analysis of Coaching Outcomes

E Lefdahl-Davis, L Huffman, J Stancil, A Alayan International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2018

Life coaching is a professional practice which aims to help people flourish in life, by living according to their strengths, striving to reach goals, and achieve well-being in all areas of life. At colleges and universities in the United States, free counselling resources are sometimes provided for students, but coaching services are less...

The Efficacy Of Executive Coaching: An Empirical Investigation Of Two Approaches Using Random Assignment And A Switching-Replications Design

J Williams, R Lowman Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2018

Using random assignment and a switching-replications design in a corporate setting, this study compared the effectiveness of two approaches to executive coaching: goal-focused and process-oriented. Goal-focused coaching is based on goal-setting theory, which concentrates on identifying a task to be accomplished, whereas process-oriented c...

The impact of peer-to-peer coaching on self-esteem, test anxiety and perceived stress in adolescents

N Warner, M Budd The Coaching Psychologist 2018

Schools are increasingly using peer support programmes to support students. This study will explore the effectiveness of peer-to-peer coaching on increasing self-esteem and reducing test anxiety and perceived stress in sixth form students. Fifty-five participants took part in the study. IGROW, a variation of the GROW coaching model, was u...

An exploration of managers and leaders using coaching skills

J DiGirolamo, J Tkach Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. Advanc... 2019

The use of coaching skills by managers and leaders, often termed managerial coaching, has become popular in recent years. Despite this trend, a scarcity of research exists on the topic. Researchers continue to debate how best to conceptualize, define, and measure the use of coaching skills by managers and leaders, how effective it is, and...

The experience of positive psychology coaching following unconscious bias training: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

F Moin, C van Nieuwerburgh International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2021

This study explored the lived experience of four professionals who engaged in positive psychology coaching following an implicit association test and unconscious bias training. Unconscious bias training focuses on a human limitation, avoidance goals, and can result in defensiveness. In contrast, positive psychology coaching leverages s...

Effect of Mentoring on Job Performance among Indian Millennials: A Quantitative Study

S Chatterjee, A Dey, H Chaturvedi International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2021

Millennials form a large proportion of the labour market in India. Therefore, organizations are interested in knowing how to motivate them and maximize their performance. Accordingly, this study examined the relationship between mentoring and job performance among Indian millennials. Data was collected from 122 Indian millennial mentees...