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Understanding implicit models that guide the coaching process.

R Barner, J Higgins Journal of Management Development 2007

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide readers with a better understanding of four theory models that inform coaching practice, and to reflect on how the theoretical approach that one adopts is likely to shape one's coaching practice. Design/methodology/approach – This article is based on the authors' combined 30 years of experience a...

Coaching from a systemic perspective: A complex adaptive conversation.

M Cavanagh John Wiley & Sons 2006

Executive coaching outcome research: The contribution of common factors such as relationship, personality match, and self efficacy.

de Haan. E., A Duckworth, D Birch, C Jones Consulting Psychology Journal 2013

This article argues for a new way of studying executive-coaching outcomes, which is illustrated with a study based on data from 156 client– coach pairs. The argument accepts that we are unlikely to get robust data on coaching outcomes in the near future but assumes that we can expect similar effectiveness for coaching as that demonstrated...

An integrative goal-focused approach to executive coaching.

A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006

Workplace and executive coaching: A bibliography from the scholarly business literature.

A Grant John Wiley & Sons 2006

Key characteristics of the commercial Australian executive coach training industry.

A Grant, B O'Hara International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Objectives: To identify organisations who offer executive coach training and business coach training in Australia; assessment processes, cost and duration of courses; the delineation between coaching and counselling; marketing claims made; and the qualifications of the owners and trainers. Design: A qualitative process of emergent them...

Findings from a global survey of certified professional co-active coaches.

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...

Seeing beyond the obvious: Executive coaching and IO psychologists.

J Passmore Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Sc... 2009

Working with challenging clients in executive coaching: theory, practice and empirical research

M Cavanagh Second ICF Coaching Research Sympsoium 2004

Coaching and buying coaching services: A guide

J Jarvis Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 2004

Psychology's unique contribution to solution-focused coaching: Exploring clients' past to inform their present and design their future

T Kemp Australian Academic Press 2005

An exploratory study of Australian executive coaches

T Binstead, AM Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

Objectives: This exploratory study sought to extend the limited knowledge base about the executive coaching industry in Australia. Design: A qualitative process of emergent thematic coding using information from participants. Methods: 28 Australian executive coaches were interviewed using a qualitative conversational interviewing meth...

The self-presentation of commercial Australian life coaching schools: Cause for concern

AM Grant, B O’Hara International Coaching Psychology Review 2006

Objectives: The study had four major objectives: (1) to identify the types of qualifications,certifications and accreditations offered by Australian life coaching schools; (2) to provide an overview of the advertised content and cost of life coach training courses; (3) to identify how life coaching schools differentiate between life co...

Executive, workplace and life coaching: Findings from a largescale survey of international coach federation members

A Grant, R Zackon International journal of evidence based coaching and mentori... 2004

The knowledge base of coach-specific research detailing theories, techniques and outcomes of coaching is growing annually. However, little is known about coaches themselves. This paper reports on a large scale survey of coaches. A total of 2,529 coaches responded to an online survey conducted in 2003 amongst International Coach Federa...

Life Coaching In Israel: An Overview of Israel's Burgeoning Life-Coaching Industry

O Atad, Y Galily, AM Grant International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2013

The aim of the study is to shed light on the process by which life-coaching has become a thriving industry in Israel. By performing an Internet search followed by website analysis, document analysis and in-depth interviews with key people in the industry, we suggest that there is a distorted notion of life-coaching, both from a profess...

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 ‘...

The mental health boundary in relationship to coaching and other activities

A Buckley International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007

This article explores the relationship between coaching and mental health issues. Coaching functions in a world that is dominated by the medical model of mental health, where problems are viewed as illnesses to be diagnosed and treated. The coaching industry also functions alongside many other helping by talking activities, such as cou...

Leadership Coaching? No thanks, I’m not worthy

V Ellam-Dyson, S Palmer The Coaching Psychologist 2011

The question of what encourages or discourages individuals to be coached, or not, is an interesting one. Particularly when the coaching is being funded and it has been positioned as a useful tool to aid the transition to a more senior position. In a study intended to follow 41 executives through the coaching process almost half of the ...

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...

A review of assumptions in executive coaching

P Olson The Coaching Psychologist 2008

This paper is a more elaborate version of a speech given at the 3rd National Conference of the Special Group for Coaching Psychology in 2007. It looks at a diversity of definitions of coaching and executive coaching as well as reviews available research from a business perspective. The executive context has several unique features and ...

Life coaching: Origins, direction and potential risk--why the contribution of psychologists is needed more than ever

J Senior The Coaching Psychologist 2007

A review of life coaching was conducted using counselling and counselling psychology as a comparison to highlight potential risk of unethical practice due to inadequate research and a lack of industry regulation. The origins of life coaching and executive coaching are explored; along with current media interest which is argued may be i...

Back to basics: How the discovery of transference is relevant for coaches and consultants today

E de Haan International Coaching Psychology Review 2011

Purpose: In this study the phenomenon of transference (and parallel process) is explored in terms of its historical understanding and possible occurrences in real life sessions with clients. Design/Methodology: After a summary of the main historical breakthroughs in the discoveries of defences, resistance, transference, countertransfer...

Ethical situations in executive coaching as experienced and evaluated by psychology and non psychology trained coaches

M Sass 2016

The last 20 years has seen a proliferation in the practice of executive coaching despite the limited empirical research about its efficacy. This research focused on ethical issues arising in the practice of business and managerial coaching (“executive coaching”), which had not been extensively examined in coaching literature. The research...

Toward A Deeper Understanding Of The Role Of Trusted Leadership Advisor, And Knowing If You Are Ready For It

R White Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2017

In “From Here to Certainty: Becoming CEO and How a Trusted Leadership Advisor (TLA) Helped the Client Get There,” Karol Wasylyshyn (2017) presents an engaging and thought-provoking case study of her client’s journey from a highly placed position within a multinational corporation to CEO of a newly spun-off subsidiary. The article breaks n...

The effect of business coaching and mentoring on small-to-medium enterprise performance and growth

B Crompton 2012

This thesis aims to address the principal question of whether business coaching directly or indirectly enhances firm financial performance and growth. The present thesis incorporates four comprehensive and inter-related studies designed to investigate the contribution of business coaching to firm growth in cohorts of start-up companies an...

The effectiveness of person-centered coaching intervention in raising emotional and social intelligence competencies in the workplace

M Lemisiou International Coaching Psychology Review 2018

Background: Research has shown that top performers (10 per cent) often differ from median performers in terms of emotional and social intelligence. Objective: The purpose of this study is to review a one-year, one-to-one, person-centered business coaching programme with the management and the production team members within an organisat...