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.
Design/methodology/approach
– Data collected ...
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G Bozer, J Sarros, J Santora Journal of Management Development 2013
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– Executive coaching is gaining in popularity as a management developmental activity which facilitates organisational change for sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among coachee feedback receptivity, pre‐training motivation, learning goal orientation, developmental self‐efficacy, self‐report...
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M Cavanagh, A Grant, T Kemp Australian Academic Press 2005
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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J Passmore, S Jowett, K Kanakoglou Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2012
Executive coaching is an intervention that organizations often use to enhance managers' opportunities, develop skills, promote knowledge and reflectivity, as well as improve overall performance. An effective working relationship has been considered a necessary condition for the success of executive coaching. Thus, the present study aimed ...
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F Luthans, S Peterson Human Resource Management 2003
Wanted: High-performance work practices to gain a competitive advantage. An increasingly common answer to this desperate call is 360-degree programs; unfortunately, they have, at best, mixed reviews when empirically assessed. This study found that a way to improve the effectiveness of 360s may be to combine them with coaching focused on e...
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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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J Passmore, C Gibbes International Coaching Psychology Review 2007
This paper asks the question; what do coaching psychologists bring to the developing market of executive coaching? While psychologists are trained in human behaviour, this paper argues that their real unique contribution may be their ability to undertake high quality research. The paper moves to summarise executive coaching research to da...
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K Wasylyshyn Consulting Psychology Journal 2003
While executive coaching continues to mushroom as a practice area, there has been little outcome research. This article presents the results of a study that explored factors influencing the choice of a coach, executives' reactions to working with a coach, the pros and cons of both internal and external coaches, the focus of executive coac...
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A Grant International Coaching Psychology Review 2012
There is a considerable body of literature on goals and goal setting in the psychological literature, but little
of this has found its way into the scholarly coaching literature. This article draws on the goal-setting
literature from the behavioural sciences. It discusses a range of approaches to understanding the goal
construct, prese...
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AM Grant, L Curtayne, G Burton The Journal of Positive Psychology 2009
In a randomised controlled study, 41 executives in a public health agency received 360-degree feedback, a half-day leadership workshop, and four individual coaching sessions over 10 weeks. The coaching used a cognitive-behavioural solution-focused approach. Quantitative and qualitative measures were taken. This is the first published rand...
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PS Wise, LS Voss Lore Research Institute 2002
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F Kiel, E Rimmer, K Williams, M Doyle Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996
Presents a systems-oriented approach to the leadership development of top-level executives. A structured program is described that is designed to have a positive impact at the organizational level through focused work with the individual client. Leadership effectiveness is seen as strongly influenced by the individual's past, personal lif...
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RR Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1997
This article explores three major problems often encountered by consultants who are engaged to coach executives and who confront difficulties related to the character of their clients: executive character as a complex adaptive system that influences the unconscious aspects of organizational life, unconscious psychological conflict as a ke...
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C Sue-Chan, G Latham Applied Psychology 2004
Two studies in two different continents using two different dependent variables examined the relative effectiveness of external, peer, and self-coaches on the performance of participants in two MBA programs. The first study involved MBA students in Canada (n= 30). Those who were coached by an external coach exhibited higher teamplaying be...
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S Kochanowski, C Seifert, G Yukl Journal of Leadership \& Organizational Studies 2010
A field experiment was conducted to assess whether coaching would enhance the effectiveness of a feedback workshop for store managers in a regional supermarket chain. The experimental group of managers received individual coaching several weeks after attending a feedback workshop. The control group of managers also attended a feedback wor...
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LL Tobias Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 1996
Describes a systems-based approach to executive coaching that attempts to maximize the consideration of contextual factors. The case study of a 44-yr-old male executive illustrates this approach. The author notes that perhaps the greatest danger in coaching individuals from organizations in which there is no ongoing consulting relationshi...
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J Greene, A Grant Pearson Education 2003
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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-...
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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...
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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...
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RA Jones, AE Rafferty, M Griffin Leadership & Organization Development Journal 2006
Purpose
– This paper proposes to investigate the influence of executive coaching on managerial flexibility in order to build a stronger theoretical and empirical basis for executive coaching research.
Design/methodology/approach
– A repeated measures design was adopted. About 11 leaders participated in a leadership development progra...
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D Luebbe 2005
The purpose of the study was to investigate executive caching practices, coach behaviors, attributes, and skills that result in the most effective coaching outcomes as perceived by three groups-the coach, the coachee who is the recipient of coaching, and the human resource brokers of coaching services in an organization.
In the qualitati...
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G Bozer, JC Sarros International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2012
While executive coaching is a key means by which organisations and individuals build
executives’ capabilities, very little research has investigated how effective or beneficial this
development tool is to the individuals or the organisations in which they work. The purpose of this
study was to examine executive coaching effectiveness b...
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J Passmore International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2007
This article explores the difference between executive coaching and mentoring. It argues that the
boundary between the two is more blurred than is sometimes suggested. I n order to do this the
article draws on a range of literature in order to examine aspects of coaching and mentoring
behaviour. The paper goes on to argue that coachees...
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S Palmer, S O’Riordan The Coaching Psychologist 2011
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HE 3rd European Coaching Psychology conference will be hosted by the British Psychological
Society’s
Special Group in Coaching Psychology (BPS SGCP). This year the event
will
be held at City University London, on 13 and 14 December 2011. Further information
and registration details are available on the conference pages of the BPS ...
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