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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Personal coaches are a hot commodity among executives these days. But what is the coach, exactly? Strategic advisor? Psychoanalyst? Fashion accessory?
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Coaching is emerging as a major professional development and performance enhancement process. There are, however, few professional development programmes aimed at coaches themselves, and no internationally recognized qualification or professional standard. Much of the literature on coaching has been written by those with a human psycholog...
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R Hargrove Jossey-Bass 2008
Book Description: When the first edition of Masterful Coaching was published, it quickly became the standard resource for anyone who was a coach, considering becoming a coach, or curious about being an extraordinary coach. In this completely revised third edition of his groundbreaking book, Hargrove presents his profound insights into the...
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Y Ives International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2008
This paper sets out the argument that quite fundamental issues, both theoretical and practical, divide the various approaches to coaching. It does not suggest that any one approach is better or right; each approach would be more appropriate in particular situations. However, by understanding more clearly the nature of the difference betwe...
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R Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2004
This article introduces the 3rd Consulting Psychology Journal special issue on executive coaching and briefly examines the current status of the scientific knowledge base in the field. It compares the emergence of the empirical literature on coaching to the historical pathway created by psychotherapy and hypothesizes that research on exec...
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MBA O'Neill Jossey-Bass 2007
Book Description: Praise for Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart "In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." --Daryl R. Conner, CEO and president, ODR-USA, Inc. "Mary Beth O'Neill's executive coaching gave me the ...
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E Thach Leadership & Organization Development Journal 2002
Does executive coaching really work? Does it help improve leadership effectiveness and productivity? This action research study answers these questions by tracking the progress of 281 executives participating in a six-month coaching and 360 feedback process. The results suggest that the combination of multi-rater feedback and individual c...
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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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The use of executive coaching as a developmental intervention for managers has increased dramatically during the past decade. Consequently, there has been a burgeoning practitioner literature on the topic of executive coaching. Empirical research on executive coaching, however, has lagged far behind, and theoretical work on the processes ...
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Employee development can take a variety of forms including “developmental interactions” such as coaching, mentoring, apprenticeship, and action learning. The broad literature on approaches to development lacks agreement on what these constructs represent. Rather than impose new construct definitions on the field, the current research addr...
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RR Kilburg Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2001
A review of the recent literature demonstrated that there are virtually no articles or research papers on the subject of intervention adherence or compliance in executive coaching. This article begins to address that deficit by presenting an 8-component model of coaching effectiveness that includes such elements as the coach--and client--...
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RA Jones, AE Rafferty, M Griffin Leadership & Organization Development Journal 2006
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– 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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LR Stern Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2004
Executive coaching (EC) has grown significantly in the past decade as an important organizational consulting intervention. This article proposes a working definition for EC that specifies its process and methods, differentiates it from other forms of coaching, and suggests a set of perspectives, principles, and approaches needed to guide ...
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J Niemes Journal of Organizational Excellence 2002
Today's transformation initiatives—everything from Enterprise Resource Planning to Six Sigma—often require the development of new abilities in a company's leaders. Executive coaching is a powerful tool that can be used to rapidly introduce new skills into a company's leadership ranks. For both high-potential executives and those newly ent...
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K Bunch Human Resource Development Review 2007
Organizations spend as much as US$200 billion annually on training and
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A Whybrow, S Palmer International Coaching Psychology Review 2006
Objectives: This paper presents the findings of two surveys exploring the practices and perspectives of the
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Design: The study was cross-sectional in design
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K Griffiths, M Campbell International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2008
Attempts to standardise coaching and develop frameworks of accreditation for professional
coaches currently appear to be growing as rapidly as the coaching industry itself. Coach training organisations, professional associations and universities are vying to regulate the industry through the development of competencies and standards. How...
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S Linder-Pelz International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2008
In this conceptual article we suggest that understanding clients’ self-reflexive processes enables
coaches to become even more effective in helping clients make changes in how they think, feel
and act. Our aim is also to throw light on the relationship between metacognition, change and
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P Jackson International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2005
This study is exploratory and looks for meaningful ways of differentiating coaching
approaches used by UK practitioners as a way of establishing a more solid foundation for
comparative and evaluative research. The paper briefly explores how coaching is defined,
arguing that current definitions provide an inadequate foundation for theor...
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V Vaartjes International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2005
Coaching-based development is growing in prominence as a means of enhancing the
achievement of leadership outcomes in Australian business. This article seeks to demonstrate
how the application of the practices associated with action learning can be applied to support
the achievement of practical outcomes within group-based executive co...
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C Hannah International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2004
This phenomenological case study, set within the UK Rail Industry used Soft Systems
Methodology (Checkland and Scholes, 1991) to answer the central research question “Can
workplace coaching improve individual performance among staff and raise levels of
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