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Mental health issues and challenging clients in executive coaching.

M Cavanagh, A Grant, T Kemp Australian Academic Press 2005

Coaching from a systemic perspective: A complex adaptive conversation.

M Cavanagh John Wiley & Sons 2006

The integration of mindfulness training and health coaching: An exploratory study

GB Spence, MJ Cavanagh, A Grant Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and P... 2008

Coaching has attracted much attention from health professionals interested in collaborative, person-centred approaches to motivating behaviour change. Whilst initial research supports the efficacy of coaching in health contexts, more theoretical and empirical work is needed. Based on recent work demonstrating the important role that mindf...

Coaching and positive psychology

A Grant, M Cavanagh Oxford University Press 2011

What story are you in? Four elements of a narrative approach to formulation in coaching

DB Drake Karnac Books 2010

Mindfulness in coaching: Philosophy, psychology or just a useful skill?.

M Cavanagh, G Spence John Wiley & Sons 2013

The Efficacy of Executive Coaching in Times of Organisational Change

AM Grant Journal of Change Management 2014

Decision-making and the coaching context

S Corrie, D Lane International Coaching Psychology Review 2013

As coaching psychologists we take pride in our decision-making skills. In offering our services to clients we make the implicit (or explicit) claim that we can support them in achieving results that they would not be able to achieve by themselves. Indeed, our claims to a professional status are predicated in part on the quality of the ...

From competencies to capabilities in the assessment and accreditation of coaches

T Bachkirova, C Smith International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

Organisations that use coaching programmes express their need for the assessment of coaches to ensure quality of provision. One solution to this need has been provided by professional bodies that assess coaches as part of their accreditation systems, often using competency frameworks. In this conceptual paper we open four specific deba...

What can Sydney tell us about coaching? Research with implications for practice from down under

A Grant Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

This paper details material from 2 presentations given at the 2015 Society of Consulting Psychology Mid-Winter Conference in San Diego, California, which presented a summary of the coaching research conducted at the Coaching Psychology Unit (CPU) at the University of Sydney. The CPU was established in 1999 with a mission to enhance the pe...

The self of the coach: Conceptualization, issues, and opportunities for practitioner development

T Bachkirova Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2016

This article offers a conceptual and developmental proposition based on the centrality of the practitioner’s self in the achievement of coaching outcomes. The central role of the self of the coach is established through a theoretical comparison with a competency (knowledge and skills) frame. Positioning the self in this way acknowledges t...

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...

How do novice business coaches identify the boundary between coaching and counselling?

A Eniola International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

The coaching/counselling boundary is much talked about and yet there has been little research into how novice coaches identify the boundary in practice. This article explores how novice business coaches attempt to identify the boundary in their practice. The research employs a constructivist grounded theory approach, with seven novice bus...

Group coaching in a large complex organisation: Lessons learnt from experience

S O’Connor International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

This article presents qualitative findings from a pilot group coaching program that was conducted within a large Australian public healthcare organisation. Using Nueman’s (2000) three phase coding system and Spector’s (1984) methodology, transcripts were analyzed for key themes (from both coachees’ and coaches’ perspectives) in response t...

Executive coaching in an era of complexity. Study 2. Applying formulation to coaching: A description of the PAIR Framework

L Kovacs, S Corrie International Coaching Psychology Review 2017

The business world is increasingly uncertain, unpredictable, complex and global, and coaches need methods that enable them to conceptualise and work effectively with the challenges that their executive clients now face. Following the research reported in study 1, this article describes the PAIR Framework, a coaching-specific approach to f...

Executive coaching in an era of complexity. Study 1. Does executive coaching work and if so how? A realist evaluation

L Kovacs, S Corrie International Coaching Psychology Review 2017

Objectives: Executive coaching is delivered within business environments that are highly complex and unpredictable. A current debate is whether novel approaches to coaching are needed to help leaders become skilled in navigating complexity. The objectives of this research were to: (i) develop a coaching framework for helping coaches work ...

Re-Conceptualising Coach Education from the Perspectives of Pragmatism and Constructivism

T Bachkirova, P Jackson, J Gannon, I Iordanou, A Myers Philosophy of Coaching: An International Journal 2017

The aim of this paper is to offer a coherent philosophical position to underpin the task of the education of coaches. Our argument builds from an analysis of the specificity and issues concerning the development of coaches. We provide a potential explanation of these issues by identifying a significant discrepancy between two typical conc...

The coaching ripple effect: The effects of developmental coaching on wellbeing across organizational networks

S O'O’Connor, M Cavanagh Psychology of Well-Being: Theory, Research and Family Practi... 2013

Background: It has been argued that the quality of daily interactions within organisations effects the wellbeing of both individuals and the broader organisation. Coaching for leadership development is one intervention often used to create organisation-wide changes in culture and wellbeing. Leadership style has been associated with employ...