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Building successful leadership coaching relationships: Examining impact of matching criteria in a leadership coaching program.

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 ...

Getting the most out of a career coach.

E Chambers Wall Street Journal 2008

Coaches’ experience of critical moments in the coaching.

A Day, E de Haan, C Sills, E Blass International Coaching Psychology Review 2008

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative research study into critical moments in the coaching relationship. Interviews were completed with a total of 28 experienced coaches. The research highlighted that critical moments are unforeseen and characterised by intense emotions and anxiety within the coaching relationship. These momen...

I doubt therefore I coach: Critical moments in coaching practice.

E de Haan Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008

Clients' Critical Moments of Coaching: Toward a “Client Model” of Executive Coaching.

A Day, de Haan. E., C Bertie, C Sills Academy of Management Learning & Education 2010

Sixty-seven past and present clients of executive coaching wrote to us about the critical moments they experienced, and we interviewed eight of these. Our analysis indicates that for clients critical moments are not obviously essential to all good coaching. When critical moments do occur, they are positive and linked with important outcom...

Critical moments of clients and coaches: A direct-comparison study.

A Day, de Haan. E., C Bertie, C Sills International Coaching Psychology Review 2010

Purpose: In this study descriptions of critical moments of coaching as experienced by both executive coaches and their clients are analysed and compared, to find out more about what works in coaching conversations. Design/Methodology: This is a real-time direct-comparison study of coaches’ and clients’ critical-moment experiences with...

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 ...

Maximizing the impact of executive coaching: Behavioral change, organizational outcomes, and return on investment.

J McGovern, M Lindemann, M Vergara, S Murphy, L Barker, R Wa... Manchester Review 2001

Executive coaching as a transfer of training tool: Effects on productivity in a public agency.

G Olivero, K Bane, R Kopelman Public personnel management 1997

Examined the effects of executive coaching in a public sector municipal agency. 31 managers underwent a managerial training program, which was followed by 8 wks of 1-on-1 executive coaching. Training increased productivity by 22.4%. The coaching, which included goal setting, collaborative problem solving, practice, feedback, supervisory i...

The Coaching Impact Study: Measuring the Value of Executive Coaching.

B Schlosser, D Steinbrenner, E Kumata, J Hunt International Journal of Coaching in Organizations 2006

The impact of executive coaching and 360 feedback on leadership effectiveness.

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...

Five Conversations Toward a Field of Coaching Studies

I Stein, L Page Proceedings of the Fourth Coaching Research Symposium 2006

Better Business Results Through Coaching

U Kueffner 2005

Career benefits associated with mentoring for proteges: a meta-analysis.

T Allen, LT Eby, ML Poteet, E Lentz, L Lima Journal of applied psychology 2004

Meta-analysis was used to review and synthesize existing empirical research concerning the career benefits associated with mentoring for the protege. Both objective (e.g., compensation) and subjective (e.g., career satisfaction) career outcomes were examined. Comparisons of mentored versus nonmemored groups were included, along with relat...

Executive coaching: it works!

FA Kombarakaran, JA Yang, MN Baker, PB Fernandes Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008

Outcomes of this empirical study demonstrated that executive coaching is an effective method of leadership development. One hundred fourteen executives and 42 coaches were surveyed using instruments designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. Results indicated that executive change occurred in 5 areas: people management, re...

Measuring change: A psychometric approach to evaluating individual coaching outcomes

DB Peterson Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organiza... 1993

Measuring and maximizing the business impact of executive coaching.

A Levenson Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2009

This article addresses the conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring the business impact of executive coaching. A framework is introduced for identifying the business impacts of coaching. An application of the framework is presented using exploratory study data from 12 matched coach-coachee pairs showing varying degrees o...

Creating the conditions for receptivity of feedback

L Lewis International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2015

Feedback is generally accepted as key to improving business performance and is integral to coach practice. However, the anticipation of this activity can elicit feelings of anxiety and fear. Observations from business and coach practice developed a perception that feedback has negative connotations and is often avoided. The PPR Coachin...

Teachers’ experiences of an introductory coaching training workshop in Scotland: An interpretative phenomenological analysis

M Barr, C van Nieuwerburgh International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: This study sought to explore teachers’ experiences of a coaching psychology intervention – an introductory coaching training workshop that included a positive psychology intervention and episodes of narrative-collaborative group coaching. Design: A qualitative design was applied to explore the participants’ experiences. Int...

Using Clean Language to explore the subjectivity of coachees’ experience and outcomes

S Linder-Pelz, J Lawley International Coaching Psychology Review 2015

Objectives: This paper aims to contribute methodologically and substantively to understanding how coachees experience and evaluate coaching. First, we explore the use of ‘Clean Language’ as a phenomenological approach to coaching research, including the eliciting and analysing of data into findings and insights for coaches and coach tr...

Do we need alliance factor definitions unique to coaching? Clients’ operational definitions of research-based definitions

M Lopez International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentori... 2017

Vague definitional descriptors of the Coaching Alliance Common Factor measurement threaten construct validity in coaching research. Further, differing coach and client perceptions of the helping relationship, and coaching and therapeutic client dissimilarities compound the risk. Ten clients representing a global leadership coaching practi...

Towards A Process-Based Typology Of Workplace Coaching: An Empirical Investigation

A Myers, T Bachkirova Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2018

Research into work-based coaching has been prompted by the need of a new discipline to demonstrate its effectiveness, often assuming that coaching is a homogeneous activity. The multifaceted and multipurposeful nature of coaching now requires the development of meaningful typologies that reflect this diversity and are grounded in the anal...