Coaching Research

2016 Poster Award Honorable Mention: The Role of Coaching and Mentoring in Building a Meaningful Pathway From Childhood to a Chosen Profession and in the Development of Key Skills for the 21st Century

The poster presents a study to evaluate the effectiveness of coaching on the development of creativity, resilience and social skills in healthy teenage boys. The design is a mixed-methods/ pre-post measures. While still a pilot study, it illustrates significant increases in creativity and social skills were confirmed, though not in resilience....

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2016 Poster Award Honorable Mention: The Lived Experiences of Executive Coaches

This is a phenomenological study with the purpose of exploring the lived experiences of executive coaching practitioners – to understand patterns of excellent coaching practices. It is an excellent example of ‘bottom-up” inductive analysis. How do the practitioners describe the qualities of an effective executive coaching encounter....

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2016 Poster Award Honorable Mention: Strategies and Preliminary Results for a Vision-based Coaching Supplement to a Graduate Student Career Course

This poster is also based on a randomized controlled study to evaluate the impact of supplementing a career course with individual coaching (for post graduate students) based on intentional change theory and self-determination theory. The course +coaching group illustrated higher impact on several measures....

2016 First Place Poster Award Winner: An Investigation of Goal-Focused and Process- Oriented Approaches to Executive Coaching Using Random Assignment and a Switching Replications Design

This poster presents a study comparing the effectiveness of goal-focused and process-oriented coaching approaches (senior managers from the same organization). In included random assignment to four initial conditions: 2 coaching and 2 control group -in a switching replications design....

A morphological and bibliological analysis of the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring 2003-2012

This article presents a bibliological and morphological analysis of the research articles in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring (IJEBCM). The findings highlight the most frequently referenced journals and books and the demographic of the authors....

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What constitutes evidence-based coaching? A two-by-two framework for distinguishing strong from weak evidence for coaching

There has been an almost exponential growth in the amount of coaching-specific and coaching-related research over the past ten years.  At the same time there has been considerable interest in the development of evidence-based approaches to coaching, and many coaching practitioners have incorporated the phrase into their terms of reference f...

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Getting published in Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice – our top 10 tips for enhancing your work

We need to further the evidence base for coaching, to increase our knowledge base and enhance our understanding. Based on our editorial experience, we provide our readers with a framework for enhancing manuscript quality and therefore chances of publication....

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Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives

Experts review coaches’ roles, examine research, and provide in-depth discussions of specific coaching models, including literacy, cognitive, instructional, content-focused, classroom management, and leadership coaching.

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Evidence Based Coaching Handbook

The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works....

2011 Conference Video: Linking Theory, Practice & Results in Coaching

Panel, consisting of Phil Levendusky, PhD; Edward Phillips, MD; Susan David, PhD; Robert Biswas-Diener, PhD; and Richard Boyatzis, Phd speak on the topic "Linking Theory, Practice and Results in Coaching at the 2011 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference.

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