New Directions in Evidence-Based Coaching

ISBN-13: 9783639044898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 324 str.

Gordon Spence

Opis

Coaching seeks to optimise personal functioning and well-being by developing the best in people. Its widespread appeal has seen it grow rapidly over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, coaching practice has run well ahead of related theory and research, leaving the coaching industry without solid foundations and little support for the claims often made about its effectiveness.This book outlines a diverse body of work designed to further the development of evidence-based coaching. It commences by discussing important issues related to the professionalisation of the industry, before moving on to compare the impact of individual and peer-based coaching programmes. The second half of the book examines the role that awareness and attention play in self-regulation and tests the efficacy of a coaching framework that integrates mindfulness training and cognitive-behavioural, solution-focused coaching.The research presented in this book should interest both coaching practitioners and researchers, or any one else interested in using coa­ching methodologies to enhance personal and/or professional func­tioning.

O autorze

Spence, Gordon Dr Gordon Spence: Performance Psychologist, Executive Coach and Researcher. PhD Thesis in Coaching Psychology completed at University of Sydney. Post Doctoral Fellow at Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney working on the largest coaching-based Leadership Development Research Project yet undertaken.