What works in executive coaching : understanding coaching outcomes through quantitative research and practice-based evidence / Erik de Haan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haan, Erik de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executive coaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2021]

Summary:

"This book reviews the full coaching outcome research literature to examine the arguments and evidence behind the use of executive coaching. Erik de Haan presents the definitive guide to what works in coaching and what changes coaching brings about, both for individual coaches and for organisations and commissioners. Accessibly written and based on contemporary quantitative research into coaching effectiveness, this book considers whether we know that coaching works, and, if so, whom it works for, and what it offers to those involved. What Works in Executive Coaching considers the entire body of academic literature on quantitative research in executive and workplace coaching, assessing the significant results and explaining how to apply them. Each chapter contains direct applications to coaching practice and clearly evaluates the evidence, defining what really works in executive coaching. Alongside its companion volume Critical Moments in Executive Coaching, this book is an essential guide to evidence-based effectiveness in coaching. It will be a key text for all coaching practitioners, including those in training"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Highlights of the book

Introduction

An interlude before Chapter 1

1 Does executive coaching work? Is coaching worth the effort?

Part A: some controversies

Controversy 1: how universal and generalisable are the results?

Controversy 2: choice-supportive biases skewing the results towards false positives

Controversy 3: if the same people are asked to measure all variables, biases will result

Controversy 4: the Hawthorne effect

Controversy 5: realistic settings do not satisfy lab research conditions

Controversy 6: the diminishing power of statistical tests on the same data

Controversy 7: nonattendance of participants in coaching and in research

Controversy 8: nonrepresentative samples

Controversy 9: coaching is not very sharply defined

Part B: how to establish whether coaching works

Part C: overview of outcomes of coaching research with randomised control groups

1 Randomised controlled experiments in health coaching

2 Randomised controlled experiments in workplace coaching

3 Limitations of past research

Part D: what it means for coaching practice

An interlude before Chapter 2

2 What works in executive coaching? What makes coaching really worthwhile?

Controversy 1: what to do with studies of a different standard than RCTs

Controversy 2: the technique versus common-factors debate

Controversy 3: difficult to compare different studies when they use different constructs

Controversy 4: where does 'technique' end and do 'common factors' begin?

Part B: how to establish the 'active ingredients'

Part C: overview of more evidence with an eye for possible active ingredients of coaching

1 Overview of coaching outcome research I: evaluation or field studies.

2 Overview of coaching outcome research II: incorporating objective outcome variables

3 Manager-as-coach research with objective outcome variables

4 Overview of coaching outcome research III: employing control groups

5 Overview of coaching research which compares conditions

6 Overview of coaching research which compares techniques of coaching

7 Overview of coaching research which compares virtual and face-to-face coaching

An interlude before Chapter 3

3 The coaching relationship as 'best predictor'? How does the working alliance help to achieve outcomes?

Controversy 1: does the 'medical model' apply?

Controversy 2: does the 'therapy model' apply?

Controversy 3: causality is still open to debate

Controversy 4: the puzzle of 'the' relationship

Controversy 5: what is the core of 'the' relationship?

Controversy 6: how to optimise the relationship factor

Part B: what we need to know about this 'best predictor'

Part C: overview of coaching relationship outcome research

1 A brief review of research on the coaching relationship

2 A brief review of relevant mentoring outcome research

3 Longitudinal research on the coaching relationship

4 An interpretation of these findings

5 Future research: time to think differently about active ingredients

An interlude before Chapter 4

4 Which outcomes does coaching actually deliver? What does executive coaching work on?

Controversy 1: very high diversity of study methods

Controversy 2: some contradictory findings

Controversy 3: the possibility of moderation

Controversy 4: it's hard to see the wood for the trees, because of many weak results

Part B: how to establish different coaching outcomes.

Part C: overview of what we know about outcome measures

1 Changes to objective measures

2 Changes to multi-source performance measures

3 Changes to self-rated personality measures

4 Changes to self-rated preparedness or well-being measures

5 Changes to self-rated goal-attainment measures

6 Changes for the coach rather than the coachee

An interlude before Chapter 5

5 What perceptual biases may be at play? Can we trust a coach's perceptions of coaching?

Controversy 1: what is so bad about the biases in self-scores?

Controversy 2: what is so bad about using self-scores for research?

Controversy 3: is the distinction between self- and other-scores not artificial?

Part B: how to establish coaching self-perception outcomes

1 Research showing coaching changes personal ratings of performance

2 Research showing the coach's mindset about change is an important predictor of outcomes

3 Research showing that mindsets of coach and coachee about change strengthen one another

4 Research showing that coaches develop perceptual biases in looking at their own skills

Part C: overview of what we know about perceptual biases in coaches about their own coaching

1 A brief review of research on coaching interventions

2 Research on coaching interventions using the Coaching Behaviours Questionnaire

3 Significant differences found for gender, age, job, and nationality of the coach

An interlude before Chapter 6

6 What about negative side effects of coaching? Are there risks? Can coaching do harm?

Controversy 1: can we actually treat 'negative' outcomes separate from 'positive' ones?.

Controversy 2: is there an assumption that reported experiences are significant outcomes?

Controversy 3: there seems to be a difference between the coaching and mentoring literature

Part B: how to establish negative side effects of coaching

Part C: overview of what we know about side effects

1 What do coaches need to know about negative (side) effects in coaching?

2 What expert advice can we give to coaches who want to do quantitative research?

3 What moral advice can we give to coaches who want to do quantitative research?

References

Subject index

Author index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-312705-3

1-003-12705-3

1-000-37180-8

1-000-37182-4

9781003127055

OCLC:

1204264818