Evidence based coaching handbook : putting best practices to work for your clients / Dianne R. Stober and Anthony M. Grant, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stober, Dianne R.

Grant, Anthony (Anthony M.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Personal coaching.

Executive coaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 398 p.) : ill.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.

Summary:

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. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each. Recognizing the special character of coaching - that the coaching process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual - the authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a single, rigidly defined practice standard. The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various approaches and applies each to the same two case studies, demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods, assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches. The coverage includes: An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches; Systems and complexity theory; The behavioral perspective; The humanistic perspective; Cognitive coaching; Adult development theory; An integrative, goal-focused approach; Psychoanalytically informed coaching; Positive psychology; An adult learning approach; An adventure-based framework; Culture and coaching.

Contents:

Part I: Single-theory perspectives

Coaching from the humanistic perspective / Dianne R. Stober

People are complex and the world is messy : a behavior-based approach to executive coaching / David B. Peterson

Adult development theory and executive coaching practice / Jennifer Garvey Berger

Cognitive coaching / Jeffrey E. Auerbach

Psychoanalytically informed executive coaching / Seth Allcorn

Part II: Integrative and cross-theory approaches

An integrative goal-focused approach to executive coaching / Anthony M. Grant

An adult learning approach to coaching / Elaine Cox

Positive psychology : the science at the heart of coaching / Carol Kauffman

Coaching from a cultural perspective / Philippe Rosinski and Geoffrey N. Abbott

An adventure-based framework for coaching / Travis Kemp

Coaching from a systemic perspective : a complex adaptive conversation / Michael Cavanagh

Toward a contextual approach to coaching models / Dianne R. Stober and Anthony M. Grant

Appendix

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

ISBN:

9786610450312

9780470893630

047089363X

9781280450310

1280450312

9780471799634

0471799637