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Item Type: Professional Section
Title: On Coachability: How practitioners determine whether someone can be coached
Author(s): Katelyn J. Cavanaugh and Stephanie A. Zajac with Eric D. Middleton, Ryan P. Brown, D. Brent Smith, and Courtney L. Holladay
Abstract: This paper aims to understand how coachability is defined by coaches, what methods are used to make the determination, and if differences exist based on coaches’ backgrounds. We use surveys...
Keywords: Defining coachability, practitioners, assessing coachability
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Reflections on establishing on-line coaching for health workers during Covid-19; why we will never go back to business as usual
Author(s): Simon Griffiths and Darren Leech - NHS (UK) Elect
Abstract: Developed as a consequence of practice-based responses to the Covid-19 pandemic in England, this article will interest coaches, researchers, organisational development, and training professionals. It provides a summary of how...
Keywords: Coaching, Online, Healthcare, Covid-19
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Creating a coaching culture through reflective practice to reduce organisational blame culture
Author(s): Dr Mel Bull and Dr Paul Stokes, Sheffield Hallam University
Abstract: This paper draws on the use of reflective practice interventions with senior managers and the extent to which reflective practice has enabled participants to contribute to the development of a...
Keywords: Coaching culture, reflective practice, organisational development
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Bottom up integration factors : a holistic mentoring approach
Author(s): Gabriela Galvao Andersson & Yuliana Wiborg
Abstract: In this article we examine challenges and barriers immigrants experience from their own perspectives, on the way to the Swedish labour market, according to life world theory; bottom up/individual factors,...
Keywords: holistic mentoring, coaching, integration, migration, Sweden
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Mentor motivation and effectiveness characteristics at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA)
Author(s): Lt Col David D. Huston (PhD) - USAFA’s Center for Character and Leadership Development (CCLD)
Abstract: This paper examines mentoring at the United States Air Force Academy in terms of mentor motivational and effectiveness characteristics of faculty members to determine if these characteristics are associated with...
Keywords: Mentoring, Emotional Intelligence, Motivation, Effectiveness
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: COACHING: An effective approach to clinical leadership in military settings
Author(s): Richard Sutherland, Alison Keyworth and Helen Goodall
Abstract: This paper argues that the attributes of an effective clinical leader or healthcare manager in military settings include the following coaching skills: ability to build rapport; ask effective questions; excellent...
Keywords: Coaching, transformational leadership, clinical leadership, high performing teams, military healthcare
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Toward a coaching culture in an Australian Public Sector Agency
Author(s): Jacqueline Jago - Founder and CEO Bloom Coaching & Consulting, Peer/Group Coaching Expert, DDO Champion
Abstract: This study details coaching products based on key frameworks from adaptive learning theory (particularly as articulated by Kegan and Lahey at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in various publications)...
Keywords: Immunity to Change, Deliberately Developmental Organisation, adaptive learning, peer coaching, organisational culture
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: Improving the effectiveness of the coach-client matching process: deriving learning from a Pan-African experience in the financial sector
Author(s): Sophie Bruas, Associate of Career Connections – Academy of Executive Coaching (AoEC), East Africa
Abstract: Designing an effective coaching programme raises many questions about how best to match coachees and coaches, such as how do you achieve the best fit and what role does personality,...
Keywords: Pairing, Matching, Coaching relationship
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Facilitating change: coaching for psychological flexibility
Author(s): Martin Bless, Agilience Sàrl, Switzerland
Abstract: In the 1960’s, Levitt (1960) urged companies to be closer to their customers. In his article “Marketing Myopia”, referring to the demise of the railroads in the USA, he wrote,...
Keywords: Flexibility, acceptance, values, commitment, and agility
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: ‘Hard-wired’ personal styles have practice and personal development implications for clinical leaders and coaches
Author(s): Dr Darren Leech, Director, NHS Elect, London, UK
Abstract: This article is about the implications of this ‘hard-wiring’ on personal style, along with the future development of clinical staff – particularly those who undertake management or leadership duties (or...
Keywords: Coaching; Mentoring; Leadership; Personal styles; Clinicians; Healthcare; Situational Leadership
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: The mystery of coaching mastery
Author(s): Stephen Burt, Gibsonstarr Ltd
Abstract: This article draws on primary research with expert coaches, established research on skill acquisition and “parallel worlds” of practice to offer a new model of coaching mastery. Coaches know that...
Keywords: Mastery, development, technique, self-mastery, self-expression
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Patterns in mentoring conversations related to learning
Author(s): Harm Tillema & Gert van der Westhuizen. Department of Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg South Africa
Abstract: This study on mentoring is an explorative inquiry into the role of conversations as a vehicle for learning for mentees. An analysis of mentoring conversations aimed for learning uses a...
Keywords: Mentoring for learning; interaction patterns; learning conversations, reflection.
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Can mentoring young people in post sixteen education affect their identity and preparation for transition to university or employment?
Author(s): Dr Samuel Robert Coombes, Senior Lecturer, Greenwich University, UK
Abstract: In this research the mentors are adults who work in schools and colleges to support young people with pastoral issues and offer any advice and guidance required. The mentors in...
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Survey of mentors’ roles in guiding and supporting novice teachers in Dangila district elementary schools, Ethiopia
Author(s): Asrat Dagnew Kelkay, Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the roles and responsibilities of mentors in guiding and supporting novice teachers in primary schools. In doing so, an attempt was made...
Keywords: Mentoring, Mentors, Novice teacher, Guiding and Supporting, and Elementary school
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: A reflection on 2012
Abstract: As part of EMCCs 25th anniversary celebrations in 2017 this journal contains a review and update of a number of articles written in the 2012 for EMCCS 20th anniversary year.
Title: Helping independent coaches develop their coaching business: – A holistic approach to supervision or an opportunity for supervisors to exploit their position?
Author(s): Authors: Michelle Lucas (Greenfields Consultancy) & Amanda Larcombe (Optima)
Abstract: This piece reflects a conversation between two supervisors who discovered the scope of supervision support they offer clients was remarkably similar, despite quite different backgrounds. Of particular interest to them...
Keywords: Coaching supervision, business development, function
Item Type: Professional Section
Title: Running ahead: getting a return on Investment for coaching
Author(s): Christopher Neesham; Josephine Palermo
Abstract: This case study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a coaching and leadership development program conducted in an international organisation based in Eastern Europe. Eighteen senior managers participated in the...
Keywords: Coaching effectiveness, return on investment, evaluation
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: An integrative literature review on the impact of life coaching on the quality of life and well-being.
Author(s): Joanna Jarosz
Abstract: There is a continuous need for empirical evidence regarding the impact and experience The demand on techniques, approaches and processes that increase quality of life and well-being is very high...
Keywords: Happiness, Life Coaching, Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Well-Being
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: The influence of protégé input to the match on mentoring processes: an experimental investigation
Author(s): Dana L. Kendall, Seattle Pacific University, Kimberly A. Smith-Jentsch, University of Central Florida
Abstract: We employed a longitudinal, experimental approach to examine the effects of allowing protégés to choose their own mentor on the effectiveness of an online peer mentoring program at a four-year...
Keywords: Formal mentoring, input to match, e-mentoring, undergraduate peer mentoring
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: Coaching leadership training in high-tech settings: an analysis of a coaching leadership program in the swedish telecom industry
Author(s): Max Rapp Ricciardi, Joseph Schaller, Danilo Garcia and Trevor Archer
Abstract: There is a continuous need for empirical evidence regarding the impact and experience of coaching leadership. The purpose of this study was to describe the effects from a coaching leadership...
Keywords: Coaching leadership, Coaching culture, Feedback, Active Listening, SBR-model, GROW-model
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: Evaluating leadership coaching in organisations
Author(s): Dr Doug MacKie
Abstract: This evaluation survey was conducted following a leadership coaching program in which 37 senior leaders and managers participated. The survey aimed to examine the impact of the leadership coaching program...
Keywords: Strength-based leadership coaching, Formative evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Return on Investment
Item Type: Reviewed Section
Title: What is cross-cultural mentoring?
Author(s): Roxanne B Reeves PhD
Abstract: Cross-cultural mentoring (CCM) has emerged to meet the needs of today’s complex, fast changing, global environment. This article examines existing descriptions of common cross-cultural mentoring relationships across 123 sources and...
Keywords: integrative literature review, cross-cultural mentoring, intercultural mentoring, formation of consistent terminology
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