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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
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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
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This has not universally been the case within coaching as a practice or discipline. Whilst coaching practice has evolved it has not all been captured in theories and models, and many practitioners draw only narrowly upon coaching research. Writers like Stober and Grant have independently questioned this situation for some time.
Now, together, in The Handbook for Evidence-Based Coaching, they have, as editors brought together writers to summarise current coaching research in a way that is readily accessible by coaching practitioners. Their objective is clear: "Putting best practices to work for your clients", as the strapline states.
The book presents a cross section of single theory perspectives (e.g. humanistic, cognitive etc) and more integrative approaches (e.g. adult learning, positive psychology etc. It constitutes an excellent handbook. as always people might argue that it does not include some perspectives (e.g. NLP, though this may reflect the weaker level of integration and testability of this approach)or transpersonal coaching, but it is hard to find a better set of well written 'bitesize' accounts that can be considered and applied by coaching practitioners.
Professor John Sparrow
Professor of Occupational Psychology
Birmingham City University, UK
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