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David Clutterbuck, Mentoring And Coaching: A Commentary, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

David Clutterbuck has made tremendous contributions to both coaching and mentoring theory and practice over the past three decades. One of the pleasures of reading David Clutterbuck's work is that he communicates clearly without jargon, a tribute perhaps to his journalistic background. He captures what is known or believed about a topic at the time and is not afraid to say that things have changed or that his predictions have not yet come to pass. By articulating the conceptions of coaching and mentoring at a particular point in time, Clutterbuck allows us to recognise the changes that take place over …

The Case For Coaching As An Approach To Addressing Challenges In Doctoral Supervision, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

This paper identifies key challenges of doctoral supervision, particularly relating to completion and to developing autonomy and quality of thinking in doctoral candidates. The paper then explores how coaching might be used to address such challenges, with practical examples of coaching conversations.

How And Why Do Managers Use Coaching Skills?, Grace Mccarthy, Julia Ahrens

Grace McCarthy

While the evidence base for coaching has been increasing rapidly in the past decade, relatively little is known about how managers coach, what approaches they use, the purposes for which they use coaching and the benefits they experience. This paper provides a brief overview of the coaching literature in relation to the managerial context, outlines the method used in the research reported here, summarises the findings of a survey conducted among Australian managers in March 2012 to explore the above questions, draws conclusions and makes recommendations for further research. Whilst a coaching approach might be initially challenging and time-consuming to …

Clever Fuehren = Coachen!, Julia Ahrens, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

No abstract provided.

Captaining The Gb And Ireland Team To Victory In The 2011 Walker Cup: A Commentary, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

Nigel Edwards highlights several positive leadership behaviours in his captaincy of the winning 2011 Walker Cup team. In this response article, I will focus on selfefficacy. Self-efficacy was defined by Bandura [1] as "the belief that a person has of being capable of accomplishing a given task", in this case the task being for the players to win their games and the team to win the cup. Self-efficacy is not only important in sport. In business, self-efficacy has been shown to lead to improved performance, enhanced creativity and increased productivity [2]. However what is sometimes missing in the academic literature …

Challenges Of The Coaching Manager, Grace Mccarthy, Julia Ahrens

Grace McCarthy

This paper explores the growing practice of managerial coaching. Much of the coaching literature is set in the context of an external coach coming into an organisation. However managers are increasingly being expected to coach their employees, a change in role which can create tensions. This paper examines the literature on coaching managers and identifies key differences in the issues faced by coaching managers and by internal/external coaches. The same coach training is often provided to both full-time coaches and coaching managers. The paper also discusses implications for coach training.

Sharing The Research Journey - Developing Research Skills In A Coaching Masters Program, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

Powerpoint presentation presented at the Western Business Management Conference, France

Juengere Manager - Aeltere Mitarbeiter, Julia Ahrens, Grace Mccarthy

Grace McCarthy

No abstract provided.

The Marshmallow Challenge, Connie I. Reimers-Hild

Kimmel Education and Research Center: Faculty and Staff Publications

I discovered the Marshmallow Challenge when taking an online course through Stanford called, “A Crash Course in Creativity” with Dr. Tina Seelig (http://venture-lab.org/creativity).

The exercise has been used with groups of all ages from around the world by Tom Wujec, who Seelig calls an, “award-winning designer and innovator” (p. 144).

How do you use the Marshmallow Challenge? I use it in a number of different ways:

1. As an icebreaker
2. As a teambuilding exercise
3. To stimulate creativity and innovation
4. As an experiential exercise that adds FUN to learning!

Seelig and I have the same thoughts on the importance of …

Further Development Of Evidence-Based Coaching: Lessons From The Rise And Fall Of The Human Potential Movement, Gordon Spence

Gordon B Spence

Although several authors have argued for the development of an evidence-based approach to coaching practice, few attempts have been made to draw support for these arguments by examining events of the recent past. This paper seeks to learn some lessons from history by exploring events surrounding the rise and fall of the human potential movement (HPM), which occurred between the 1940s and 1970s. The demise of the HPM is of relevance to the coaching industry because it powerfully illustrates how the promise and potential of innovative practices can be easily lost when its practitioners become disconnected from theoretically sound rationales …

The Integration Of Mindfulness Training And Health Coaching: An Exploratory Study, Anthony M Grant, Michael Cavanagh, Gordon Spence

Gordon B Spence

Coaching has attracted much attention from health professionals interested in collaborative, person-centred approaches to motivating behaviour change. Whilst initial research supports the efficacy of coaching in health contexts, more theoretical and empirical work is needed. Based on recent work demonstrating the important role that mindfulness plays in self-regulation, it was hypothesised that the efficacy of health coaching could be enhanced through the inclusion of Mindfulness Training (MT). To test this, 45 adult were randomly assigned to three health programmes for eight weeks. Using a crossover design, two groups received an alternative delivery of MT and cognitive-behavioural, solution-focused (CB-SF) coaching, whilst …

Coaching And Cross Disciplinary Collaboration: More Complexity And Chaos?, Gordon Spence

Gordon B Spence

In this article, the author reflects on the cross-disciplinary approach of working. It is stated that coaching psychologists are not well equipped for working as their theories are based on linear empiricism and focus on prediction and control rather than engagement with unpredictable emergent and ongoing processes. It is suggested the complexity should be learned through an array of different perspectives.

Coaching With Self-Determination Theory In Mind: Using Theory To Advance Evidence-Based Coaching Practice, Gordon Spence, Lindsay Oades

Gordon B Spence

The scholarly coaching literature has advanced considerably in the past decade. However, a review of the existing knowledge base suggests that coaching practice and research remains relatively uninformed by relevant psychological theory. In this paper it will be argued that Self-Determination Theory (SDT; Deci & Ryan, 1985) presents as a useful theoretical framework for coaching as it can help understand coaching practice at both macro and micro levels. The utility of SDT as a theoretical framework for coaching is explored, with particular attention given to the role that coaching would appear to play in the satisfaction of three basic psychological …

David Clutterbuck, Mentoring And Coaching: A Commentary, Grace Mccarthy

Sydney Business School - Papers

David Clutterbuck has made tremendous contributions to both coaching and mentoring theory and practice over the past three decades. One of the pleasures of reading David Clutterbuck's work is that he communicates clearly without jargon, a tribute perhaps to his journalistic background. He captures what is known or believed about a topic at the time and is not afraid to say that things have changed or that his predictions have not yet come to pass. By articulating the conceptions of coaching and mentoring at a particular point in time, Clutterbuck allows us to recognise the changes that take place over …

Critical Incidents In Cross-Cultural Coaching: The View From German Coaches, Julia Milner, Esther Ostmeier, Ronald Franke

Sydney Business School - Papers

The importance of a cultural perspective in coaching is increasingly significant for coaching practitioners and academics living in a globalised world. The question remains as to how the coaching methods rooted in the Western approach can be applied in the context of other (national) cultures. Using semi-structured interviews and based on the critical incidents technique, fifteen German coaching experts were interviewed to determine those critical incidents they experienced in cross-cultural coaching settings. The results show incidents in four main areas: communication, coach-client relationship, coaching setting and role understanding. These are aimed at improving outcomes but not at the expense of …