Evidence-Based Coaching Volume 1: Theory, Research and Practice from the Behavioural Sciences

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Coaching in its many forms is emerging as an exciting and important branch of positive psychology. Evidence-Based Coaching (Vol.1): Theory, Research and Practice From the Behavioural Sciences is a landmark in coaching publishing — a collection of 15 peer-reviewed chapters by leading author–practitioners that places the practice of coaching in the context of up to the moment theory and research. The book presents key presentations from the First Evidence-Based Coaching Conference, which took place in July 2003 at the University of Sydney, Australia. The aim of the conference used to be to provide an academically grounded forum that would foster the development of a broad, evidence-based knowledge foundation and facilitate an intelligent, open and informed dialogue between coaches.

The last 10 years have seen a rapid increase in interest in life coaching and in executive and workplace coaching. In the workplace, coaching is beginning to move from being the recent management fad to a mainstream component of organisation development and talent management. This growing popularity of coaching as a human and organisational change methodology carries with it enormous opportunities and challenges for individuals who deliver coaching products and services and coach training.
The term ‘evidenced-based coaching’ used to be coined by staff of the Coaching Psychology Unit of the University of Sydney to describe executive, personal and life coaching that goes beyond adaptations of the preferred self-help or personal development genre, is purposefully grounded in the behavioural and social sciences and is unequivocally based on up-to-date scientific knowledge.

An excellent resource and guide for best practice, this book is very important reading for coaches, psychologists, managers and human resources specialists who need to extend their theoretical and practical understanding of coaching in its more than a few forms.

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