Description
Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsPreface.
Acknowledgments.
Contributors.
Introduction (Anthony M. Grant and Dianne R. Stober).
Part I: Single-Theory Perspectives.
Chapter 1: Coaching from the Humanistic Perspective (Dianne R. Stober).
Chapter 2: People Are Complex and the World Is Messy: A Behavior-Based Approach to Executive Coaching (David B. Peterson).
Chapter 3: Adult Development Theory and Executive Coaching Practice (Jennifer Garvey Berger).
Chapter 4: Cognitive Coaching (Jeffrey E. Auerbach).
Chapter 5: Psychoanalytically Informed Executive Coaching (Seth Allcorn).
Part II: Integrative and Cross-Theory Approaches.
Chapter 6: An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive Coaching (Anthony M. Grant).
Chapter 7: An Adult Learning Approach to Coaching (Elaine Cox).
Chapter 8: Positive Psychology: The Science at the Heart of Coaching (Carol Kauffman).
Chapter 9: Coaching from a Cultural Perspective (Philippe Rosinski and Geoffrey N. Abbott).
Chapter 10: An Adventure-Based Framework for Coaching (Travis Kemp).
Chapter 11: Coaching from a Systemic Perspective: A Complex Adaptive Conversation (Michael Cavanagh).
Chapter 12: Toward a Contextual Approach to Coaching Models (Dianne R. Stober and Anthony M. Grant).
Appendix: Workplace and Executive Coaching: A Bibliography from the Scholarly Business Literature (Anthony M. Grant).
Author Index.
Subject Index.
