Report One: Tactics and Strategies
This first report not only provides a general description of the project and the methods used (which we have removed from the subsequent reports), but also offers results from the two surveys regarding the respondents’ perspectives on the tactics and strategies they engage as professional coaches. A conclusion is reached regarding the precision, subtlety and finesse of the coaching process.
Report Two: Challenge, Autonomy and Support
The second report continues to report on the general perspectives offered by survey respondents—focusing on responses to several of the list of survey questions. A conclusion was reached regarding the need for collaborative coaching inquiry.
Report Three: Influence and Learning
This third report concerns the ways in which professional coaches are influenced in their work and the manner of learning that has occurred in their life. I introduce the concepts of hard and soft learning and turn to the insights offered by Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel-prize winning behavioral economist, in his description of fast and slow thinking.
Report Four: Does Gender Make a Difference?
In the fourth report we look to see if men and women differ in their perspectives regarding the professional coaching that they practice. We found very few overall differences in their perspective.
Report Five: Does Age Make a Difference?
As in the case of gender, there were few significant differences to be found as a function of the professional coach’s age – though future analyses will be conducted that more discriminating regarding differentiation of various age groups.
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