The Project The Coaching Research Project 2005, conducted by Frank Bresser Consulting, was aimed to find out the key success factors for coaching programmes and to provide a well-founded, comprehensive and systematic top level framework for management action to best implement and improve coaching. The project was supported by the East London Business School, the Rheinische Fachhochschule Cologne and numerous …

Coaching as a profession – are you ‘in’ or ‘out’? In David Gray’s recent paper, “Journeys towards the professionalisation of coaching: dilemmas, dialogues and decisions along the global pathway” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol 4. No. 1, March 2011, 4-19),  he referred to Grant and Cavanagh’s argument that “creating a profession means making decisions about …

Coaching Research in Practice – Group Coaching – Are you really doing it? Posted with permission from ReciproCoach. While the title of this month’s Coaching Research in Practice, From GROW to GROUP: theoretical issues and a practical model for group coaching in organisations, suggests that its biggest contribution is a new acronym based model for group coaching, even more useful …

Leading Coach Andrew Boddice and his colleague, Peter Robinson, report on the findings of a survey that sets out to establish how business leaders in Scotland see the importance of culture and values in their organizations. If you would like to read the article, you can download the PDF below using DOWNLOAD button: Boddice Research: CA Mag Values survey

I hope you’ll take a look at the Frank Bresser Global Coaching Survey because there is a lot of interesting data about the state of our profession worldwide. Here are a few snippets from the Executive Summary: The density of business coaches in Europe is 1 coach to 45,000 inhabitants The density of business coaches in the USA plus Canada …