The Library of Professional Coaching, in collaboration with choice, the magazine of professional coaching, the Institute for Research on Professional Coaching, and Professional School of Psychology conducted a survey to identify the current and future leadership needs of the field of Executive Coaching. The results were fascinating, and the top three topics revealed were: Executive coaching and the new world …

Based on decades of informal, unverified, and unscientific observation, the checklist for obstacles to Effective Coaching (EF) includes:

Stress is, if not one of the main reasons people come to coaching, certainly is something that comes up with almost every client. I once heard the amazing (and now deceased) Dr. Paul Pearsall speak at an ICF Conference about having a balanced, healthy unstressed heart. His conclusion—it is perhaps impossible in today’s world unless you live on a remote …

In evidence-based practice, skills and theory are integrated and applied in the context of the individual client—the situation she is in, her individual needs and her personal preferences.

This article reports on our efforts to develop a meaningful methodology for the study of return on investment broadly construed, of executive coaching

This article is about the marketing strategies over the past eleven years that have made the most sense given the changing landscape of professional coaching in the United States and throughout the world.

according to Kathy Toogood in her paper “Strengthening Coaching: An Exploration of the Mindset of Executive Coaches Using Strengths-Based Coaching” (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, Special Issue No. 6, June 2012, pp. 72-87), the movement towards strengths-based coaching is growing. Read on to find out the why and how of a strengths-based approach to coaching clients. COACHING …

This extensive annotated bibliography draws on scholarly papers from the behavioural science literature as presented in PsycINFO, Business Source Premier and Dissertation Abstracts International,

Many decisions made during an individual's typical day are made in a distracted state. This process works well until some external event injects itself into the process.

Nearly a century ago, Edward Thorndike (1917) published his findings of a connection between work and satisfaction in the Journal of Applied Psychology. The precursor to Thorndike’s research on job satisfaction was his studies of animal behavior, which led to the formulation of his Law of Effect (1911). The Law of Effect states: 1) responses that are followed by satisfaction …