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 …

The 2011 Sherpa Coaching Survey has a special emphasis on general topics surrounding leadership development. This is the longest running, most method-sound research of its kind.

Whether you’re an executive coach or not, Rosanne Scriffingnano’s paper “Coaching within organisations: examining the influence of goal orientation on leaders’ professional development” (Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2011, 20-31) provides some essential considerations about the impact of clients’ goal orientation on their development. Given the prevalence of the goal setting …