I share the findings from my recently published, comprehensive, meta-analytic review of coaching outcome studies, with some conclusions about what these results (Read more…)
What relevance does coaching have to the current crises on our planet? Erik de Haan argues that, as coaches, we have a (Read more…)
Unsurprisingly, strong and growing interest in the effectiveness of workplace and executive coaching is yielding an increasing and consistent body of significant (Read more…)
Generally regarded as positive, even essential, for coaches, Professor Erik de Haan argues that feedback can also have a dark side… Download (Read more…)
How important are first impressions? Erik de Haan observes that the opening moments of a coaching session can reveal a wealth of (Read more…)
The opening moments of a coaching session offer a treasure trove of impressions and information. I have observed a great many coaching (Read more…)
After some 25 years the qualitative-research body in workplace and executive coaching merits a systematic review. The manifold studies and investigations are (Read more…)
Moderators, tutors and candidates of the final accreditation process of Ashridge/Hult Business School’s supervision postgraduate diploma share their experiences of a new (Read more…)
Context-sensitivity appears to be a key factor in developing the knowledge base of coaching as a change process. As an alternative perspective (Read more…)
Case vignette around ethics in coaching, comparing two different views. The chair of an organisation feels her CEO is not responding to (Read more…)
How useful are psychometric and diagnostic instruments to coaching? In the first in a new series of Opinion Articles, Erik de Haan (Read more…)
It is amazing how much insight The Odyssey, one of the oldest books in Western literature, can give us into something as (Read more…)
At some point in their careers, all coaches come across a tricky moral problem while dealing with a client. Ethics training may (Read more…)
In the last issue, Erik de Haan and Michael Carroll argued that no amount of preparation can ready coaches for some tricky (Read more…)
Of none of our future statements do we positively affirm that the fact is exactly as we state it, but we simply (Read more…)
The purpose of this study is to go to the heart of the consulting and coaching intervention and to explore what is (Read more…)
In this study the phenomenon of reflective-self function is explored in terms of its historical understanding – just as the phenomenon of (Read more…)
This article focuses specifically on one of the central questions in an article by Jenkins, namely whether coaches should use a specific, (Read more…)
In this study the phenomenon of transference (and parallel process) is explored in terms of its historical understanding and possible occurrences in (Read more…)
About the concept of ‘free space’ and allowing free space as a prerequisite for peer consultation and collegiate learning. Download PDF