A critical review of executive coaching research: a decade of progress and what's to come

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Challenges for the Theory and Practice of Business Coaching

“…Of these 111 papers 15 were published prior to 2000, with the remaining 96 published since 2004, supporting claims made about an upward trajectory in this area by Ely et al (2010). Thirty five articles were published in 2012 to 2015 further demonstrating that the field of coaching research is developing and that considerably more evidence is now available for consideration than previous narrative reviews such as those provided by Passmore and Fillery-Travis (2011).…”

“…While a variety of scales and measures were used to evaluate the coaching almost all relied upon coachees' and/or coaches' selfreported subjective evaluations of effectiveness. The limitations of using only subjective participant evaluations to assess the success of coaching have been discussed in detail elsewhere (Ely et al, 2010;Passmore & Fillery-Travis, 2011;Passmore & Gibbes, 2007) and include issues such as rating the coach instead of the effectiveness of the coaching process and everything it involves, participants that are going through the coaching process at the time they evaluate it are more likely to rate different aspects more highly compared to those that have time to reflect. Thus, it is not possible from this set of studies to make very strong claims about the effectiveness of coaching in general or its effectiveness compared to other training opportunities.…”

“…This approach follows the suggestions made by Passmore and Fillery-Travis (2011) that there is a link between different methodological styles and the types of questions addressed. Within each category each study was coded according to the nature of the sample, the method used and major findings.…”

Using emotional intelligence in coaching high-performance athletes: a randomised controlled trial

“…However, the approach chosen here is preferable to using a parametric test incorrectly. Second, the sample size is small compared to, for example, the one hundred plus participants that has been proposed as a standard elsewhere (Passmore & Fillery-Travis, 2011). However, the sample size has sufficient statistical power to detect a large effect which is, after all, the size of effect of most practical value (Friston, 2012).…”

The Success Connection: The Relationship Between Personal Coaching and Academic Success

“…This idea is based on the results of selfregulated learning (Glen, 2010). Passmore & Fillery-Travis (2011) tried to evaluate the effectiveness of this coaching. De Meuse, Dai & Lee (2009) found that coaching led to improvement of skills and task performance.…”