Purpose – This article opens up for debate a new perspective on professional quality in externally supplied coaching … quality issues. Findings – Professional quality characteristically varies with different types of coaching provider. Three … individuals; and the specialised coaching team or “boutique”. Provider size is suggested to be the key quality‐related variable …

Purpose – This paper seeks to provide readers with a better understanding of four theory models that inform coaching … practice, and to reflect on how the theoretical approach that one adopts is likely to shape one's coaching practice. Design … eclectic in the methods that they employ, they tend to center their craft on one of four prevailing coaching models: the …

Purpose – The paper sets out to consider the value of coaching to the sensemaking process. It aims to demonstrate how … coaching enhances sensemaking and seeks to describe coaching as a sensemaking activity. Design/methodology/approach – The … objectives are achieved by exploring the literature of both coaching and sensemaking with the purpose of demonstrating the …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to articulate and elaborate on the practice of “relational” coaching, and to … suggest that there are significant implications for coaching practice, in particular the need for coaches to risk themselves … between the coach and client has been shown to be the main factor in effective coaching outcomes. Originality/value – These …

exploring the unconscious relational dynamics of the coaching relationship and their links to unconscious dynamics in the client … of anxieties within its management structures. A shift in the coaching relationship was brought about through the coach … coaching relationship. The subsequent exploration of the dynamics of the coaching relationship helped the client to understand …

number of contextual dynamics in client organisations and coaching practice that can contribute to the experience of shame … coaching and consulting practice. Originality/value – A relational perspective offers an expansion of coaching theory beyond an …

critical success factor in successful coaching outcomes. However, little theory has as yet been devoted to an analysis of how … relationships are used in executive coaching. Such an analysis requires going from the monadic, individual level of analysis to the … dyadic, relational level. The purpose of this paper is to develop a theory of relating in executive coaching at this dyadic …

of narrative, in practical coaching. The paper also aims to show the benefits of working with literary devices within the … coaching relationship and provide a few practitioner tips. Design/methodology/approach – Using case study methodology and based … coaching conversations forms the empirical basis of the paper. A framework of sub‐headings of different forms of narrative …