. From the viewpoint of human resource management, emphasis on coaching and developing imagination enables businesses to stay …

Psychoanalysis has nothing to say about firms or management as such; inversely, psychoanalytic coaching can aid … psychoanalytic framework, psychoanalytic coaching must meet certain criteria in order to justify a psychoanalytic filiation: amongst … risks involved for all parties concerned (the manager, the firm and the analyst), psychoanalytic coaching offers a way of …

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 …

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 …

power dynamics, which are at the heart of coaching in organisations. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is informed by … a social constructionist view of coaching. Findings – The conceptualisation of the coaching process as a series of … storyselling activities highlights the power of storytelling to facilitate management development through coaching on the one hand …

characteristics gives a more detailed view of storyselling that, necessarily, works with storytelling as tools used in coaching for … relationship to leadership development coaching, and to demonstrate how the movement of a story told and sold create leadership … storytelling theory as it applies to the practice of coaching for leadership development. Originality/value – The paper …