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The SAGE Handbook of Coaching presents a comprehensive, global view of the discipline, identifying the current issues and practices, as well as mapping out where the discipline is going. The Handbook is organized into six thematic sections: Part One: Positioning Coaching as a Discipline Part Two: Coaching as a Process Part Three: Common Issues in Coaching Part Four: Coaching in Contexts Part Five: Researching Coaching Part Six: Development of Coaches It provides the perfect reference point for graduate students, scholars, educators and researchers wishing to familiarize themselves with current research and debate in the academic and influential practitioners' literature on coaching.
Working with Goals in Coaching
Working with Goals in Coaching
Goals and goal constructs have been a central feature of the coaching literature for almost all its scholarly history. Indeed, evidence of a focus on goals can be detected as far back as Parkes (1955), when goal-setting was recommended as an essential practice for executive development. Since that time numerous scholars have made goals a primary focus of theoretical (e.g. Grant, 2012), methodological (e.g. Spence, 2007) and empirical work (Burke & Linley, 2007; Grant, 2014; O'Connor & Cavanagh, 2012; Spence & Grant, 2007). Whilst goals have generally been considered a fundamental part of behavioural change processes, they tend to have been viewed in two distinct ways.
The first is the linear view, which ...
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