Comparing the Effectiveness of Individual Coaching, Self-Coaching, and Group Training: How Leadership Makes the Difference

Comparing the Effectiveness of Individual Coaching, Self-Coaching, and Group Training: How Leadership Makes the Difference

Few empirical studies have used a randomized controlled design to evaluate the impact of coaching, and there are even fewer that have compared coaching with other interventions. In the current field study, we investigated the relative effectiveness of coaching as an intervention to reduce procrastination. In a randomized controlled study, participants (N = 84) were assigned to an individual coa...

Coaching as a leadership style.

Robert F. Hicks is a licenced psychologist holding an appointment as Clinical Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas, Dallas (TX, USA). This book arose from his experience over three decades of teaching leadership and coaching skills to doctors and senior executives in health systems. The basic premise of this guide is that leadership an...

INTO LEADERSHIP Literature review : coaching effectiveness – a summary

Assessing coaching moral competences: Development and initial validation of the Coaching Fairplay Behaviors Inventory

The purpose of the present investigation was to develop and initial validation of a measure for assessing the athletes perceptions of coaches’ behaviors that promote fairplay behaviors. A three-step procedure was undertaken to develop the questionnaire. In the initial step, the literature review provided theoretical and empirical perspectives on how youth sport coaches can influence athletes’ f...

Leadership Principles in Coaching Basketball

This study examined the use of leadership principles in coaching basketball. Specifically, this study examined the use of seven principles used to “lead down” proposed by John C. Maxwell in The 360 Degree Leader. Literature surrounding various aspects of coaching basketball such as Albert Bandura’s theories on self-efficacy, motivation, and leadership are discussed and reviewed. In the study, a...