OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of goal focused telephone coaching by practice nurses in improving glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes in Australia. DESIGN Prospective, cluster randomised controlled trial, with general practices as the unit of randomisation. SETTING General practices in Victoria, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 59 of 69 general practices that agreed to part...

Instructional improvement initiatives in many districts include content-focused coaching as a primary form of job-embedded support for teachers. However, the current coaching literature provides little guidance about the types of activities in which coaches should engage teachers in order to support their development of ambitious instructional practices. Furthermore, when researchers do propose...

Coaching and reflection are established methods for learning from experiences and peer support at work. They support people with different means: While coaching is a rather formal, planned, structured and systematic process, reflection is rather informal, spontaneous and emergent. Despite these differences, coaching and reflection may complement each other. This helps to overcome barriers of th...

The ideas related to user centred systems design are difficult to implement in organisations and usability is given low priority in in-house systems development. This problem is multifaceted and complex and needs to be addressed with a method capable of adapting to situations, people and context. In this paper we outline a new method – usability coaching – that has the capability for dealing wi...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a coaching intervention (Solution-Focused Coaching in pediatric rehabilitation [SFC-Peds]) related to physical activity and diet in males with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. METHODS A pre-post design was employed. Participants had five coaching sessions over 8 weeks. The first session was face-to-face, followed by four virtual sessions. F...

INTRODUCTION Few studies have examined how peer coaching is an effective educational and development technique in contexts outside the classroom. This research focused on peer coaching as a platform to study the process of professional development for physicians. The purpose was to identify perceived benefits coaches received from a coaching encounter and how this relates to their own process o...

In recent research the strength and nature of the relationship between coaches and executives appears as a 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 pu...

This paper outlines the potential significance of behaviourism and its impact on developing effective coaching practice. Its purpose is threefold: firstly, it addresses the issues resonating from the critique of behaviourism, which focuses on its limited understanding and application within the coaching community. This is interesting given the fact that many coaches and coaching manuals use the...

The study investigates the impact of coaching as a modern method and its connections with the organizational culture. The analysis uses the model of four types of organizational cultures, i.e. the transaction-oriented market culture, the family-oriented clan culture, the tradition-bound hierarchical culture and the innovative adhocracy culture. The study shows that the use of coaching in organi...

Coaching technology, wearables and exergames can provide quantitative feedback based on measured activity, but there is little evidence of qualitative feedback to aid technique improvement. To achieve personalised qualitative feedback, we demonstrated a proof-of-concept prototype combining kinesiology and computational intelligence that could help improving tennis swing technique. Three-dimensi...