The success of agile software development has drawn attention to coaching as an alternative management style. In this paper, we argue that coaching, with its focus on trustful relationships, empathetic communication, mental models, and experiential learning, is suitable to facilitate the sustainable application of agile software development.

There are two potential contaminants of the psychiatric examination in a medicolegal context. One is the malingering of forensically significant mental illness; the second is attorneys’ coaching of litigants in an attempt to influence the litigants’ behavior and demeanor in the examination and thus to affect the outcome. Coaching represents both a forensic and an ethics problem, but the exact n...

BACKGROUND Chronic work-related stress is quite prevalent in the working population and is in some cases accompanied by long-term sick leave. These stress complaints highly impact employees and are costly due to lost productivity and medical expenses. A new treatment platform with light therapy plus Pulsed Electro Magnetic Fields (PEMF) in combination with coaching was used to assess whether mo...

Coaching is the art and science of facilitating self-directed change. It requires helping a person think through a situation with greater depth and clarity than they could do on their own and assist them in discovering their own solutions. In previous columns we’ve presented multiple tools and techniques for achieving this objective. Employing these techniques in a real-time coaching encounter,...

BACKGROUND Tobacco abuse is a well-recognized scourge on health and healthcare costs. Attempts to facilitate tobacco cessation are rarely better than marginally effective. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To describe an observational trial of an existing and highly successful tobacco cessation program featuring health coaching as the primary intervention. Core components of program design and data are prese...

BACKGROUND Self-management is recognized as the cornerstone of overall diabetes management. Web-based self-management programs have the potential of supporting type 2 diabetes patients with managing their diabetes and reducing the workload for the care provider, where the addition of online coaching could improve patient motivation and reduce program attrition. This study aims to test the hypot...

PURPOSE This study aimed to develop a systematic career-coaching program (SCCP) that can be used by medical teaching schools to address a growing need for career-coaching. The program objectives were to help students (1) develop a comprehensive self-understanding of their aptitudes, interests, and personality traits; (2) explore possible career choices and decide on a career path; and (3) devel...