Elaine Cox

• PhD in Educational Research
• Professor (Associate) at Oxford Brookes University

The coaching process can arouse emotion for both the client and the coach. Coaches then have a choice between minimizing the attention paid to emotional phenomena and working with emotions to achieve results. The objectives of this study were to investigate coaches' personal theories of emotion and in particular their approach to dealing with diffi...

Reflecting on my own PhD studies, and on the supervision of doctoral students, I felt strongly that textbooks painted an 'ideal' picture of how different methodological approaches worked, when they worked smoothly. Real research is more textured than this ideal world. Elaine and I tried to convey more of the lived experience of researchers and they...

"How then do the insights generated in academic research come to be enacted in practice? At a superficial level, it would seem that the process of turning research findings into practice would consist of two elements: dissemination, via various written or oral means; and implementation, which requires adoption of theories or recommendations by rele...

We explore action research as a strategy for developing evidence-based practice in the coaching context. Action Research offers the unique opportunity to generate both experiential and empirical knowledge, while improving and developing the practice, and possibly driving change in the researcher, participants and the context of the research. It fre...

This paper explores the use of coaching in supporting leadership development in a challenging team context. A case study methodology was used to uncover perspectives on the different coaching interventions incorporated in an 11-month round the world sailing race. The coaching was found to be supportive of contextually embedded team leadership devel...

This chapter discusses • A definition of developmental coaching, including a discussion of what constitutes ‘development’ • The principal aims of developmental approaches to coaching together with an illustration of how a developmental model may relate to a more goal-oriented approach • The strengths and challenges of a developmental approach We p...

In this conceptual article, we argue the importance to the coaching profession of a critical understanding of coaching as a social process in order to promote coaching as an enabler for change and facilitate its use in other cultures and challenging contexts. We start with a critical analysis of the origin of coaching, arguing that neoliberal value...

Coaching can play an important part in meeting the challenges of project management (Berg & Karlsen, 2007). However, there remains a lack of research into project managers’ perceptions of coaching and the opportunities for using it. This grounded theory study explores the awareness and application of coaching in project management contexts. Analyse...

In this paper, we explore how the use of a specific mentoring model focusing on the evolution of the relationship between mentor and mentee, may influence the incidence of failure. In our research we employed a case study methodology to examine a regional public service mentoring scheme in the UK where a developmental relationship mentoring model h...

Coach training courses and postgraduate development courses for coaches and coaching psychologists have grown in number very considerably since 2000. However, at present, apart from Laske’s (2006a) work, there are few theoretically based models of coach development. The emphasis on individual development is critically important for coaching and coa...

In this chapter, the author explores how the adult learning theories of andragogy and transformative learning may be used when coaching adult learners.

Leadership Coaching offers a new model of coaching for leadership development. It explains how the brave model extends existing leadership theories, and includes specific coaching processes and sense-making techniques to allow the reader to understand how the model would work in practice. The book begins by asking why it is important for leaders to...

The theory and practice of coaching with singles, couples and parents. Read a sample here: https://www.book2look.com/embed/9781317581642

The Problem The interdisciplinary nature of the theoretical base of coaching creates practical approaches that are strongly influenced by organization-friendly theories, and fields such as counseling, psychotherapy, and philosophy. This eclectic use of theory creates uncertainty and sometimes leads to criticisms of coaching as being atheoretical an...

A comprehensive guide to coaching theories, approaches and settings.

Traditionally there has been a tension between evaluation research and so-called pure research which has resulted in evaluation research seldom being recognized by the UK Research Assessment Exercises. The newly configured Research Excellence Framework (REF) will use similar criteria to judge research, notwithstanding the introduction of ‘impact’ t...

At first glance it may appear that this is just another coaching book, talking about the skills of the coach. However, the skills and techniques of coaching are given a different treatment in this book. Each element of the coaching encounter, each visible building block of interaction if you like, is examined in detail in order to verify and justif...

Read and extract on the publisher's website: https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/coaching-understood/book235839 'This book is a treasure trove of useful information. Cox has collated an amazing collection of ideas drawn from many sources and, unlike pirates, she has carefully acknowledged and referenced all sources of her gems. She has also presented...

‘This book is a milestone in the coaching literature. Elaine Cox provides an excellent text that is scholarly, practical and accessible. She offers clear insights into how coaching works so that coaching is truly understood!' Bob Garvey, Professor of Business Education, York St John Business School ‘Bridging the gap between academic research/theory...

This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications. • The book draws on behavioral science, rather than...

Working with people invariably involves managing emotions. This qualitative study examines a coaching intervention designed to help a group of retail support workers in one mobile communications organisation in the UK to articulate and manage their emotions more effectively in order to improve workplace relations and motivation. The paper discusses...

This paper explores organizational and peer dynamics that impact the potential for productive, trusting peer relationships. An in-depth phenomenological study of five peer coaching dyads was undertaken to examine the establishment and maintenance of peer coaching. Joint interviews were used to promote co-construction of responses. Findings suggeste...

This book combines a practical guide to the goal-focused approach to coaching with a theoretical underpinning in order to substantiate the approach and explain its efficacy across a number of contexts and applications.

Each coaching relationship is reliant upon the unique and special connection between the coach and the coachee. In this paper, which is an adaptation of the talk I gave to the „Coaching meets Research” conference in June 2010, I want to suggest that because of that unique connection we need approaches to the research of coaching that reflect the di...

The function of Simon Jenkins’ article is to act as a catalyst to facilitate reflection on coaching philosophy, especially in relation to eclecticism. In this response I want to comment on how an obsession with individualism, which manifests as valuing personal philosophy, may be in conflict with the service coaches would wish to provide for their...

This paper explores the impact of philosophical thinking on coaching practice. In particular it looks at the epistemology of Socrates (via the writing of Plato), Locke, Hume, Kant, and Dewey. Key concepts from each philosopher are introduced and the ways in which their thinking informs modern coaching practice are explored. In this article, the aut...

The objective of this paper is to explore factors that impact on the selection and matching of coaches with executives in organisations. Selection of coaches is seen to be of utmost importance and a number of different stakeholders are invariably involved in the selection and matching decisions. This conceptual paper uses critical analysis and disc...

Purpose The aim of this study is to investigate personal theories of emotion that coaches have and how these theories are translated into strategies of working with clients' emotions. Design/methodology/approach The approach to the study is phenomenological. A questionnaire method based on specifically designed stem sentences was used in order to...

Objectives: The coaching process can arouse emotion for both the client and the coach. Coaches then have a choice between either minimising the attention paid to emotional phenomena or working with emotions to achieve results. The objectives of this study were to investigate coaches’ personal theories of emotion and in particular their approach to...

Attempts to emulate the serendipity and subsequent rapport that occurs between mentors and mentees in informal mentoring relationships frequently challenges the organizers of many formal mentoring schemes. Using qualitative evidence from a community mentoring project, research is presented that suggests that, through careful mentor selection and ap...

The learning achieved by individuals through their work‐based activity is unique and differentially experienced. It involves a combination of intuitive reasoning, inference and inductive thinking which is normally tacit and not available for analysis. In this paper I present research undertaken with groups of adult students training to work as ment...

This article addresses the issue of forced estrangement between coaching and counselling. The separation between the two fields is explored and the consequences of this for coaching in particular as a newly established profession are discussed. It will be suggested that the source of differences and similarities between various types of 'helping-by...

This paper examines the impact of context on the development of coaching and mentoring practice. Qualitative research was undertaken with mentors working in the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom and this is combined with the author's own reflections on coaching practice, in order to examine the role that contextual knowledge and understanding...

This article is concerned with the assessment and accreditation of learning for volunteers in the United Kingdom. It acknowledges the perceived need for training in the voluntary sector, but presents evidence that many volunteers are not motivated by the need to obtain qualifications. The study outlines the current policy context for the trend towa...

Incl. bibl., abstract. In order to determine the allocation of money for projects in continuing and vocational education, government agencies in the UK are providing more and more opportunities to bid for targeted funding. This article provides an overview of recent changes in funding policy in higher education and examines how such changes have im...

The article draws on theories of volunteer motivation, documentary evidence and interview data in an attempt to understand the impact of biographical and motivational factors on perceived success in mentoring relationships. The results presented are part of a wider exploration of the developmental needs of mentors, considering the voluntary nature...