Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Conclusion

In its broadest sense, this chapter has sought to deepen our theoretical understanding of the human relationship formed within a coaching engagement. Further, it highlights the critical importance of the inherent intimacy and complexity of this relationship and its impact on coaching clients’ ability to achieve positive and efficacious outcomes. In support of this intention, the chapter has offered a set of theoretical lenses that can be utilized by practitioners to explore the critical core elements that surface both from within the coach and from within the client during the coaching process, and how these elements influence the outcomes of coaching.

By deepening our understanding of broad human predispositions to bias using an ongoing, ...