Det livslånga lärandet behövs i alla kontexter, vilket även omfattar kontexten inom en anställning. Karriärvägledning för det livslånga lärandet som sker på arbetsplatser kallas ofta medarbetarsamtal eller vidareutvecklingssamtal. I detta väcks en nyfikenhet för hur chefer bedriver karriärvägledning samt hur chefer ser på funktionen av samtalet med sina medarbetare. Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka vilken funktion samtalet utgör i en karriärvägledande kontext, för att förstå hur karriärvägledning bedrivs inom ett urval av större organisationer i Sverige. Våra tre frågeställningar är: Vad innebär karriärvägledning utifrån mellanchefers upplevelser? Hur använder sig mellanchefer av samtalet i karriärvägledning inom ett urval av större organisationer i Sverige? Vilka samtalskompetenser används av mellanchefer i karriärvägledande samtal? För att besvara dessa frågor har en kvalitativ metod använts där semistrukturerade intervjuer har genomförts, med sju verksamma mellanchefer inom stora organisationer i Sverige. För att analysera och förstå vårt resultat har olika teoretiska utgångspunkter applicerats som verktyg. Dessa är: Patton och McMahons The Therapeutic System, Bourdieus kapital och fält, Egans The Skilled Helper och Coaching. Studiens resultat visar en spänning i mellanchefers arbete med karriärvägledning, eftersom de dels måste förhålla sig till medarbetarnas intresse, dels organisationens intresse. Det framgår även i resultatet att den neutralitet som behövs för karriärvägledning är svår att upprätthålla för mellanchefer, på grund av deras styrande yrkesroll. Hur mellanchefer bedriver karriärvägledande samtal är synonymt med delar av karriärvägledarprofessionen, exempelvis i vilka samtalskompetenser som används. Detta innebär däremot inte att karriärvägledningen är likställd.

Industry has long been concerned about the supervisor-worker relationship and Green and Mitchell (1979) proposed a model of how supervisors process and respond to information regarding the cause for a subordinate's work failure. The model specifies a two-step process in which the supervisor first attributes a cause to the subordinate's behavior and then uses the causal attribution to aid in the selection of an appropriate disciplinary action. In athletics the coach is the leader and, therefore, the same process that exists for leaders in organizational and industrial settings may also apply to the athletic settings. This research examined whether the implementation of personal policy for a rule infraction would be influenced by the cause for the infraction, the severity of the penalty, and the importance of the offender to the group success. The study was performed within the setting of intercollegiate athletics. One hundred and fifty-nine male and female coaches were divided into two groups based on the personal characteristic of orientation toward winning (high vs. low). Each coach responded to a scenario that described a curfew violation committed by a star or a substitute player. The cause for the infraction was either internal or external and the policy was either mild or severe. Duncan's New Multiple Range Test revealed that: (a) coaches focused significantly (p < .05) more on the player and showed a significantly (p < .05) greater intensity toward the player when the cause for the curfew violation was internal rather than external; (b) orientation toward winning interacted with status of the player in determining whether to reduce penalty; and (c) the severity of personal policy was not significant. The results extend the Green and Mitchell (1979) attributional model of leadership and confirm the importance of personal characteristics in control decisions. / Ed. D.

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the systems, structures, and behaviors district leaders employ and enact to assist elementary school principals' relationship with their school instructional coach. Through the synthesis of current research, the conceptual framework was developed with a focus on district leadership behaviors and instructional coaching programs. The conceptual framework consisted of professional capital theory, instructional coaching model, and principal leadership skills. This study assessed the perceptions of six instructional coaches, six elementary principals, and three district leaders from Comet ISD regarding the specific behaviors district leaders use to support the relationship between the school principal and instructional coach. The three-part data collection process included document analysis, face-to-face interviews, and focus group interviews to support the triangulation of data. Through the a priori coding process, four themes emerged that identified key district structures and leadership behaviors needed to support the relationship between the school principal and instructional coach: program clarity, principal leadership skills, professional learning opportunities, and culture of continuous learning. This study revealed a specific need to understand program implementation, accountability, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the instructional coaching program in a fast-growth district.

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / The key objective of this mixed method research study was to establish the influence of coaching on the work engagement and burnout levels of a corporate leadership group. Previous literature reviews support the importance and impact of work engagement and burnout on business performance, leadership success and continuity. Leaders are under increased pressure to grow business and deal with the diverse business challenges. A highly-engaged leadership team with low levels of burnout thus becomes critical to sustained and successful business. Work engagement and burnout levels in leadership need to be proactively managed and supported in order to remain competitive in business. The literature review of this study furthermore positions coaching, whether group or individual, as impactful leadership and change interventions. To eliminate the possibility of bias and add to the credibility of the study, triangulation was included in the quasi-experimental study. The study included an analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data on the impact of coaching on work engagement and burnout levels. Quantitative data was collected at three intervals over the period of a year, using a work engagement and burnout measurement instrument in the form of a self-administered questionnaire. Qualitative data was collected through in-depth individual interviews with all participants and coaches, which occurred after all interventions and measurements were completed. This study provides quantitative and qualitative supported insights into the influence of coaching on the work engagement and burnout levels of an executive leadership team in a specific service area of a corporate organisation. Insights were obtained about the variance of work engagement and burnout levels at a group level, after voluntary group and individual coaching interventions. These variances were compared to those of the work engagement and burnout levels of the control group, who received no coaching interventions. The study established that coaching has a statistically significant positive impact on the burnout levels of both the experimental and control groups, due to the ‘carry-over’ effect of the measurement and communication process. This positive impact on burnout can therefore not be solely ascribed to the coaching intervention. The study also established that coaching has a positive impact on leadership work engagement, but which is not statistically significant. Improvements to the measurement and coaching processes are required in order for the coaching support programme to become a sustainable and even more effective part of leadership support in the organisation. The study confirmed previous research on the existence of burnout and engagement challenges in leaders. It also confirmed research that positions coaching as an effective leadership support mechanism. The recommendations are that work engagement and burnout be measured continuously in the organisation as part of its business management cycle to ensure awareness, proactive support and management of work engagement and burnout in leaders. Coaching is recommended as an effective mechanism to assist leaders with their engagement and burnout challenges. Due to the study’s limited scope, recommendations for future research, such as comparative studies, extension studies with larger sub-samples, longitudinal studies and on-going practice in the field have been made.

This diploma thesis deals with the topic of coaching in organizations, respectively the topic of barriers to coaching in organizations that prevent its effectiveness. Firstly, the attention is paid to the definition of coaching, its basic principles, forms and specifics to other developmental methods. Further described is the use of coaching in organizations, the reasons for its implementation, its benefits and most of all the barriers that may occur. Text is based on the specialized literature and the data from qualitative research. The focus is on the perspectives of the parties that participate in the coaching process - guarantors of coaching, coaches and coachees and how these actors perceive the potential barriers to coaching, not only during the coaching process, but even before its initiation and after its completion. Keywords: coaching, barriers to effectiveness, employee`s development, coaching process, coach, coachee

Thesis focuses the topic of individual change and discusses possibilities of its support in terms of psychological (self)coaching. The theoretical part summarizes key psychological traits, which may affect the success of change implementation, than provides insight into the various phases, stages and processes of both individual and organizational change. Attention is then moved to the issue of individual change goals setting and there are shown several models of goals formulation. Next chapter introduces psychological coaching as a suitable approach to the facilitation of individual change and describes specific techniques and strategies that support individuals achieving goals. Particular attention is also paid to the strategy of small steps or quick wins, also known as Kaizen, as well as the other mentioned techniques and tools that can be used in (self)coachning and selfmanagement. The research verifies the effect of Kaizen strategy on individual goals achievement. Results confirm the positive impact of Kaizen on individual success in goal achieving, but also the degrese of precieved satisfaction derived from working on goals.

ON- COURT COACHING IN TENIS - COACHING Objectives: The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the topic of "on-court coaching", to find out the up-to-date experience of the tennis players and coaches, their opinion on the ideal coach and their attitude towards introduction of the on-court coaching into the tennis tournaments. Methods: We have used qualitative inquiry methods in our work. To obtain qualitative data, we have created two structured and controlled interviews. Two groups of subjects were used (players and coaches) to get two sets of results. We have deliberately chosen the subjects and then expanded results using "the snowball" mechanism. For evaluation, we assigned codes to certain sets of texts, classified them and commented on them. Some of the resulting answers were converted into relative frequency. We have analyzed acquired data to interpret the results question by question. First, we evaluated data from the "coach" group of respondents, then from the "players" group. Discussion is often part of the result interpretation. We have also frequently compared the result between the two target groups. Results: As we have discovered, the players and coaches used in this study, were well informed and experienced in this topic. This leads us to believe, that the obtained data...

La diversité de l'offre disponible sous le mot « coaching » est source de confusion pour les clients, les commanditaires et les coachs eux-mêmes. Dans une visée de didactique professionnelle, à partir d'une démarche de recherche socio clinique compréhensive auprès de six cas de coachs, il est montré que le référentiel est davantage un indicateur qu'un organisateur du dit « coaching ». L'absence de conceptualisation du coaching a pour effet l'impossibilité d'un consensus autour d'une définition, d'un référentiel, d'un mode de transmission et de reconnaissance. A partir de quatre organisateurs des métiers de l'humain que sont le rapport au savoir, le rapport aux normes, le rapport aux valeurs et le rapport à l'image du Soi professionnel, les résultats relatifs à l'activité des cas de coachs et à leurs dynamiques identitaires montrent que l'usage du référentiel est un indicateur de leur posture : guidage ou accompagnement. Puisque le mot « coaching » ne dit rien de la posture de celui qui s'en prévaut, la dénomination désignant l'activité d'accompagnement professionnel dans le champ des ressources humaines et ceux qui la pratiquent devra évoluer. Former ces accompagnateurs aux usages contraires du référentiel permettra que s'élaborent le genre du métier, et le style de ces accompagnateurs. / Market supply over the word « coaching » is confusing for customers and partners, and for coaches themselves. With occupational didactics as a line of sight, and a socio-clinical comprehensive approach to study the case of six coaches, this research comes to the conclusion that the reference table appears to be more an indicator than an organizer of what is called « coaching ». Because coaching has not yet been conceptualized, there is no consensus on its definition, nor on a reference table, or on ways of teaching it and it lacks recognition. Using four organizers of human businesses, which are the relationships to knowledge, to norms and standards, to values, and to one's professional self, it is possible to analyse the coaches' activities and identity dynamics. The obtained results show that the use of a reference table is an indicator of the position they adopt: either in a guidance or accompanying position. Since the word « coaching » says nothing about the position adopted by the ones who refer to themselves as coaches, the denomination referring to the professional -accompanying activity in the field of human resources, and to those who undertake it, will have to evolve. Training these accompanying professionals to the contrary usages of the reference table will allow the elaboration of the profession type and the style of these accompanying professionals.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:28:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DEBORA APARECIDA DA COSTA FERREIRA.pdf: 716053 bytes, checksum: 543eeadcba9fb5262294d146c31e2106 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-10 / Coaching is a topic that has been frequently underlined on personal and professional development context, theme deeply approached by individuals from different areas and institutions that offer training on the subject, though, scientifically, it has been little explored empirically up to now. People from several educational background are using coaching as a working tool. The research aims at analyzing the performance of professionals who have their main focus on coaching work. Given the scarcity of studies assessing the activities of coaches, practices, methods and results achieved, a semi-structured interview with five open questions about the theme was designed and applied to six participants who work as coaches in consulting. Their answers were examined qualitatively by content analysis, looking for similarities and differences between the speeches. The results showed that each employee performs in accordance with his/her background, knowledge and experience, and such conceptions and practices are quite different. It is expected that the results of this study may help those interested in coaching about processes and techniques, costs of meetings, the coaching status in a national context, and contribute to scientific research on the topic. / O coaching tem recebido bastante destaque no contexto de desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional, tema amplamente abordado por sujeitos de diferentes ?reas e institui??es que oferecem forma??o sobre a tem?tica, ainda que, cientificamente, o mesmo venha sendo pouco explorado at? a atualidade. Interessados de diversos n?veis educacionais est?o utilizando o coaching como ferramenta de trabalho. A pesquisa objetiva analisar a atua??o de profissionais que t?m no coaching seu principal foco laboral. Dada a escassez de estudos que avaliem as atividades dos coaches, suas pr?ticas, m?todos utilizados e resultados atingidos, uma entrevista semi-estruturada com cinco quest?es abertas sobre a tem?tica foi elaborada e aplicada em seis participantes que atuam em consultorias, como coaches. Suas respostas foram analisadas qualitativamente, atrav?s da an?lise de conte?do, buscando as semelhan?as e diferen?as entre os discursos. Os resultados apontaram que cada profissional atua de acordo com a sua forma??o, conhecimento e experi?ncia, sendo bastante diferentes as concep??es e pr?ticas. Espera-se que os resultados do presente estudo possam auxiliar os interessados em coaching sobre os processos e t?cnicas utilizadas, custos das reuni?es, o status do coaching a n?vel nacional, al?m de contribuir para a investiga??o cient?fica sobre o tema.

<p>Bakgrunden till uppsatsen är att jag vill titta närmare på hur man bygger ett framgångsrikt ishockeylag, där man får ut det mesta av varje individ för att på så vis bilda en svårslagen enhet samt hur en coach kan arbeta för att skapa ett klimat som uppmuntrar till utveckling, både på isen och vid sidan om.</p><p>Syftet med uppsatsen är att utforska den vetenskapliga kunskap som finns om hur ett lag och dess individer kan coachas samt ta reda på hur elitseriecoacher arbetar för att coacha laget och individen och hur elitseriespelare vill att coachen ska agera.</p><p>Följande frågeställningar ligger till grund för mitt arbete:</p><ul><li>Hur arbetar elitseriecoacher i ishockey med att coacha individen och laget?</li><li>Hur vill elitseriespelare att en coach ska coacha individen och laget?</li></ul><p>Undersökningen består av kvalitativa intervjuer med ett urval av Elitseriens coacher. För att jag också ska få en bild av hur en elitseriespelare upplever att coacherna agerar samt hur de vill att de ska agera, så kommer också intervjuer med ett urval av elitserielagens lagkaptener att genomföras.</p><p>Undersökningens resultat visar att mycket av den kunskap som finns i den vetenskapliga forskningen om coaching också återfinns i intervjupersonernas svar. Enligt intervjupersonerna ser den moderna ishockeycoachen väldigt annorlunda ut, jämfört med den traditionella. Framförallt betonades detta av spelarna, samtidigt som coacherna genom sina svar också visade prov på att det finns en stor medvetenhet om hur coaching kan bedrivas, både när det gäller laget som helhet och den individuella spelaren. Den vetenskapliga kunskapen tycks praktiseras även ute i verkligheten, även om den ibland kan ta sig olika former eller anpassas till de regler och normer som gäller inom ishockeyns värld. Jag upplever att de coacher som finns med i undersökningen arbetar på ett sätt som stämmer väl överens med hur spelarna i undersökningen vill att coachen ska agera. Det var också tydligt att de uppskattade den nya moderna coachingen mer än den gamla stilen.</p> / <p>The background to this essay is that I want to have a closer look at how a coach can get the most out of every individual in order to form a successful ice hockey team as well as how a coach can work to create a climate that encourages progress, both on and off the ice.</p><p>The purpose of the essay is to explore the scientific knowledge that exists about coaching a team and its individuals as well as finding out how Elite League coaches work with coaching the team and the individual and how Elite League players would like the coach to act.</p><p>The study is based on these questions:</p><ul><li>How do Elite League coaches work with coaching the individual and the team?</li><li>How would Elite League players like their coach to work with coaching the individual and the team?</li></ul><p>The study consists of qualitative interviews with at sample of Elite League coaches. To get an idea of how Elite League players experience their coaches’ behavior and how the players would like the coaches to act, qualitative interviews will also be conducted with a sample of the Elite League teams’ players. These players are the player captains of their respective teams.</p><p>The result of the study shows that a lot of the knowledge prevalent in scientific research are also figuring in the responses I got through my interviews. The respondents made it clear that the modern ice hockey coach is very different from the traditional ice hockey coach. This point was stressed the most by the players, while the coaches showed through their responses that the awareness of how coaching can be practiced is high, both regarding the team as a whole and the individual player. The scientific knowledge is seemingly also practiced in reality, although it may take a variety of different forms or be adapted to the rules and norms in the world of ice hockey. My apprehension was that the coaches of the study to high degree coached in a way that consisted with how the players of the study wanted their coach to act. It was also clear that the players appreciated the new modern style of coaching more than the traditional style.</p><p> </p><p> </p>