Performance Management: Putting Research into Action

A Framework for Coaching and Performance Management

There is a wide variety of definitions, models, and approaches to coaching, as represented in the collections edited by Kilburg and Diedrich (2007), Palmer and Whybrow (2007), and Stober and Grant (2006), just as a sample. This chapter presents a seven-part framework of important aspects of coaching and performance management, suitable for comparing and incorporating many diverse approaches, which will be used to examine how organizations at each stage of the organizational continuum can optimize their coaching efforts.

At the center of this framework is the Development Pipeline (Hicks & Peterson, 1999; Peterson, 2006), a model of the five necessary and sufficient conditions for any type ...