CHAPTER 12
WHY IT WORKS
What use is it to know why and how coaching works? You may not care. Some have no idea what happens under the bonnet of their car, they just want to turn it on and go. You may feel the same about coaching. On the other hand you may be curious, for several reasons: innate curiosity about most things, or a desire to know in order to do it better or faster, or to know how to fix it when it goes wrong. If you’re in the ‘just turn it on and go’ camp, then you might like to skip this chapter.
Still here? Great!
This chapter considers:
- 1simple practical reasons why coaching works;
- 2reasons from scientific research;
- 3the research basis of Big Five coaching; and
- 4reasons from scientific research: allied fields.
1. Simple practical ...
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