The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching

Preface

 

The making of a handbook

In the history of any discipline, there comes a point where some concerned individuals want to put a stake or two in the ground. That point typically arrives when some or all of the following occur:

• Lack of clarity about what the discipline is – its purpose, core characteristics and boundaries – becomes an impediment to practice.

• Practices that struggle to gain legitimacy elsewhere try to use the discipline as a source of legitimacy, further increasing confusion.

• The discipline attracts sufficient academic study and practitioner evidence base to establish a community aimed at creating and sharing evidence-based good practice.

• There appear models, based on credible literature from other disciplines, that ...