Develop yourself, develop others? How coaches and clients benefit from train-the-coach courses

Autor: Simone Kauffeld, Sina Gessnitzer, Stefanie Jordan
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice. 10:125-139
ISSN: 1752-1890
1752-1882
DOI: 10.1080/17521882.2017.1330353
Popis: The majority of the numerous train-the-coach courses in the growing coaching market are not evidence-based and evaluate neither the personal development of coaches during these courses nor their effects on clients’ subsequent coaching success. The aim of our study was to investigate the development of coaches’ career-related variables during a train-the-coach course. Furthermore, we explored the effects of these coach variables on clients’ coaching success. Fifty-seven German university students participated in a five-month train-the-coach course and answered questionnaires regarding career-related variables at three points of time during the course. Afterwards, in groups of two or three, they led group coachings for the vocational orientation of secondary school pupils. The pupils (N = 104) answered questionnaires at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the 10-week coaching process. Results indicated that coaches’ occupational self-efficacy, goal orientation and career adaptability sign...
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