Coaching Expertise: Science or Skills?

Tacit Knowledge in Expert Coaching: Science or Art?

Effective coaching is a mixture of pedagogy and principles of sciences, e.g., motor skill acquisition, sociology, and physiology, often referred to as the science of coaching. Instinctive or intuitive coaching has often been incorrectly viewed as the art of coaching. More important should be how coaches develop knowledge, how they access that knowledge at the appropriate times and how this affe...

Adaptive support for coaching meta-cognitive skills

We describe a computational framework designed to provide adaptive support to learning from examples by coaching the meta-cognitive skill known as self-explanation generating explanations to oneself to clarify an example solution. The framework includes an interface to scaffold self-explanation, a probabilistic student model and a coaching component. The probabilistic student model allows the c...

Coaching Science Inquiry: Validating a Strengths- Based Approach to Coaching

Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the impact of a long-term (13-week, spaced learning) with a short-term (two-day, block intensive) coaching skills training programme on participants’ coaching skills and emotional intelligence. Design/methodology/approach – In the study 23 participants completed a 13-week coaching skills training course which consisted of weekly 2.5-hour worksho...

Using life coaching techniques to enhance leadership skills in nursing.

This article describes a recent initiative, which used life-coaching to develop strong leadership skills and empower individual team members and the team as a whole. A three-stage process was used to enable a team of nurses in a GP practice to improve working relationships, leadership skills and stress management.