Coaching Understood —— A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Coaching Process

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ISBN: 9780857028266 出版年：2012 页码：192 Cox, Elaine SAGE Publications Ltd

INTRODUCTION Elaine Cox is a principal lecturer and director of Masters and Doctoral level coaching and mentoring programmes in the Business School at Oxford Brookes University (p. viii). Cox defines coaching as “a facilitated, dialogic, reflective learning process, and its popularity reflects a need arising in society driven by complex situations and the individual nature of problems affecting people” (p. 1). In terms of dialogue, Cox sees coaching not as “an everyday two-way communication”, but as involving “an element of soliloquy in the response from the client” (p. 157) – evidenced, for example, when “coaches encourage clients to tell their stories without counter-narrative interruption” (p. 41). For Cox, “the client has total ownership of the content and agenda” in a coaching alliance (p. 158). Taking a pragmatic approach to coaching, the theories and arguments that Cox draws upon in the book are based on her “professional background and experience”, but “[m]ost, if not all of them have never been examined empirically in a coaching context” (p. 160):