Ep 26 | Who does coaching work best for?

The Coaching Academic | theory to practice

In this episode, I discuss a study that explores whether coachee personality influences the effectiveness of coaching. In this episode I summarise the key findings which includes that coachee’s high in Openness, low in core self-evaluations and high in avoid goal orientation benefit the most from coaching and translate how you can utilise the findings from this study into practice. The study I am discussing in this episode is Jones, R. J., Woods, S. A., & Zhou, Y. (2019). The Effects of Coachee Personality and Goal Orientation on Performance Improvement Following Coaching: A Controlled Field Experiment. Applied Psychology: An International Review, doi: 1111/apps.12218. You can access the original article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/apps.12218 If you enjoy the show then don't forget to subscribe and please leave a rating. Also tell your friends - the best publicity is word of mouth. You can tell the world you have listened to The Coaching Academic podcast via Twitter here: http://www.rebeccajjones.co.uk/coaching_academic/share