Comments on: Listen to an Uncommon Conversation from October 10th, 2008 – Reporting from the International Coaching Research Forum: 100 Great Ideas

By: Daniel Kuzmycz

Daniel Kuzmycz — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:40:16 +0000

Greetings Mary Wayne & others in the Foundation,

It was a tremendous honor to take part in this conversation on coaching research. Thank you for organizing this forum and SIG call!
To hear of the energy and enthusiasm from such a wide variety of practitioners, researchers and coaches towards progressing coaching related research is very welcoming.

The foundation is a tremendous resource. I’m sure that once the word gets out that it also provides funding to support coaching related research, many graduate students like myself will be knocking on the door. The more research it is able to get involved with, the more practitioners will notice.

I wanted to provide two resources – both are annotated bibliographies of coaching related research. Many of you may already know about them. I noticed that one of ICRF’s research proposals (#96), was about creating a published bibliography, and I thought these citations may be of use – they both have been tremendous resources for me!

Douglas, C. A., & Morley, W H. (2000). Executive coaching: An annotated bibliography. Greensboro, NC: Center for Creative
Leadership.

Grant, A.M. (2007) Workplace, Executive and Life Coaching: An Annotated Bibliography from the Behavioural Science Literature.

My warmest regards,

Daniel Kuzmycz
Alliant International University

By: Mary Wayne Bush

Mary Wayne Bush — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:45:01 +0000

Welcome to those who were on the ICF Research SIG Call today. It was great to get to share about the Harvard Coaching Conference, as well as the International Coaching Research Forum (ICRF), both held the last week of September. The question that came up about the ICRF is how we will get practitioners informed of (and involved in) the 100 Coaching Research Studies that were identified. To see the list of 100 research study proposals that were developed at the ICRF, go to our link at http://www.CoachingResearchForum.org and let us know what YOU think would be a good follow on from this historic event!

By: Mary Wayne Bush

Mary Wayne Bush — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 03:46:52 +0000

Hi – yes, Grace, Bob Lee is also a keynoter at the upcoming SIOP Leading Edge conference. I’m glad to hear of your interest in the SIOP conference, and I’ll let you know of anything that I think may interest you that is on the agenda. What is important for the “Bigger Picture” of coaching-related research is that this group is noted for researching organizational and leadership development issues, and it is a real milestone for our field that the are offering a conference on coaching. There is a lot of “corporate” or “organizational” overlap with our 100 Research Ideas and psychology (given that some of our International Coaching Research Forum participants are also psychologists!) so I think this will be wonderful opportunity for collaboration – perhaps on some of the 100 ideas!

By: S. Grace Russell, EMBA

S. Grace Russell, EMBA — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:22:21 +0000

Hello Mary Wayne.

Very interesting about adaptation of the Orlinsky study model. I will look forward to finding out more.

I reviewed the SIOP Leading Edge conference agenda. I would love to hear about any Executive ‘quality of life’ info or contacts you may pick up there. You may recall, I’m interested primarily in coaching insights for helping unfulfilled/disenchanted mid-life execs who’ve recognized that climbing the corporate ladder can ultimately leave a lot to be desired.

By the way, I see that Bob Lee (of ICRF) will also be there, as closing keynote.

By: Mary Wayne Bush

Mary Wayne Bush — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:34:09 +0000

Hi, Suzanne – thanks for your post – and what a good thought!

There are many similarities between psychotherapy and coaching that could be leveraged in researching both fields! And our Foundation is currently supporting an adaptation of David Orlinky’s famous longitudinal study on psychotherapists’ development so that it can be used with coaches. (Stay tuned – you’ll have a chance to be a “research subject” when the study launches online in 2009! You’ll hear about it here on The Coaching Commons!)

Next week, I’ll be at APA Division 14′s conference on Executive Coaching for Effective Performance: Leading Edge Practice and Research in Cincinnati OH. (For information on this, go to http://www.siop.org and click on “Meetings”). Division 14 is the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and this is their first meeting devoted to Executive Coaching. I’m pleased to be attending, and to share that one of the Foundation of Coaching Research Advisory Board members, Dr. David Peterson, will be a keynote speaker.

So there is lots of opportunity for us to build collaboration with our APA colleagues – many of whom are already coaches, and doing research in the field!

If you have any specific suggestions of how we can facilitate this collaboration, please let me know!

By: Suzanne Carter, Ph.D.

Suzanne Carter, Ph.D. — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:36:22 +0000

Many thanks for driving this conversation. It looks like there’s a lot of opportunity and interest at the qualityoflife101.com site.

Empirically supporting coaching efficacy and/or effectiveness is a tough nut to crack – it reminds me of the challenges with psychotherapy research. I wonder if some of the APA’s work in the psychotherapeutic domain could be leveraged to benefit the cause (e.g., APA task force on promotion and dissemination of psychological procedures, APA task force on evidence-based practice)