MANY FACTORS INFLUENCE OUR COACHING PERCEPTIONS
A large-scale study of coaching behaviours has revealed significant variations in perceived behaviour according to differences in age, gender, nationality, whether people identify as managers, consultants or coaches, or as a client of coaching By Erik de Haan The study was carried out by Ashridge Business School among 537 coaches, 196 consultants and 559 manager-coaches from 54 countries, and 221 of these coaches’ clients. It used the latest version of its Coaching Behaviours Questionnaire (CBQ), which has 72 items, mapping three ‘push’, coach-centred (directive) sets of behaviours – Prescribing, Informing and Confronting – and three ‘pull’, client-centred (non-directive) sets […]