*Uncommon Conversation for April* Overview of The Foundation of Coaching’s Research Offerings
Wednesday, April 30th 2008
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Eastern Time Zone
Call Topic: Overview of The Foundation of Coaching’s Research Offerings
About the Call: Mary Wayne Bush, Ph. D., Director of the Research Division at The Foundation of Coaching will share an overview of what The Foundation of Coaching offers for researchers. She will outline the different offerings of the Research Division discussing current coaching research grant projects, and the criteria and application process for securing a research grant.
In addition, Dr. Bush will highlight The Foundation of Coaching’s research agenda and describe some ways that participants can learn about or become involved in coaching-related research.
Facilitator: Mary Wayne Bush holds a Master’s degree from Yale University and a doctorate in Organizational Change from Pepperdine University. She has over twenty years experience as a corporate coach and organization development consultant.
In addition, Mary Wayne has taught quality management courses for University of California, Santa Cruz Extension and is a member of the coaching certification faculty at Cal State Long Beach.
Mary Wayne is an active member and presenter at many professional organizations, including the International Coach Federation (ICF), American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Academy of Management (AOM), Professional Coaches and Mentors Association (PCMA), and the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), and the American Society for Quality (ASQ).
To attend this Uncommon conversation and participate live with questions or examples, register below. If you can’t attend live, post your thoughts/questions below and remember to come back to http://www.CoachingCommons.org where the recording will be posted for your listening pleasure.
Cost to attend the call: Free, except your own long-distance telephone charges.
Listen to a recording of the call below:
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Comment by Sandi Lindgren on 19 April 2008:
Hi! I’m very interested in this call, although am not able to attend due to my work day. I would love to be able to listen to the recording and am most interested in what support the Foundation of Coaching might be able to provide for an individual student researcher. Thank you!
Sandi Lindgren
Comment by Elizabeth Crouch on 19 April 2008:
Hi Sandi,
This call will be recorded and posted to The Coaching Commons Virtual Dialog section. You will be able to listen to it at your convenience.
For additional information about The Foundation of Coaching please have a look their unique site: http://www.thefoundationofcoaching.org
As you know, Mary Wayne Bush, Director of Research, is very open to answering research questions — I would email her directly with your questions.
Warmly, Elizabeth
Comment by jsibley on 1 May 2008:
Thanks, Mary Wayne, for a great call.
After we all hung up, I thought about the value of having transcripts of actual coaching sessions. One of the advantages of having access to actual transcripts is that researchers can analyze the same transcript using different methodologies. There is even now a psychotherapy transcript database that Sage publications is launching.
If some psychotherapy clients are willing to have their sessions recorded and transcribed, I believe that at least some coaching clients would agree, as well (a lot of whether a client agrees has to do with how comfortable the therapist / coach is in suggesting it). Perhaps this is an easy way for some coaches to get into research? Get a session transcribed and find a way to describe and/or analyze the session. I think this could be a huge step forward in building our understanding of what happens during coaching interactions (it’s also an eye-opener, at least in therapy, to see what is really said, including mistakes and pauses).
Perhaps, if there isn’t one already, some researchers and/or the foundation could come up with a release for recording sessions for the purpose of research. There might also be a suggested protocol for “sanitizing” the document (particularly for executive coaching) and for having the client approve the transcript (although this could be a slow to impossible process in some corporations).
Any thoughts, anyone?
Jonathan