The influence of Character: Does Personality Impact Coaching Success?

By Lorna J. Stewart, Stephen Palmer, Helen Wilkin, M. Kerrin. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 2008

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Using the Five Factor Model of personality and the construct general self efficacy this study explores the relationship between coaching clients’ personality and a self-report measure of the transfer of learning from coaching to the workplace. Positive correlations are found between the application of coaching development and conscientiousness, openness to experience, emotional stability and general self-efficacy. Conscientiousness is also found to be associated with generalisation and maintenance of outcomes. Personality measures may have value as a means for identifying coaching clients who require support in order to make manifest the changes experienced in coaching.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Gil Bozer
2. E. D. Haan
3. Rebecca J. Jones
4. Adam M. Grant
5. Simone Kauffeld
6. Sina Gessnitzer

In Social Psychology

1. Gil Bozer
2. E. D. Haan
3. J. Sarros
4. Rebecca J. Jones
5. Adam M. Grant
6. Simone Kauffeld
7. Sina Gessnitzer

Citations in the corpus

• The role of coachee characteristics in executive coaching for effective sustainability (2013, background): “However, limited evidence exists on the role of coachee personality in coaching success (Stewart et al., 2008).”
• EXECUTIVE COACHING OUTCOME RESEARCH: THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMMON FACTORS SUCH AS RELATIONSHIP, PERSONALITY MATCH, AND SELF-EFFICACY (2013, background): “Within the coaching outcome literature, Stewart et al. (2008) showed that general selfefficacy predicts coaching outcome, and Evers et al. (2006) demonstrated that small improvements in self-efficacy can occur as a result of coaching.”