Beyond Goals: Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring

  • 6h 22m
  • David Clutterbuck, David Megginson (eds), Susan David
  • Ashgate Publishing
  • 2013

What is there in developmental relationships beyond setting and striving to achieve goals? The presence of goals in coaching and mentoring programs has gone largely unquestioned, yet evidence is growing that the standard prescription of SMART, challenging goals is not always appropriate - and even potentially dangerous - in the context of a complex and rapidly changing world. Beyond Goals advances standard goal-setting theory by bringing together cutting-edge perspectives from leaders in coaching and mentoring. From psychology to neuroscience, from chaos theory to social network theory, the contributors offer diverse and compelling insights into both the advantages and limitations of goal pursuit. The result is a more nuanced understanding of goals, with the possibility for practitioners to bring greater impact and sophistication to their client engagements. The implications of this reassessment are substantial for all those practicing as coaches and mentors, or managing coaching or mentoring initiatives in organizations.

About the Editors

Dr Susan David, a leading expert on coaching, is a founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School, on the Harvard Faculty, and CEO of Evidence Based Psychology, a leadership development and management consultancy that works with global organizations. She frequently contributes to the online Harvard Business Review and is principal editor of the Oxford Handbook of Happiness.

Professor David Clutterbuck is Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes and Sheffield Hallam Universities and heads the UK Research Committee of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. Clutterbuck has been listed amongst the most influential thinkers in Human Resources and top business coaches in the UK.

David Megginson is Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam University and founder of its Coaching and Mentoring Research Group. Megginson was Professor of Human Resource Development at the University. He has been co-chair of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.

In this Book

  • Beyond Goals—Effective Strategies for Coaching and Mentoring
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Goals: A Long-term View
  • Goals in Coaching and Mentoring: The Current State of Play
  • Researching Goals in Coaching
  • New Perspectives on Goal Setting in Coaching Practice: An Integrated Model of Goal-focused Coaching
  • Self-determination Theory within Coaching Contexts: Supporting Motives and Goals that Promote Optimal Functioning and Well-being
  • A Social Neuroscience Approach to Goal Setting for Coaches
  • Putting Goals to Work in Coaching: The Complexities of Implementation
  • The Coaching Engagement in the Twenty-first Century: New Paradigms for Complex Times
  • Goal Setting: A Chaos Theory of Careers Approach
  • When Goal Setting Helps and Hinders Sustained, Desired Change
  • The Goals Behind the Goals: Pursuing Adult Development in the Coaching Enterprise
  • GROW Grows Up: From Winning the Game to Pursuing Transpersonal Goals
  • Goals in Mentoring Relationships and Developmental Networks
  • Emergent Goals in Mentoring and Coaching
  • Goal Setting in a Layered Relationship Mentoring Model
  • Working with Emergent Goals: A Pragmatic Approach
  • The Way Forward: Perspectives from the Editors
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