Carol Kauffman & P. Alex Linley

Although the senior author has many professional roles, her primary endeavour is coaching. As such, she wanted to ensure that this special Positive Psychology issue of the International Coaching Psychology Review offered practical tools that readers could translate into coaching acumen; each article had to pass the ‘so what?’ test. The six empirical studies and one review paper will expand your toolbox of evidence-based coaching practices.

Today, or this week, or the next time you are in sessions, you might take a moment to consider if something from this issue might be useful. We hope these articles will help broaden your theory base, expand your coaching toolbox, and enhance your coaching skills. To do this we must tap into our creativity and synthesis skills, and sense how each article might inspire evidenced based action. We offer just a few possibilities herein, and it is up to Coaching Psychologists to take this work further. If you make progress or encounter barriers as you strive to apply this or other novel information, consider writing a case study to broaden the knowledge base for fellow coaches. Your work might be suitable for future issues of this or other coaching journals. In addition, notice if the work you create might be studied in a qualitative or quantitative manner with pre and post measures you might use to translate your practice into research. To help you, free sessions with research mentors are available, contact the senior author or the non-profit institute: TheFoundationofCoaching.org.

We will now discuss each article presented in this issue. First, we will provide a detailed description of how this information might be applied, using the first article for illustrative purposes. After discussing application of the first article in some depth, we will discuss application of subsequent articles with less detail.

Full article: Volume 2, Issue 1 pages 97 - 102