Johan Bouwer & Jacoba van Egmond

Objectives: Identifying those (moderating) factors that are instrumental in the successful completion of a coaching trajectory that is based on the Van Egmond Coaching Model (VECM).

Design: Qualitative.

Methods: Data were collected by means of three questionnaires: a semi-structured questionnaire for the clients, a semi-structured questionnaire for the clients’ managers and a regular evaluation form for the coach. The authors of this paper analysed the data manually, first independently from each other and then again, in a joint session.

Results: The most important moderating factors of the VECM appeared to be the client’s readiness to change (will), the client-coach relationship, the manager’s role and the coach’s expertise.

Conclusions: Most of the outcomes of this study were (structurally) congruous to those of earlier studies. Remarkably, ‘relationship’ and ‘will’ were valued higher in this study, and managers assumed their own roles in the success of coaching to be more significant than was perceived by clients. Follow-up studies, particularly into the role of managers, the precise nature and role of the will of clients, the assessment of the client-coach relationship in various contexts, the effects and role of the coach’s gender and the extent to which familiarity with the theoretical building blocks of the VECM has an influence on interpreting the coaching effects are recommended.

Keywords: Moderating factors; Evidence-based coaching; Triangle model; Relationship; Will.

Full article: Volume 7, Issue 1 pages 55 - 63