Fiona Beddoes-Jones & Julia Miller

This paper was presented at the 1st International Coaching Psychology Conference, London, December, 2006.

A small case study focusing on the development of metacognitive awareness and subsequent development of cognitive and behavioural strategies over a three month period designed to answer the following questions; Can a short-term cognitive behavioural coaching intervention, firstly, add ‘significant’ personal and professional value as measured by qualitative methods, and secondly, if so, are there subsequent statistically significant changes in people’s self-reported scores on a measure of cognitive style preference?

Keywords: authenticity, authentic leadership, coaching, cognitive coaching, executive coaching, cognitive behavioural approach, metacognitive, metacognition, organisational psychology, coaching psychology, coaching research, thinking styles.

Full article: Volume 3, Issue 2 pages 60 - 69