What do you Really Want: an Examination of the Pursuit of Goal Setting in Coaching

This article examines what appears to be a societal compulsion towards goal pursuit and target setting within a coaching context. It explores the dissonance between coaching principles and coaching practice and the negative consequences of such a target driven culture. Concerns are that practitioner...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Debra Jinks, Janice Dexter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Brookes University 2012-08-01
Series:International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring
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Online Access:https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/file/59a166d6-9d8f-4d0b-80b9-bc1930c1aa85/1/vol10issue2-paper-08.pdf