What is best for Esther? Building improvement coaching capacity with and for users in health and social Care-A case study

While coaching and customer involvement can enhance the improvement of health and social care, many organizations struggle to develop their improvement capability; it is unclear how best to accomplish this. We examined one attempt at training improvement coaches. The program, set in the Esther Network for integrated care in rural Jonkoping County, Sweden, included eight 1-day sessions spanning 7 months in 2011. A senior citizen joined the faculty in all training sessions. Aiming to discern which elements in the program were essential for assuming the role of improvement coach, we used a case-study design with a qualitative approach. Our focus group interviews included 17 informants: 11 coaches, 3 faculty members, and 3 senior citizens. We performed manifest content analysis of the interview data. Creating will, ideas, execution, and sustainability emerged as crucial elements. These elements were promoted by customer focusembodied by the senior citizen trainershared values and a solution-focused approach, by the supportive coach network and by participants' expanded systems understanding. These elements emerged as more important than specific improvement tools and are worth considering also elsewhere when seeking to develop improvement capability in health and social care organizations.

COACHES, CLIMATES, “FIELD” GOALS, AND EFFICACY: A “DE-CONSTRUCTION” OF THE MASTERY-APPROACH TO COACHING AND EXAMINATION OF RELATIONSHIPS TO PSYCHOSOCIAL OUTCOMES IN A YOUTH FOOTBALL PLAYER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

In support of the achievement goal theory (AGT), empirical research has demonstrated psychosocial benefits of the mastery-oriented learning climate. In this study, we examined the effects of perceived coaching behaviors on various indicators of psychosocial well-being (competitive anxiety, self-esteem, perceived competence, enjoyment, and future intentions for participation), as mediated by perceptions of the coach-initiated motivational climate, achievement goal orientations and perceptions of sport-specific skills efficacy. Using a pre-post test design, 1,464 boys, ages 10-15 (M = 12.84 years, SD = 1.44), who participated in a series of 12 football skills clinics were surveyed from various locations across the United States. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) path analysis and hierarchical regression analysis, the cumulative direct and indirect effects of the perceived coaching behaviors on the psychosocial variables at post-test were parsed out to determine what types of coaching behaviors are more conducive to the positive psychosocial development of youth athletes. The study demonstrated that how coaching behaviors are perceived impacts the athletes’ perceptions of the motivational climate and achievement goal orientations, as well as self-efficacy beliefs. These effects in turn affect the athletes’ self-esteem, general competence, sport-specific competence, competitive anxiety, enjoyment, and intentions to remain involved in the sport. The findings also clarify how young boys internalize and interpret coaches’ messages through modification of achievement goal orientations and sport-specific efficacy beliefs.

Inteligencia Emocional y Coaching

El objetivo de este módulo es proporcionar al alumnado una introducción e idea del concepto de coaching, trabajar en el aula los principales recursos que pueden poner en práctica y desarrollar sus habilidades como coach. Existen multitudes de formas de hacer coaching de manera sistémica, ontológica pero modelo que trabajamos es el coaching co- activo. Este modelo define el coaching como una alianza entre dos personas para alcanzar las metas que el cliente se ha propuesto es una relación de igualdad. Este tipo de coaching hace que el coach se centre en su coachee en una relación hacia el futuro y tome el pasado o el presente como una breve referencia para iniciarlo hacia el camino que nunca hubiese imaginado que podía llegar. El coach realiza una tarea de acompañamiento, actuando como un espejo para que el coachee se vea reflejado para llegar a esa consecución de metas que se ha fijado. En este tipo de coaching existen tres pilares importantes: • La plenitud es la vida que el coachee valora más en plenitud, en el aquí y el ahora. • El equilibrio el coaching de equilibrio ayuda a tomar decisiones que le hagan sentirse vivos y proporciona responsabilidad personal • El proceso estamos inmersos de manera constante en el contexto de nuestra vida . El trabajo del coach con el coachee es estar continuamente en ese proceso. El fin último de todo este proceso es ayudar al coachee a alcanzar la plenitud, el equilibrio y sobre todo maximizar en estas tres áreas. El coaching co- activo tiene cinco pilares fundamentales • El cliente es una persona creativa, completa y llena de recursos es lo que surge por encima de las creencias limitantes. El coach tiene las preguntas y el coachee las respuestas. • El coaching co-activo actúa sobre todas las facetas del coachee se centra en la plenitud, proceso y equilibrio. • El coachee es quién establece la agenda, su proceso está centrado en sus objetivos y debe ser consciente de que debe comprometerse con el ciclo vital • El coach baila con el coachee no se trata de un plan rígido sino un proceso que marca el coachee.

Strategic business plan: Strategies to make coaching for all a successful project

Coaching for all (C4all) is a project created by TESE-Associação para o Desenvolvimento or TESE-Association for development (TESE), aimed at disseminating and democratizing access to coaching methods among people seeking employment and other vulnerable groups of people. The initial results of the C4All project were well below their expectations. Therefore, we developed a Business Plan in order to understand if and how the performance of C4all can be improved. The results of our analysis suggest a number of changes that C4all need to undertake in order to survive and achieve better outcomes in the future

Aplicación del método coaching para la mejora del desempeño de los trabajadores y la calidad de los procesos productivos en la mediana empresa industrial textil de la Ciudad de Santa Ana

Debido a la necesidad de las empresas de contar con nuevos métodos en la actualidad, surge la idea de adoptar sistemas eficientes que vallan a la vanguardia del buen funcionamiento del desempeño de los trabajadores, para obtener resultados que favorezcan el logro de los objetivos empresariales. Es así como dentro del conjunto de métodos innovadores se encuentra el Coaching que con del paso de los años se ha consolidado como una herramienta utilizada para que a través del dialogo se pueda llegar al conocimiento. A partir del conocimiento y aplicación del método Coaching, empiezan a surgir definiciones que ayudan a encontrar el rumbo para cumplir los objetivos fijados por las organizaciones, por lo cual se describe como un proceso de acompañamiento orientado al cambio y desarrollo de habilidades de personas o grupos inherentes a las empresas, guiados por un coach que sirve como medio para exteriorizar respuestas que sean de gran ayuda para trasladar a personas, de una situación dada a una situación deseada.

Un pasaje controvertido en los Annales de Eutiquio de Alejandría. El ataque judío a la ciudad de Tiro

En los Annales compuestos por el patriarca Eutiquio de Alejandría encontramos algunos pasajes originales, que no están presentes en otras fuentes, por lo que muchos estudiosos han descartado su verosimilitud. No obstante, hay que tener muy presente el contexto h istórico en el que este personaje vivió, en contacto tanto con musulmanes como con judíos. Un ejemplo de esto es el relato que hace del ataque de los judíos contra la ciudad fenicia de Tiro durante la guerra romano-persa (603-628), calificado como fantasioso. Sin embargo, cambia la perspectiva cuando se lo relaciona con textos apocalípticos de la tradición hebrea.

Coaching nutricional para la pérdida de peso

Introducción: debido a la alta prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad se hacen necesarias nuevas estrategias para su prevención y tratamiento. El coaching nutricional (CN) ha emergido en los últimos años y ha demostrado ser efectivo para la pérdida de peso aunque, al ser un concepto innovador, no siempre se utiliza apropiadamente. Objetivo: verificar si el CN, junto con el asesoramiento técnico, es una estrategia efectiva para la disminución de peso en población con sobrepeso u obesidad en comparación con el asesoramiento nutricional por sí solo. Material y métodos: se revisó la bibliografía referente a CN para determinar los parámetros de calidad en cuanto a esta intervención. Se realizó una búsqueda de estudios controlados aleatorizados que aplicaran CN según los parámetros seleccionados y lo compararan con asesoramiento técnico nutricional. Resultados: se analizaron ocho estudios con alta calidad en la intervención de coaching y calidad metodológica media o alta. Seis de ellos indicaron diferencias significativas a favor del grupo que recibió CN. Conclusión: el CN es una estrategia efectiva para bajar de peso. Se necesitan más investigaciones con una definición clara de la metodología utilizada para aportar solidez a este nuevo enfoque.

Investigating the effects of cognitive apprenticeship-based instructional coaching on science teaching efficacy beliefs

The overall purpose of this collected papers dissertation was to examine the utility of a cognitive apprenticeship-based instructional coaching (CAIC) model for improving the science teaching efficacy beliefs (STEB) of preservice and inservice elementary teachers. Many of these teachers perceive science as a difficult subject and feel inadequately prepared to teach it. However, teacher efficacy beliefs have been noted as the strongest indicator of teacher quality, the variable most highly correlated with student achievement outcomes. The literature is scarce on strong, evidence-based theoretical models for improving STEB.^ This dissertation is comprised of two studies. STUDY #1 was a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study investigating the impact of a reformed CAIC elementary science methods course on the STEB of 26 preservice teachers. Data were collected using the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI-B) and from six post-course interviews. A statistically significant increase in STEB was observed in the quantitative strand. The qualitative data suggested that the preservice teachers perceived all of the CAIC methods as influential, but the significance of each method depended on their unique needs and abilities. ^ STUDY #2 was a participatory action research case study exploring the utility of a CAIC professional development program for improving the STEB of five Bahamian inservice teachers and their competency in implementing an inquiry-based curriculum. Data were collected from pre- and post-interviews and two focus group interviews. Overall, the inservice teachers perceived the intervention as highly effective. The scaffolding and coaching were the CAIC methods portrayed as most influential in developing their STEB, highlighting the importance of interpersonal relationship aspects in successful instructional coaching programs. The teachers also described the CAIC approach as integral in supporting their learning to implement the new inquiry-based curriculum. ^ The overall findings hold important implications for science education reform, including its potential to influence how preservice teacher training and inservice teacher professional development in science are perceived and implemented. Additionally, given the noteworthy results obtained over the relatively short durations, CAIC interventions may also provide an effective means of achieving improvements in preservice and inservice teachers’ STEB more expeditiously than traditional approaches.^

El cuerpo y el mundo: el motivo del microcosmos en el neoplatonismo judío medieval (al-Andalus, siglos XI-XII)

En este trabajo estudio un conjunto de tratados filosóficos, de corte neoplatónico, compuestos en al-Andalus en los siglos XI y XII que presentan el motivo del microcosmos: la idea de que el hombre es una representación a pequeña escala del mundo, y el mundo, una representación a gran escala del hombre. He identificado cinco textos neoplatónicos judíos que tratan de esta doctrina en gran detalle: Fons Vitae (que solo se conserva en versiones latina y hebrea, pero que originalmente llevaba el título árabe Yanbū> 'l-úayāh) y La corrección de los caracteres (Kitāb i§lāú al-akhlāq) de Salomón ibn Gabirol; Los deberes de los corazones (Al-hidāja ilā farā’id al-qulūb) de Baúya ibn Paquda; el anónimo tratado sobre el alma conocido como Kitāb ma>ānī al-nafs, que fue atribuido pseudepigráficamente a Baúya ibn Paquda; y El microcosmos (que solo se conserva en traducción hebrea, bajo el título de Sefer ha->olam ha-qa‹an, pero que fue muy probablemente compuesto en árabe), de Yosef ibn êaddiq. En mi examen de este conjunto de obras, dedico especial atención al contexto cultural islamicado (empleo el término acuñado por Marshall Hodgson) en el que fueron producidas. Todas estas obras fueron compuestas originalmente en lengua árabe o judeoárabe, y son producto de la cultura islamicada andalusí; por ello, haré a lo largo de mi exposición referencias frecuentes al motivo del microcosmos en el pensamiento árabe medieval, y a las corrientes filosóficas, intelectuales, y religiosas que conformaron el mundo en el que los filósofos judíos andalusíes vivieron y trabajaron...

Coaching or gaming? Implications of strategy choice for home based stroke rehabilitation

Background: The enduring aging of the world population and prospective increase of age-related chronic diseases urge the implementation of new models for healthcare delivery. One strategy relies on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) home-based solutions allowing clients to pursue their treatments without institutionalization. Stroke survivors are a particular population that could strongly benefit from such solutions, but is not yet clear what the best approach is for bringing forth an adequate and sustainable usage of home-based rehabilitation systems. Here we explore two possible approaches: coaching and gaming. Methods: We performed trials with 20 healthy participants and 5 chronic stroke survivors to study and compare execution of an elbow flexion and extension task when performed within a coaching mode that provides encouragement or within a gaming mode. For each mode we analyzed compliance, arm movement kinematics and task scores. In addition, we assessed the usability and acceptance of the proposed modes through a customized self-report questionnaire. Results: In the healthy participants sample, 13/20 preferred the gaming mode and rated it as being significantly more fun (p < .05), but the feedback delivered by the coaching mode was subjectively perceived as being more useful (p < .01). In addition, the activity level (number of repetitions and total movement of the end effector) was significantly higher (p <.001) during coaching. However, the quality of movements was superior in gaming with a trend towards shorter movement duration (p=.074), significantly shorter travel distance (p <.001), higher movement efficiency (p <.001) and higher performance scores (p <.001). Stroke survivors also showed a trend towards higher activity levels in coaching, but with more movement quality during gaming. Finally, both training modes showed overall high acceptance. Conclusions: Gaming led to higher enjoyment and increased quality in movement execution in healthy participants. However, we observed that game mechanics strongly determined user behavior and limited activity levels. In contrast, coaching generated higher activity levels. Hence, the purpose of treatment and profile of end-users has to be considered when deciding on the most adequate approach for home based stroke rehabilitation.

A importancia do coaching na gestao de uma PME

No decorrer desta dissertação será possível verificar a importância do coaching no planeamento e gestão de uma PME. Através de um modelo previamente definido, o modelo TGROW, e da sua aplicação a um caso especifico procura-se os resultados obtidos através desta metodologia e a sua implicação dos processos e no desempenho do trabalho. Com este estudo pretende-se assim demonstrar que é possível melhorar os níveis de produtividade e eficiência dentro de uma organização através do coaching, nomeadamente pela relevância atribuída ás pessoas dentro da organização. Desta forma, apostando na formação dos colaboradores da empresa e de algum modo possibilitando o acesso a um programa de coaching terá como consequência uma valorização dos recurdos humanos da empresa e uma melhoria dos seus resultados globais. Com a aplicação do modelo TGROW a uma PME foi possível registar mudanças significativas no modus operandi do colaborador constatando-se que estas mudanças contribuíram para uma melhoria no desempenho e na eficácia das tarefas realizadas.

Coaching or gaming? Implications of strategy choice for home based stroke rehabilitation

Background: The enduring aging of the world population and prospective increase of age-related chronic diseases urge the implementation of new models for healthcare delivery. One strategy relies on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) home-based solutions allowing clients to pursue their treatments without institutionalization. Stroke survivors are a particular population that could strongly benefit from such solutions, but is not yet clear what the best approach is for bringing forth an adequate and sustainable usage of home-based rehabilitation systems. Here we explore two possible approaches: coaching and gaming. Methods: We performed trials with 20 healthy participants and 5 chronic stroke survivors to study and compare execution of an elbow flexion and extension task when performed within a coaching mode that provides encouragement or within a gaming mode. For each mode we analyzed compliance, arm movement kinematics and task scores. In addition, we assessed the usability and acceptance of the proposed modes through a customized self-report questionnaire. Results: In the healthy participants sample, 13/20 preferred the gaming mode and rated it as being significantly more fun (p < .05), but the feedback delivered by the coaching mode was subjectively perceived as being more useful (p < .01). In addition, the activity level (number of repetitions and total movement of the end effector) was significantly higher (p <.001) during coaching. However, the quality of movements was superior in gaming with a trend towards shorter movement duration (p=.074), significantly shorter travel distance (p <.001), higher movement efficiency (p <.001) and higher performance scores (p <.001). Stroke survivors also showed a trend towards higher activity levels in coaching, but with more movement quality during gaming. Finally, both training modes showed overall high acceptance. Conclusions: Gaming led to higher enjoyment and increased quality in movement execution in healthy participants. However, we observed that game mechanics strongly determined user behavior and limited activity levels. In contrast, coaching generated higher activity levels. Hence, the purpose of treatment and profile of end-users has to be considered when deciding on the most adequate approach for home based stroke rehabilitation.

El Coaching y el Liderazgo en las Organizaciones

Los estudios de liderazgo han abordado la interacción que existe entre el sujeto denominado líder y sus seguidores. Dentro de dicha relación se han estudiado las habilidades del líder y su impacto como coach. Hoy en día se pueden evidenciar un sinnúmero de estudios y aproximaciones en torno al término coaching, concepto, marcos teóricos, modelos, etc… En el presente artículo se hará un proceso investigativo en el que se define coaching desde el punto de vista de varios autores, expertos y managers que se desarrollan en el ámbito empresarial para poder encontrar una definición que comprenda las dimensiones del mundo organizacional, A continuación, se hará una búsqueda sistemática de las definiciones de coaching y a partir de esta búsqueda se propondrá una definición integradora que dé cuenta de los diversos ámbitos del estudio del liderazgo. Al revisar la terminología en cuanto a liderazgo y coaching, junto con su relación directa no hay una definición que realmente abarque todo el tema organizacional que implica estas dos palabras.

Understanding the Coach-Coachee-Client relationship: A conceptual framework for executive coaching

Objectives: There is a need for a more comprehensive understanding of how coaching processes psychologically operate. This paper presents the findings from a study aimed to characterise the coaching process experience and to identify how specific experiences contribute to coaching outcomes. Design: A qualitative design was adopted. Data was analysed by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith, 2008). Method: Data was collected from 10 participants, this included coaches (N=4), coachees (N=5) and one commissioner, three times along the coaching process. A total of 30 interviews were undertaken. Findings: Coaching outcomes can be generated by three essential mechanisms: Projection of Future Self; Perspectivation of Present Self; and Confirmation of Past/Present Self. Each mechanism’s name represents a particular effect on coachee’s self and may evolve diverse coaching behaviours. Although they all can be actively managed to generate sustainability of outcomes, each mechanism tends to contribute differently to that sustainability. Conclusion: The study provides a comprehensive understanding of the different methodological and experiential ingredients of the coaching process and its implications. While most coaching research is focused on identifying coaching results based on a retrospective analysis, this is one of the first studies accompanying longitudinally the coaching process and capturing an integrative understanding of its dynamics. Moreover, the study provides evidence of how coaching can differently deliver sustainable outcomes and be used as a valuable developmental tool in organisations. The study contributes to our understanding of theory building and raises questions for further research on the uniqueness of coaching interventions.

A abordagem centrada na pessoa e a psicologia do esporte : vivência de um psicólogo com jogadores e a comissão técnica de uma equipe durante os períodos de preparação e disputa da Copa São Paulo de Futebol Júnior

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física