Abstract
This paper briefly explains the content of“Evidence Based Coaching Handbook” (Stober and Grant eds., 2006). This book applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, while bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. Its contributors examine various approaches and apply each to the same two case studies, demonstrating the methods, assumptions and concepts at work in the different approaches. They believe that evidence based practice holds promise as a guide for critical evaluation and development in coaching.
