Coaching har under de senaste decennierna växt fram som en metod att utveckla individer, både av individuella coacher och av ledare som använder coaching i sitt ledarskap. Mycket tid och pengar investeras i coaching av både företag, organisationer och privatpersoner. Denna uppsats består dels av en litteraturstudie och dels av en kvalitativ del och har för avsikt att bringa klarhet i vad coaching är, vad coaching inbegriper, hur coaching bör utövas och syftet med coaching utifrån coachers perspektiv. Den kvalitativa del utgörs av intervjuer med åtta kvinnor och män mellan 35-55 år som har relevant erfarenhet av coaching. Resultaten ger ingen entydig bild av coaching.

During later years coaching has gained popularity. Coaching offers help to learn rather than to teach and enables optimal performance. The method that builds consciousness, strengthens choices and leads to change in the wanted direction, can deduce to some of history's most successful educationalists. A coaching area steadily increasing is business- and executive coaching. The overall purpose with this paper is to explain what coaching is generally speaking, with specific focus on business- and executive coaching.

In recent years coaching has become an increasingly popular phenomenon outside of the sports world. More and more people have found coaching to be a helpful tool for achieving greater performance and fulfillment in their lives. This thesis is a comparative literature study of three books about coaching where the authors use different theoretical bases to explain and teach coaching. The aim of the thesis is to explain how coaching as a phenomenon is described and compare these descriptions as well as to look at the ideals and norms that are produced and reproduced in the use of coaching. The study compares the three books from six different themes and shows that, in the use of coaching, the ideal of a rational and action oriented individual is constructed and the aim for this individual is some form of success.

Background: The world of sports possesses a lot of knowledge when it comes to leadarship and coaching. Coaching as a term is relatively new to the business industry and something that is up and coming among alot of companies. Leadership and coaching are two terms that can be combined with each other both in sports and in the business industry.Objectives: This study aims to compare leadership in sports and in the business industry. The purpose is to see if they can learn from each other and how they define the term leadership.Method: Interviews were chosen as a method in this study. Six individual interviews were performed and there were three leaders from the business industry and three leaders from the world of sport participating in the study.

Personal Life Coaching is a new profession in Sweden. A Personal Life Coach wants to empower his/her client to make changes, clarify needs and reach goals. A coach can also be just a pivotal human connection for dialogue. The need for coaching has grown due to the societal changes and unsure rules on the labourmarket. Personal Life Coaching lays the groundwork for competence development and good health..

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Labour market coaching (Swedish:?Jobbcoachning?) was a comprehensive political project for the Swedish labour market, with the aim of helping unemployed individuals to enter the labour market. Between 2009-2014  the labour market coaching was carried out by private companies through governmental regulations. This thesis aims to find out (1) what coaching activities the coaches used, and (2) how these coaching activities can be understood in the light of previous scientific research. My results consist of interviews conducted with six labour market coaches.

The use of coaching is fairly up to date in the business world although it?s relatively new.Despite this, there?s a lack of clarity about what coaching is and what it signifies. Our point ishowever not to define coaching. Based on the normative coaching literature, the purpose is,from a critical discourse analysis to explore the power relations that affect the coach andcoached in their relation to each other, so as to be able to criticize managerial coachingrelationship as presented in the literature. This will contribute to enabling for a more opendiscourse.The theoretical image of managerial coaching described by the literature as a democraticexercised leadership by a certain type of behavior and attitudes, will lead to improvedorganizational performance.

Coaching har kommit att bli trendigt i alla möjliga sammanhang och verksamheter och kallas för en ?ny och fräsch idé?. Vi har ställt oss frågan vad socialt arbete kan ha för användning av coaching. Då litteraturen om coaching är mångfacetterad har vi själva först behövt tydliggöra och förstå vad coaching innebär. Studien handlar om hur coaching har hamnat i socialt arbete och vad man har fått för användning av coaching.

Begreppen coaching och empowerment har blivit mycket populära. Coaching är att hjälpa människor att lyckas. Empowerment översätts på svenska med egenmakt och maktmobilisering. Syfte med denna studie är att undersöka hur coaching kan hjälpa till att främja empowerment och därmed bidra till att öka människornas hälsa. Frågeställningar är: Vilka samband finns det mellan coaching och empowerment? Hur påverkar empowerment människornas hälsa? Kan man öka individens hälsa med coaching? Uppsatsen grundas på en litteraturstudie.

Lärande är enligt forskare centralt för att åstadkomma utveckling och förändring med hjälp av coaching. Av den redan bristande evidensbas som idag finns för coaching, utgörs endast en liten del av forskning om detta lärande. Med anledning av detta gjordes en studie för att undersöka yrkesverksamma coachers uppfattningar om lärandet som sker i coachingprocessen, samt deras uppfattningar om coaching som profession. Urvalet bestod av yrkesverksamma coacher, certifierade av branschorganisationen ICF. Metoden som valdes var kvalitativa intervjuer.

Background: The world of sports possesses a lot of knowledge when it comes to leadarship and coaching. Coaching as a term is relatively new to the business industry and something that is up and coming among alot of companies. Leadership and coaching are two terms that can be combined with each other both in sports and in the business industry.Objectives: This study aims to compare leadership in sports and in the business industry. The purpose is to see if they can learn from each other and how they define the term leadership.Method: Interviews were chosen as a method in this study. Six individual interviews were performed and there were three leaders from the business industry and three leaders from the world of sport participating in the study.

Denna studie ämnar belysa coaching och undersöka relationen mellan coaching och kompetensutveckling. Syftet är att undersöka hur coaching kan hjälpa till kompetensutveckling i arbetslivet. Genom en kvalitativ textanalys granskas texter om arbete med kompetensutveckling. Intentionen med granskningen är att undersöka likheter mellan coaching och arbete med kompetensutveckling. Texterna valdes slumpmässigt ut med förutsättning att de hade en gemensam faktor, vilket i detta fall är att de representerar olika fackförbund.Med hermeneutik som vetenskaplig ansats tolkas texterna med hjälp av den hermeneutiska cirkeln som tillvägagångssätt.

SammanfattningSyfte och frågeställningarSyftet med denna studie är att undersöka coachingens effekter i en matchsituation i judo.Frågeställningar:? Hur kan coaching leda till resultatförbättring i en matchsituation i judo?? Hur kan coaching öka motivationen hos en person i en matchsituation i judo?MetodDenna studie har en kvalititativ ansats och jag har använt intervjuer och observationer. Sammanlagt är det fem personer som deltagit i denna studie varav fyra har fått vara med om matchliknande situationer. Jag har då observerat matcherna och sedan intervjuat personerna.ResultatResultatet visar att coaching kan öka motivationen samt leda till resultatförbättring i matchsituationer i judo.SlutsatsAv studiens resultat har jag dragit slutsatsen att med coaching ökas motivationen hos utövaren. Coaching verkar även förbättra resultatet för utövaren.

Abstract Title: Coaching Leadership - A win-win situation? Level: Final assignment for Master Degree in Business Administration Author: Helena Gustafsson Supervisor: Pär Vilhelmson Date: 2012 ? mars Aim: The purpose of this study is to examine how companies use the coaching leadership and how the employees perceive to have a manager who uses this way to lead. Method: The study was conducted as a qualitative study in which interviews was an important feature. The information I gathered is the basis for analysis and final discussion. The material has been collected through personal interviews with two managers and then I send questions to the employees by e-mail that they responded. This is to get such an interesting empirical data as possible.