Success factors in business coaching

Coaching is an integral part of human resource development in large and medium-sized companies and it increasingly prevails against other forms of intervention. With the growing popularity of business coaching, the importance of and the need for well-founded research to create an empirically validated, reliable basis increases as well.

This project predominantly examines the drivers of coaching success. They are analysed in terms of their variability and changeability. The research objective is to investigate if there are differences between several groups of coaching users. Of interest is whether effectiveness and success of coaching can be better explained by inter-group or intra-group differences in performance-relevant factors and how the factor sets that most significantly determine coaching success differ between these groups.