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Paper presented at The First Australian Conference on Evidenced-BasedCoaching at the University of Sydney, Australia on July 7-8, 2003 If coaching is to gain credibility as a profession, it is essentialthat coaching practice be informed by rigorous and substantivetheory.The discipline of Ontology, which has emerged from the integrationof significant 20th century developments in the biology…

Many of our basic beliefs about what is possible and how work is accomplished have been challenged over the past two decades. Globalization, technological advances, and environmental and security concerns have affected the daily operations of even the most traditionally stable institutions. Large-scale change initiatives have barely kept pace with rapidly shrinking resources, increased competition…

Competence is more than a skill. It is the abilityto make and keep promises. I believe we can teach a skill, but needto coach people to be competent. In our work with individual clientsand organizations we stress the importance of having action matchcommitments and not becoming trapped in conventional wisdom whichcan block our capacity to create…