Embracing the coaching paradox

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Embracing the Paradox

What is coaching? Is it teaching, or is it motivating? Or is it, as Steven Barnson from the University of Nevada suggests, both teaching and motivating and many other behaviours simultaneously?

In a new research article, Barnson argues that coaching needs to adopt a theory of paradox to truly understand what a coach does and therefore to improve coaching practice. This summary provides an overview of the concept of paradox and how a coach can embrace the paradox.


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