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Each coaching relationship is reliant upon the unique and special connection between the coach and the coachee. In this paper, which is an adaptation of the talk I gave to the „Coaching meets Research” conference in June 2010, I want to suggest that because of that unique connection we need approaches to the research of coaching that reflect the distinctiveness of the relationship. I want to argue that researching a confidential relationship is challenging. It is hard to know what really happens between two people because the very methods we use to study the relationship interfere with that relationship. The aim of this paper therefore is to consider three quite specific research methodologies that are, I suggest, particularly suited to the study of coaching.
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Cox, E. (2011). Innovative Ways to Research Coaching. In: Wegener, R., Fritze, A., Loebbert, M. (eds) Coaching entwickeln. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93059-6_6
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