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clients as it is done for example with the ECVision Glossary’. Professionalism in
coaching covers individually varying understandings and no strict and binding
commitment and standards’. This situation leads to confusion, quality issues
and blurred borders between coaching and other methods which may end up
in an irrevocable damage for coaching. Interest in professional providers of
coaching services, standards and clear definitions of formats is increasing and
makes research in coaching indispensable.
Adding to this, coaching is offered technology-enhanced in form of
e-coaching* which is not well researched either’.
In this paper a self-e-coaching offer is introduced as a special type of
e-coaching which is based on a concept derived from the Karlsruhe School".
The concepts heart-piece, the change of pattern state’, is a challenge in
implementation that needs to be tackled. A current study on the effect of self-e¬
coaching through an app on self-reflection of university students from different
professions at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany will be described
and first preliminary results presented’.
The paper presents possible solutions on how the change of pattern state can
be implemented in self-e-coaching, if it was accepted by the students, and what
these results imply for coaching practitioners.
CHALLENGES FOR SELF-E-COACHING
The first challenge to be addressed in this paper is to find out about effect and
acceptance of self-e-coaching which requires a short introduction into this
format first.
2 ECVision, Product, www.anse.eu/ecvision/products.html, accessed 31 July 2015.
3 Christoph Schmidt-Lellek, The Development of Coaching as a Profession, in Deutscher
Bundesverband Coaching e.V. (DBVC; German Federal Association for Executive Coaching)
(ed.), Guidelines and Recommendations on the Development of Coaching as a Profession,
Osnabrueck, Steinbacher Druck, 2012, 11-17, www.dbvc.de/fileadmin/user_upload/
dokumente/Coaching-Kompendium/DBVC-Kompendium_englisch.pdf, accessed 31 July
2015.
* Sometimes also referred to as online-coaching, digital coaching, tele coaching, web-based
coaching etc.
5 Harald Geissler - Melanie Hasenbein — Robert Wegener, E-Coaching: Prozess-und
Ergebnisevaluation des “Virtuellen Zielerreichungscoachings”, Organisationsberatung,
Supervision, Coaching 20 (2) (2013) 125-142.
° “Karlsruher Schule”
“Musterzustandsänderung”
® "The information result from a doctoral project of the author (Carmen Wolf) who is currently
researching on the effect of a self-coaching app on result-oriented self-reflection.
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