This article presents arguments for applying the transactional analysis (TA) in the coaching. Theoretical notions, techniques and workings models of TA can arrange a practice of coaching. Coaching simply needs many theories as sources of its inspiration. TA refers to a current of positive psychology. It discusses a norm and a supporting the development and it does not concentrate on pathology. TA is the conception, which the language is simply, blunt and humorous.

The present article describes in detail a model for coaching supervision, created on the basis of the author’s own experience and information acquired during an annual supervisor training programme led by the Academy of Executive Coaching.

The world of a leader in today’s business environment requires much more than insights regarding intra-personal and/or inter-personal issues. If you want to coach someone who is a leader, you need a larger worldview and a very diRerent way of think- ing about your task.

The main aim of the article is to introduce systemic coaching alongside the Kiel Counselling Model, and to show its historical and theoretical roots. The article also shows the practical implementation of the Kiel Counselling Model in a coaching session. It works with two coaches for one client, as well as a reflecting team that brings ideas, fantasies and compliments for the client into the proccess.

In this article the author focuses on the most valuable aspects of co-active coaching,
that make it different from other approaches.

The article makes an a empt at deA ning the in uence that subordinates have on their leader. is factor can be pivotal in the process of leader coaching. Recommenda-tion of some practical solutions to leader coaching, with followers of leaders also paid attention to, can give some useful tips not only to the departments of human resources and to active coaches but also to leaders themselves. It could be very beneficial to show reciprocal influence between leaders and their subordinates.

This article presents a number of legal issues relating to the broad understanding of the concept of coaching. At the present stage of coaching services development in Poland it is essential to begin a discussion on their legal aspects, including the dangers arising from poorly delivered services by persons engaged in providing coaching services.

This is paper explores a post-modern Gestalt approach to coaching which suggests multiple levels of engagement inclusive of physical/sensory, social/cultural, emotional/biological, projective/imagined and spiritual/intuitive levels of influence. The model reviewed here focuses primarily upon the ‘process’ of communication rather than its content, and deals with what is emerging ‘now’ rather than past problems and issues.