Research on Sustainability

Over the past five years, Laura Crawshaw has successfully coached over four hundred abrasive managers and she has trained over one hundred new boss whisperers, many of whom have gone on to successfully coach their own clients.  The question being asked now, however, is how long does it last?  In other words, once an abrasive individual has been successfully coached through the boss whispering method, will they continue to be nonabrasive indefinitely or is there a point at which they could revert back to their old ways?

In the hope of answering this question, Laura has teamed up with an experienced researcher from Australia to develop survey instruments for gathering data from coaches, clients, and sponsor organization regarding the coaching experience, and to collect and analyze the data from the past and going forward.

During the symposium, we spent several hours with the researcher reviewing the first drafts of the surveys and making suggestions for improvement.  It was quite an honor to be part of the beginning of this important research and I look forward to providing data of my own once I start coaching my own abrasive clients.