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Coaching industry has flourished spectacularly with services usage, revenue, number of certification programs and new career entries being on the rise. The greatest proportion of coaching clients are managers, executives and business owners/entrepreneurs. Given the nature of their work, these individuals are prone to face numerous difficulties that affect not only their subjective well-being, but also, in the end, the success of the organization they work in. The goal of this chapter is to present how the principles and methods of Albert Ellis' rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) could be used as a guide to executive coaching. We start the chapter by briefly presenting the theory behind rational emotive behavioural executive coaching (REBEC), while also addressing several specific questions that could arise when working with executives (i.e., What are the particularities of executives/managers as clients?; What could REBEC target?; How to approach lack of decisiveness and resistance to change?). Also, we provide several guidelines for structuring a typical REBEC intervention. Then, we wrap things up by providing some thoughts and final recommendations regarding what to keep in mind (what to do and what to avoid) when working as a REB executive coach.

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  1. Department of Psychology, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

    Diana Paula Dudău, Nastasia Sălăgean & Florin Alin Sava

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  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Michael E. Bernard

  2. International Coaching Institute, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Oana A. David

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Dudău, D.P., Sălăgean, N., Sava, F.A. (2018). Executive Coaching. In: Bernard, M., David, O. (eds) Coaching for Rational Living. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74067-6_17

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