Requisite Organization
Aligning managerial accountability with human capability Organizations can be construed as stratified human systems with vertical alignment of positions into a hierarchy of (a) tasks,…
Setting up and running your coaching practice
{Szabo, 2010. In Passmore (Ed.), Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide (2nd Ed.)} Conclusions How aligned are I and my coaching practice; have I covered…
Leveraging the external coaching investment
{Tulpa, 2010. In Passmore (Ed.), Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide (2nd Ed.)} Sponsors involved in leading an organization’s coaching investment are asking: How do…
Coaching within organizations
{Tulpa, 2010. In Passmore (Ed.), Excellence in Coaching: The Industry Guide (2nd Ed.)} Organizational coaching framework (OCF), the coach’s perspective. Building the business case Systemic…
Business Coaching Processes: Phases of the Coaching Engagement
{Klopper & Van Coller-Peter, 2018. Business coaching processes that facilitate the successful implementation of business improvement projects. IJEBCM 2018, Vol. 16(2), pp. 20-31.} Introduction Implementing,…
Lifelong Learning
{Passarelli & Kolb, 2021. The learning way: Learning from experience as the path to lifelong learning and development. In London, (Ed.), Handbook of lifelong learning.}…
Transformative Learning Theory and its Evolution
Transformative Learning {Mezirow, 1997} Transformative learning develops autonomous thinking, the central goal of adult education. This implies learning to make our own interpretations, using our…
Experiential Learning
Dewey, Lewin, Piaget, and Kolb emphasize learning by doing. Individuals learn best through experience, by direct encounters in the present, and by adapting to the…
Transformation Theory of Education
Introduced by Jack Mezirow and Victoria Marsick in 1978 in a paper originating from grounded research. Concepts: transformative learning, meaning perspective, meaning schemata, frame of…
Mezirow’s Transformative Learning Theory
The aim or outcome is to transform a meaning perspective, reassessing presuppositional beliefs reflectively and acting on insights. Reflection and action then alter deep and…
Values, Motivation, and Self-efficacy in Adult Learning
Values are ideas about good and bad and how things should be. Motivation is the internally generated state or feeling that stimulates us to act.…
Bould’s Reflective Practice
Learning through critical questioning and reflectivity effectively externalizes deep-seated assumptions, leading to transformation. Learners engage in recapturing, noticing, and reevaluating their experiences. For significant personal…
Knowles’ Andragogy
{Cox, 2006. An Adult Learning Approach to Coaching. in Sober & Grant, Evidence-based Coaching Handbook.} {Leary-Joyce & Wildflower, 2011. Theories of Adult Learning. In Wildflower…
Personalizing Positive Psychological Change Interventions
{Ciarrochi, Hayes, Oades, & Hofman, 2022. Toward a Unified Framework for Positive Psychology Interventions: Evidence-Based Processes of Change in Coaching, Prevention, and Retaining. Frontiers in…
Positive Psychology Coaching: An Introduction to Approaches, Concepts, and Practices
Positive psychology coaching (PPC) Research Domains Positive psychology coaching interventions (PPCIs) are guided by four broad research domains: (a) The constructs introduced by positive psychology:…
An Integrative Contextual Coaching Practice and the freshpractice Framework
Introductory This is a short treatise to clarify the structure of my practice, its components and how they relate to each other, the specific dynamic…
My view on positive psychological coaching
What is the aim of positive psychology-informed coaching practice? Positive psychology is a new science for the benefit of the public, providing theories, assessments, and…
List of positive psychological coaching tools and techniques
Phase 1 Creating the Relationship (Techniques of) Building relationships and establishing rapport. Tools employed to develop a psychological contract between all stakeholders within the coaching…
Positive psychological coaching tools and techniques
{Richter, van Zyl, Roll, & Stander, 2021. Positive Psychological Coaching Tools and Techniques: A Systematic Review and Classification. Front. Psychiatry 12:667200} {van Zyl, Roll, Stander,…
Protocols for Self-Concordant Goal Striving
Longitudinal research findings are that (1) Goal self-concordance predicts goal attainment, mediated by sustained effort; (2) Time-sampled goal attainment predicts changes in wellbeing, and the…
Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model
{Sheldon & Elliot, 1999. Goal Striving, Need Satisfaction, and Longitudinal Well-Being: The Self-Concordance Model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 76, No. 3} The…
Organizational Effectiveness
Three Approaches to Measuring Organizational Effectiveness (1) External Resource Approach Inputs: personnel, capital, raw materials, resources Evaluate the organization’s ability to secure, manage, and control…
The Structure of a Positive Psychology Coaching Session
A session moves through these phases: Establishing trust using positive regard, empathy, active constructive responding, emotional contagion, and motivational interviewing. Building the foundation for the…
Positive Tips and Techniques
Guidelines for the positive coach Tune in Tuning in helps the coach to spot and work with each client’s uniqueness, keeping an open mind and…