Job Engagement and its Effect on Job Performance
{Rich, Lepine, & Crawford, 2010. Job Engagement: Antecedents and Effects on Job Performance. Academy of Management Journal Vol. 53, No. 3} Explaining performance Performance has…
Individual Work Performance
{Koopmans et al., 2013. Development of an individual work performance questionnaire. International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management Vol. 62 No.1} Introduction Individual work performance…
Organizational Commitment
Introduction An organization’s prevailing culture affects important outcomes such as commitment and performance. For example, support and innovation culture dimensions lead to high organizational commitment.…
Job Satisfaction: Crafting the Perfect Job
Job Satisfaction: Crafting the Perfect Job {Biswas-Diener & Dean, 2007. Positive Psychology Coaching: Putting the Science of Happiness to Work for Your Clients.} Jobs fill…
Designing and Evaluating Positive Psychology Interventions at Work
Designing Positive Interventions {Donaldson, Chen, & Donaldson, 2021. Designing Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions. In Donaldson & Chen, (Ed.) Positive Organizational Psychology Interventions: Design and Evaluation.…
Building Blocks of Positive Functioning at Work
{Donaldson, van Zyl, & Donaldson, 2022. PERMA +4: A Framework for Work-Related Wellbeing, Performance, and Positive Organizational Psychology 2.0. Front. Psychol. 12:817244} Introduction Positive emotions,…
Positive Interventions at Work
Building Positive Organizations {van Woerkom, 2021. Building Positive Organizations: A Typology of Positive Psychology Interventions. Front. Psychol. 12:769782.} Introduction Different types of positive psychology interventions…
Positive Psychology Coaching for Positive Leadership
The Task of Leadership The leader’s tasks are many; to make sense of a vast array of information, engage in new forms of relationships, achieve…
Strength-Based Leadership Coaching
{MacKie, 2016. Strength-based Leadership Coaching in Organizations.} Key components of coaching for positive leadership development in organizations Before beginning any leadership development process, assess the…
Defining Positive Leadership
{Malinga, Stander, & Nell, 2019. Positive Leadership: Moving Towards an Integrated Definition and Interventions. In Van Zyl & Rothmann (eds.), Theoretical Approaches to Multi-Cultural Positive…
Pursuing Effective Leadership: The Developing Leader
What does it take to be an effective leader? What mediates leadership effectiveness in a particular context? Are there universally effective practices? How do people…
Being Mindful of Emotion
{Harrison, 2017. The Foundations of Mindfulness: How to Cultivate Attention, Good Judgment, and Tranquility} Emotion at the Atomic Level: Valence and Action Tendencies “How does…
A Guide to Increase Positive Emotion: The Pleasant Life
Satisfaction with the Past, Optimism about the Future, Happiness in the Present Positive psychology coaching (PPC) is concerned with building the states that make life…
Happiness: The Goal We Rarely Talk About
The Idea in 100 Words (or less). People are motivated to initiate change when they face problems. Still, what they seek are happiness and fulfillment.…
Emotions, Moods, Sentiments, Passions
Emotional feelings arise when a person-situation or person-interaction is relevant to one’s wellbeing. The person processes the encounter consciously or unconsciously, which produces a perception…
Limits and Possibilities of a Person-Centered Approach
{Bachkirova & Borrington, 2018, The Limits and Possibilities of a Person-Centred Approach In Coaching Through the Lens of Adult Development Theories. Philosophy of Coaching: An…
A Strengths-Based Goal-Focused Operating System
A sustainable, intentional human system needs some enduring yet adapting and transforming core elements. Adapting, since the environment is continually changing; transforming, since a living…
The Humanistic Guide to Coaching
Use these Guiding principles in applying the humanistic approach to coaching to provide a framework for the coaching context and associated tasks for the coach.…
Key Concepts from Humanistic Approaches
Originally developed for therapists’ use in psychotherapy, these concepts are easily extrapolated for relationships such as coaching and translated into coaching practice. Growth-Oriented View of…
Introduction to the Humanistic Perspective
What is coaching about? Coaching is about human growth and change. It has its roots in traditions and disciplines that strive to support growth. The…
Coaching from the Humanistic Perspective
The Humanistic Approach to Facilitating Growth: A Guide for Educators, Coaches, Facilitators, Leaders, and Parents References Bachkirova & Borrington, 2018, The Limits and Possibilities…
Exploring the strength of Fairness
How are you expressing your strength of fairness at work, at home, and community? What circumstances make it easier or harder for you to compromise…
Exploring the strength of Love of Learning
What are areas of learning most interesting to you? What areas of learning are least interesting to you? What do you love about learning? What…
Exploring the strength of Honesty
Consider your personal and professional relationships; how do you make and honor your commitments and agreements? How easy can you take responsibility for mistakes when…