Establishing rapport during online coaching
{Van Coller-Peter & Manzini, 2020. Strategies to establish rapport during online management coaching. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(0), a1298.} Introduction Building rapport is…
Category approach
The Psychological Contract
{Solomon & Van Coller-Peters, 2019. How coaching aligns the psychological contract between the young millennial professional and the organization. SA Journal of Human Resource Management,…
Common Elements for All Communications
{Campbell, 2009. Communications Skills for Project Managers.} Three steps you must consider when you prepare any important communication. Analyze the target, 2. Plan the approach,…
Building Early Relationships With Clients
The relationship quality between coach and client is a more important determinant of positive outcomes than any other variable under the coach’s control. Creating and…
Coach Competencies for an Integrated Learning Approach
Who is the client? The coaching contract clarifies who the client is, the other relevant stakeholders, and the sponsor. For one-to-one executive coaching, the client…
Asking Permission
{Carol Wilson. Permission Protocol. www.coachingcultureatwork.com} {Wilson, 2020. Performance Coaching.} Asking for permission is an essential skill that makes a difference in building and maintaining relationships.…
Development and the Ideal Self
{Boyatzis, 2008. Leadership development from a complexity perspective. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research 2008, Vol. 60, No. 4} Multilevel sustained change Leader development involves…
Presence, Intention, and Affordances
{Triberti & Riva, 2016. Being Present in Action: A Theoretical Model About the “Interlocking” Between Intentions and Environmental Affordances. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:2052} Introduction The…
Stages of Change: A Temporal Map for Coaching Interventions
Working from the Trans Theoretical Model {Theeboom, Van Vianen, & Beersma, 2017. A Temporal Map of Coaching. Front. Psychol. 8:1352.} Coach Tasks and Client Skills…
Motivational Interviewing Skills
{Matulich, 2010. How To Do Motivational Interviewing: A Guidebook for Beginners} We apply MI skills to evoke change talk. Attitude. The MI Spirit is an…
Motivation and Emotion
These are some definitions and descriptions which I consider significant. I state these as if I understood the significance and as if I accept them…
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,…
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…