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.…
Category approach
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…
An Integrative Goal-Focused Approach to Executive Coaching
{Grant, 2006. In Stober & Grant (Eds.) Evidence-Based Coaching Handbook.} Coaching is about helping individuals regulate and direct their interpersonal and intrapersonal resources to attain…
Objective Setting and Impact Evaluation Framework
(Ogbeiwi, 2017. Why written objectives need to be really SMART. BJHCM, 2017 Vol 23 No 7.) Well-formulated goals are fundamental to planning effective results-oriented action…
Goal Power
{Driver, 2011. Coaching Positively.} Introduction Setting useful goals brings out your client’s best performance. Goals keep the coaching conversation focused, ensuring it has a sense…
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…
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…
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…
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.…