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The Practice of Positive Psychology for Thriving and Wellbeing in Community Your Personal (Thriving & Wellbeing) Knowledge Mastery Portal How do you thrive during challenging…
Category Positive Living
Coaching and Leadership Development
Introduction Hierarchically positioned managers benefit from conversations with someone who can challenge their thinking, provide genuine feedback, and offer diverse perspectives. Senior leaders are often…
Designing and Implementing Leader as Coach Programs
{Grant & Hartley, 2013. Developing the leader as coach: insights, strategies and tips for embedding coaching skills in the workplace. Coaching: An International Journal of…
Designing Positive Workplaces
Designing Positive Workplaces: Job Engagement, Work-Related Wellbeing, and Work Performance Workplace coaching Workplace coaching is concerned with attaining work-related goals in terms of skills, performance,…
Foundations of Positive Organizations
Principles for Designing Positive Workplaces {Cameron, Dutton, & Quinn (Eds.), 2003. Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline A possible subtitle: The positive dynamics…
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…
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…
Investing and Developing Positive Capacities
{Luthans, Youssef, & Avolio, 2007. Psychological Capital: Investing and Developing Positive Organizational Behavior. In Nelson & Cooper (Eds.), Positive Organizational Behavior.} Focusing on the elements…