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…
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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…
Goal-Setting in 20 minutes or less: The Script
Resource link: Workbook One: Goal-setting in 20 minutes or less Welcome to your first iteration of the goal-setting exercise. In the next 20 minutes, you…
Workbook Three: Goal-Setting Session Two
Summary Personal goal: Professional goal: Social goal: Personal milestone: Professional milestone: Social milestone: Accountability partner: Celebrations plan: Commitments: Weekly meeting: Monthly meeting: Daily ritual: Monitoring…
Workbook Two: Goal-Setting Workshop as Part of SBDP
The Strengths-Based Positive Growth Project: “Goal-Setting and Positive Capacity Building” Workbook Preliminary and related inquiries: Strengths, Interests, Values A goal is a vision for the…
Workbook One: Goal-setting in 20 minutes or less
Three long-term goal statements; clear, concise with target dates Based on my inspirations from the “Best Possible Self” Visualization, I intend to achieve the following…
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,…
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…
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…
The Positive Coach: Being, Knowing, Doing, and Lifelong Developing
Mindset The coach’s best performance is based on their mind frame when using the coaching skills, knowledge, and tools, bracketing their other specialist knowledge and…
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…