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One leader ’s reflections on a trusted leadership advisor: A personal commentary.
Comments on the article “From here to certainty: Becoming CEO and how a trusted leadership advisor (TLA) helped the client get there” by Karol Wasylyshyn. The author, a physician, talks about how the case study in the article resonates with his own work with Dr. Wasylyshyn, which started as an executive-coaching relati onship but over time transitioned into her becoming his TLA, taking him from academic medicine, to being an executive in a pharmaceutical company, to being an effective senior leader, to being an executive coach and TLA himself. And he describes how her use of four role dimensions and model agility helpe...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marks, G. Lynn Source Type: research

From here to certainty: Becoming CEO and how a trusted leadership advisor (TLA) helped the client get there.
An in-depth case study is used to illustrate the transition senior consultants can make from the role of executive coach to a role conceptualized by the author as trusted leadership advisor (TLA) in long-term engagements with senior business executives. In this engagement, spanning several years, the client ultimately became CEO of a global entity. Factors addressed in the case include the client ’s development issues, his progress, and the challenge of his simultaneously making developmental progress while managing a difficult boss and understanding how the company culture in some ways exacerbated his leadership issues....
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wasylyshyn, Karol M. Source Type: research

Executive coaching: New framework for evaluation.
This study describes our experience in facing these program-evaluation challenges while conducting a randomized, quasi-experimental investigation to explore effects of a developmental coaching intervention provided to senior leaders from different organizations within 1 large integrated health-care system. In the context of these challenges, we propose a conceptually new framework to the field of coaching research based on the assimilation model, an empirically grounded theory that originates within psychotherapy research and describes how people overcome issues they find problematic or challenging, whether in clinical or ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Commentary on Ackley (2016): Updates on the ESCI as the behavioral level of emotional intelligence.
In his review of the literature on models and measures of emotional intelligence (EI), Ackley (2016) did not include enhancements to the Emotional Competency Inventory (ECI) since 2006, when it was revised and renamed the Emotional and Social Competency Inventory (ESCI). In 2006, the test was substantially revised and improved. The ESCI reflects that the instrument measured not just the intrapersonal recognition and management of one ’s own emotions but also how they influence interpersonal interactions with other people, the recognition and management of others’ emotions. Both the Other version (completed by informant...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Boyatzis, Richard E. Source Type: research

What research on learning transfer can teach about improving the impact of leadership-development initiatives.
This article provides a brief practical review of the literature on learning transfer and the conditions that make it possible for people to apply in the workplace what they learn from a development initiative. This is followed by a report on an initial study of how managers in the Danish public sector perceive their organizations in terms of 9 key transfer conditions identified in the review. The article closes with a discussion of the implications of the review and study for current practice and for future research, with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the ways learning-transfer conditions affect the learni...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - November 16, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: S ørensen, Peter Source Type: research

Emotional intelligence: A practical review of models, measures, and applications.
This article is focused on common practical questions about applying EQ in consulting psychology. First, it examines 3 of the most widely accepted models of EQ and compares and contrasts them. Next, it describes and evaluates the assessment tools used to measure each model. Finally, the article presents sample applications of EQ assessment in executive coaching and team development to demonstrate both the utility of EQ and ways to go about applying it in practice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 21, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ackley, Dana Source Type: research

Evaluating fit in employee selection: Beliefs about how, when, and why.
Research strongly supports the use of standardized assessment methods, like structured interviews, to evaluate applicants. Many practitioners, however, continue to prefer unstructured and intuition-based approaches to employee selection. Nonstandardized assessment methods compromise the reliability and predictive validity of employee-selection systems and expose the hiring process to the idiosyncratic beliefs and biases of decision makers. To better understand practitioners ’ beliefs about decision making for employee selection, this study examines (a) the effects of standardization on the perceived usefulness of assessm...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nolan, Kevin P.; Langhammer, Kristina; Salter, Nicholas P. Source Type: research

Executive coaching: The age factor.
Lifespan psychology suggests that executives in their 30s, 40s, and 50s represent different maturational levels and professional experience. To date, research has not explored the relationship between the age of an executive and the coaching process or coaching outcomes. We hypothesized that executives in these age ranges would respond differently to the executive-coaching engagement. We analyzed 72 executive-coaching engagements to evaluate the relationship of age to 4 variables: Responsiveness, Self-reflection, Nondefensiveness, and Degree of Change. Results indicate that the age group 30 to 39 was significantly lower on...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tamir, Lois M.; Finfer, Laura A. Source Type: research

“I am going to succeed”: The power of self-efficient language in coaching and how coaches can use it.
Despite growing research on coaching and its positive impact on clients ’ self-efficacy and goal-attainment, to date, there is hardly any empirically based knowledge on which communicative strategies cause these improvements. To address this research gap and examine the role of clients’ self-efficient statements for coaching success, coach and client behavior was in vestigated. For each of 31 coaching dyads, 3 coaching sessions (first, middle, and last session) were videotaped. By using clients’ self-efficient statements as spontaneous indicators for self-efficacy during the coaching, the link to coaching success was...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - July 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gessnitzer, Sina; Schulte, Eva-Maria; Kauffeld, Simone Source Type: research

An organizational-development approach to implementing mentoring partnerships: Best practices from physician programs.
Building upon the mentoring literature, the present article shares an organizational-development (OD) approach to design, implement, institutionalize, and evaluate a successful formal mentoring program. Best practices are shared from the facilitation of programs with physicians in 5 different medical centers including 27 rollouts over 10 years. The authors worked with a representative committee within each department to assess mentoring needs and customize a program for stakeholders. A structured matching process and interest forms were used to pair mentees and mentors. Programs included mentor and mentee workshops, partne...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - July 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Giancola, Jennifer K.; Heaney, M. Susan; Metzger, Andrew J.; Whitman, Barbara Source Type: research

Can successful sales people become successful managers? Differences in motives and derailers across two jobs.
This study, with 2 samples to test for cross-validation, examined how dark-side traits (derailers) and work values (motives) are related to occupational potential in sales and managerial jobs. The central question for many is how, when, or, indeed, whether to promote successful sales people to managerial jobs. In total, 3,581 adult Britons taking part in 2 separate assessment centers completed 3 validated questionnaires: The first measured the behavioral tendency of an individual when one is exposed to stress that could derail one ’s career (HDS, Hogan Development Survey); the second measured the values and preferences t...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 1, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Furnham, Adrian; Humphries, Chris; Leung Zheng, Edward Source Type: research

The development of human expertise: Toward a model for the 21st-century practice of coaching, consulting, and general applied psychology.
In this article, executive or leadership coaching is considered within a broad context of the history of general applied psychology. Executive coaching is briefly explored in its major applications. Advocacy of the randomized controlled trials approach to advance the science base of the field is questioned. The current scientific and conceptual foundations of the understanding of the development of human expertise are advocated in a well-supported, empirically grounded framework within which a 21st-century practice of general applied psychology and executive coaching could flourish. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kilburg, Richard R. Source Type: research

Model agility: Coaching effectiveness and four perspectives on a case study.
The effectiveness of coaching can be enhanced if coaches are familiar with multiple psychological models, can hold these in mind simultaneously, and are able to apply them as appropriate to their clients—a capacity we refer to as model agility. To illustrate this capacity we first explore some of its ramifications and parallels to the challenges of leaders as well as leadership coaches. Then, using 4 well-known psychological models (cognitive behavioral, psychoanalytic, positive psychology, and adult development), we present an annotated transcript of a coaching session to show how agility translates into different quest...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kauffman, Carol; Hodgetts, William H. Source Type: research

The self of the coach: Conceptualization, issues, and opportunities for practitioner development.
This article offers a conceptual and developmental proposition based on the centrality of the practitioner’s self in the achievement of coaching outcomes. The central role of the self of the coach is established through a theoretical comparison with a competency (knowledge and skills) frame. Positioning the self in this way acknowledges the complexity and unpredictability of the coaching process and aligns with a complex-adaptive-system perspective on coaching. In turn, it provides a platform for a professional-practice view of the self as the main instrument of coaching and, further, a developmental proposition for the ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bachkirova, Tatiana Source Type: research

A practice analysis of coaching psychology: Toward a foundational competency model.
This article presents results of an initial, empirically based professional-practice analysis (i.e., “job analysis”) of executive/professional development coaching by psychologists. This project was initiated in 2012 by the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in a collaborative effort to (a) begin to systematically investigate and identify the domain of knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal characteristics (KSAPs; i.e., “competencies”) important for coaching by psychologists, and (b) develop a foundational competency model. The study had tw...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vandaveer, Vicki V.; Lowman, Rodney L.; Pearlman, Kenneth; Brannick, Joan P. Source Type: research