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What can Sydney tell us about coaching? Research with implications for practice from down under.
This paper details material from 2 presentations given at the 2015 Society of Consulting Psychology Mid-Winter Conference in San Diego, California, which presented a summary of the coaching research conducted at the Coaching Psychology Unit (CPU) at the University of Sydney. The CPU was established in 1999 with a mission to enhance the performance, productivity, and quality of life of individuals, organizations, and the broader community through excellence in education, research, and the practice of coaching psychology. Drawing on over 150 CPU publications—including 8 randomized, controlled, outcome studies; 9 between-su...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grant, Anthony M. Source Type: research

International perspectives on becoming a master coaching psychologist.
As part of a collaborative effort between the Society of Consulting Psychology (SCP) and the International Society for Coaching Psychology (ISCP) to gain a better understanding of the place of psychology in the field of coaching and what is required for effectiveness in coaching psychology, this issue of Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research is devoted to “International Perspectives on Becoming a Master Coaching Psychologist.” The issue features articles based on selected presentations made at the International Congress on Coaching Psychology (ICCP) held in San Diego, California, in February 2015. The ar...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vandaveer, Vicki V.; Palmer, Stephen Source Type: research

A large-scale study of executive and workplace coaching: The relative contributions of relationship, personality match, and self-efficacy.
This large-scale study of executive coaching explores the perceived effectiveness of coaching from the perspectives of coach, coachee, and sponsor, and potential active ingredients including the coach –coachee working alliance, coachee self-efficacy, personality, and “personality match” between coach and coachee. Using a retrospective design, data was collected from 1,895 client–coach pairs (366 different coaches) from 34 countries, and 92 sponsors, for a total of 3,882 matching surveys. Results indicate that coachee perceptions of coaching effectiveness (CE) were significantly related to both coach- and coachee-ra...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: de Haan, Erik; Grant, Anthony M.; Burger, Yvonne; Eriksson, Per-Olof Source Type: research

Gender bias and substantive differences in ratings of leadership behavior: Toward a new narrative.
Women make up about half of the U.S. workforce but fewer than 15% of corporate officers and 5% of CEOs. Much popular discussion about this disparity focuses on unconscious bias against women in leadership roles. The current study analyzed the presence of gender bias as distinct from substantive gender differences in ratings of the leadership behavior of a matched sample of 857 women and 857 men from upper-levels of management in 6 companies, representing 5 industries, based in the United States, Western Europe, and Australia. The results found virtually no evidence of bias against women leaders and some evidence of bias in...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - February 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kaiser, Robert B.; Wallace, Wanda T. Source Type: research

Making way for paradigms of diversity leadership.
To gain a better understanding of the new leadership challenges that diversity is bringing to organizations, the American Psychological Association provided an Interdivisional Grant to conduct a 1-day Leadership Diversity Summit (LDS). In January 2013, 15 leaders who were diverse across dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation came together to discuss the following questions: (a) How do you view leadership? (b) How is your exercise of leadership influenced by the context in which you lead, the multiple dimensions of your identity, and your lived experiences associated with culture and minority status? ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - February 29, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Chin, Jean Lau; Desormeaux, Lyne; Sawyer, Katina Source Type: research

A comprehensive and integrated framework for developing leadership teams.
This article presents a practical and research-based framework that consultants can use to promote systematic action in response to the complex challenges of developing leadership teams. The leadership-team development framework (LTDF) has 3 parts (a qualifying phase to determine whether a team-development intervention is necessary; an intervention phase comprised of the activities of establishing structures and processes, improving team dynamics, and coaching in real time; and an evaluation phase to see whether the intervention was successful in improving team effectiveness); it is carried out with a 5-step implementation...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - January 25, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Overfield, Darren V. Source Type: research

It’s all in how you use it: Managers’ use of meetings to reduce employee intentions to quit.
In this study, we examined the positive side of meetings, specifically, how the relationship a manager fosters with subordinates in meetings affects those employees’ intentions to quit (ITQ). Using an online survey of working adults who regularly attended meetings, we found that the relation between perceived organizational support (POS) and leader–member exchange (LMX) quality in meetings on ITQ depended on an employee’s level of negative affectivity (NA). When POS or LMX in meetings was low or average, high-NA employees held significantly higher ITQ than low-NA employees. However, when POS or LMX in meetings was hi...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mroz, Joseph E.; Allen, Joseph A. Source Type: research

School consultation practices in the early career: Does training matter?
Consultation is considered a pivotal skill for professional psychologists, including those practicing in educational settings (i.e., school psychologists). It is generally assumed that the development of consulting competence occurs through effective consultation training. However, limited research supports this claim. Via a national survey of 262 early career school psychologists, this study investigated the link between school psychologists’ consultation training at the preservice level, and the enactment of the consultant role in schools during the early career. Participants’ reported experiences in consultation tra...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Newman, Daniel S.; Barrett, Courtenay A.; Hazel, Cynthia E. Source Type: research

Identity construction in coaching: Schemas, information processing, and goal commitment.
Leadership coaching is a nearly $2 billion per year industry (International Coach Federation, 2012), and although many different theories and approaches to coaching exist, relatively little is known about the differential effectiveness of various coaching approaches. Grounded in theories germane to but that transcend coaching (e.g., social identity, information processing), this study explores the ways in which several factors influence a very proximal outcome of coaching—commitment to set goals. It was hypothesized that coaches can intentionally help their coachees attain a more helpful coaching schema; additionally, it...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Coultas, Chris W.; Salas, Eduardo Source Type: research

The trusted leadership advisor: Another view from the bridge between business and psychology.
With this conceptualization of the trusted leadership advisor (TLA), a senior practitioner provides an in-depth view of the role transition from executive coach in short-term engagements to the TLA in long-term consulting relationships with corporate level and other senior business leaders. Emphasis is placed on the integration of business knowledge with an insight-oriented approach, and the nature of the TLA’s presence as the core factor in the success and perpetuation of these relationships. Three specific albeit discontinuous states of presence are offered as a mental framework for informing how the practitioner “me...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wasylyshyn, Karol M. Source Type: research

The wisdom of Karol M. Wasylyshyn: An introduction to the trusted leadership advisor.
It is an honor and a privilege to publish Karol M. Wasylyshyn’s article, “The Trusted Leadership Advisor: Another View from the Bridge between Business and Psychology.” As a Fellow of the Society of Consulting Psychology, Karol is certainly a distinguished member of the profession. She is also a pioneer of executive coaching who has helped to shape the discipline through her plethora of articles and books and professional presentations that serve as a travelogue to her vast experience advising senior leaders. At my request, Karol’s Wisdom Paper begins with a bit of autobiographical history to help you appreciate th...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - December 14, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kaiser, Robert B. Source Type: research

Developing a new measure of entrepreneurial mindset: Reliability, validity, and implications for practitioners.
This article describes the development of a new measure of entrepreneurial mindset—the Entrepreneurial Mindset Profile (EMP)—which seeks to measure them in a more comprehensive way. In a series of 3 studies, we describe the development of the instrument and provide evidence for its psychometric adequacy and construct validity. As expected, entrepreneurs and corporate managers differed significantly from one another on each of the EMP’s 14 scales. Relationships between the EMP scales and measures of the Five Factor Model patterned largely as expected, with Openness to Experience displaying the broadest and strongest a...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - October 19, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Davis, Mark H.; Hall, Jennifer A.; Mayer, Pamela S. Source Type: research

Exploring the relationships among personality, values, and business intelligence.
The current study explored the relationships among measures of “bright side” and “dark side” personality traits, personal values, and business intelligence. Participants were 194 senior managers from a global technology company. Structural equation modeling revealed that personal values mediate the relationships among bright- and dark-side personality traits and business intelligence, accounting for 30% of the variance. Business intelligence was best predicted by scientific thinking styles, the pursuit of intellectually stimulating activities, and having little interest in artistic endeavors. Implications for theor...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Akhtar, Reece; Humphreys, Chris; Furnham, Adrian Source Type: research

A closer look at the psychological diversity within Holland interest types: Construct validation of the Career Insight Questionnaire.
The past years have been witness to a renewed attention for vocational interests in both theory and practice. In this context the present research aims to illustrate the relevance of finer-grained interest information next to more general information at the domain level. A recently developed and Holland-based interest instrument is presented and validated; it measures 15 interest components in addition to the more familiar Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional (RIASEC) domains. We provide evidence for (a) the hierarchical structure of specific interest components under broader interest ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wille, Bart; De Fruyt, Filip; Dingemanse, Sjoerd A.; Vergauwe, Jasmine Source Type: research

Executive coaching: Does coach-coachee matching based on similarity really matter?
Although executive coaching has become increasingly popular in the corporate world for the last 2 decades, there have been few empirical studies on how the match between coach and coachee affects the coaching relationship. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of gender similarity and perceived similarity on executive-coaching effectiveness, as reflected in the improvement in attitudinal and behavioral outcomes (i.e., self-awareness, career satisfaction, organizational commitment, and supervisor-rated task performance). Study participants (68 coach-coachee dyads) were drawn from the clients of 4 Israel-based...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 24, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bozer, Gil; Joo, Baek-Kyoo; Santora, Joseph C. Source Type: research