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Learning agility as a key driver of leadership potential for talent identification, pipeline development, and succession planning in organizations.
Learning agility is a core element of any successful talent-management (TM) system. Decades of research in both academic and applied domains have demonstrated the critical role that learning from experience plays in predicting both leader performance and potential. Although many organizations recognize the importance of learning agility and are using it for different TM-related purposes, several issues in the extant literature can make it difficult for practitioners to find the right emphasis or the most useful application for their respective organizations. The purpose of this article is to address some of these challenge...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Learning agility: Could it become the g-factor of leadership?
Although the conceptual roots of learning agility go back more than a half century, our understanding of the construct remains limited. The business world has embraced it as an important criterion for selecting leaders and identifying high-potential talent for many years, while the academic world has largely ignored or rejected learning agility as a viable psychological construct. For this article, I investigated why this is the case. I examined the extant leadership literature to understand more fully how learning agility emerged in the business setting, why different definitions and various measures of it developed over ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The science and application of learning agility: Introduction to the special issue.
This article introduces a special issue of the Consulting Psychology Journal focused on the science and application of learning agility. Although the construct of learning agility has been used by many organizations around the world as a means to identify and develop leadership talent during the past 2 decades, much about it remains unclear. For example, there are different viewpoints about its definition, its measurement, and even its importance to leader success. In this introductory article, the historical recognition of leadership in organizations is briefly explored, and the emergence of learning agility as a critical...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - October 13, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Equity-centered leadership training found to be both relevant and impactful by interprofessional teams of health-care clinicians: Recommendations for workforce-development efforts to update leadership training.
Consulting Psychology Journal, Vol 76(1), Mar 2024, 42-69; doi:10.1037/cpb0000239We investigated the impact of training interprofessional health-care teams in equity-centered leadership skills to address health inequity and the impacts of systemic racism and other types of bias. At the time of the study, of the 131 participants enrolled, 30.5% were mental-health professionals and 10% were psychologists. In this analysis we explored the immediate reactions and self-reported learning and ability gains of attendees of intensive training retreats that make up one aspect of our 3-year training intervention. Two cohorts had full...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - October 10, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

You cannot be what you cannot see: Supporting women’s leadership development in higher education.
The Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) at West Virginia University was introduced 10 years ago as a campus-wide effort to connect, empower, and provide leadership development for a small group of women leaders at the university. Over time, membership in the WLI has evolved to include women of all career stages and career paths who see themselves as leaders, those who aspire to be leaders, and those who exert influence within their units and the university structure. The WLI supports women through learning, networking, and mentoring opportunities. The purpose of this article is to describe how the initiative supports wom...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Supporting women leaders: Research-based directions for gender inclusion in organizations.
This article discusses the potential impact of these research results for women and men in organizations and offers ideas on the implications of these results for the practice of consulting psychology and for future research efforts. Recent meta-analytical studies and other research findings provide new perspectives in advancing gender inclusion in organizations that involve the evolution of gender stereotypes, the placement of women in tactical versus strategic jobs, bosses’ assessments of women’s derailment potential, and other research results. These combined efforts suggest that the time may be right for a new para...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Underrepresented and underleveraged: Developing the leadership potential of women of Asian descent.
This article provides an overview of a qualitative study on immigrant women leaders of Asian descent. Eight women holding leadership roles in Fortune 100 and multibillion-dollar companies were interviewed. With statistics provided to support the underrepresentation as well as the barriers and obstacles that impede the promotion of women of Asian descent into executive roles, this article reports on a qualitative study that explored the lived experiences of immigrant women of Asian descent who successfully navigated U.S. companies into senior leadership and executive levels. The findings from this study contribute to the un...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Latina leadership development: Lessons from the creation and facilitation of a game-based workshop.
This article explores unique aspects of Latina leadership development that emerged during the process of creating a facilitated Latina leadership game. El Rio de Dichos is a game-based workshop centered around the theme of dichos, common Spanish idioms, that allow players to explore cultural themes, differing Latina leader personas, and the notion of scarce resources in the context of organizational leadership. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Introduction to supporting women in leadership across industries and contexts.
This article serves as a summary for a special section of Consulting Psychology Journal: Research and Practice. The section focuses on the state of progress for initiatives supporting women in leadership across industries and contexts. It is part of a series of ongoing articles describing and evaluating diversity and inclusion initiatives within consulting psychology. Implications for addressing consulting-process issues, research gaps, and ongoing training needs are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 30, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Organizational-change capability: Validation of a practice-research measure.
Consulting Psychology Journal, Vol 75(4), Dec 2023, 391-415; doi:10.1037/cpb0000235For organizations to survive and thrive within the context of constant change, it is important they build and maintain an underlying change capability. The present article identifies 11 key dimensions of change capability that can enable organizations to thrive in the contemporary context of volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous organizational change. The 11 dimensions and the associated measurement instrument reflect the practical experience of applied-change practitioners and the experience of academics with applied-research interest...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

A multiperspectives approach to personality assessment.
This article describes the approach and how it can provide useful information above and beyond traditional self-report and other common methods for assessing personality. Specifically, we (a) review common approaches to personality assessment, (b) describe an MP approach for assessing personality, (c) show how this approach can provide additional and insightful information about an individual’s personality and related work behaviors, and (d) discuss implications and challenges for its use. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research)
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 23, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

How experienced coaches use mindfulness in practice and how they know it is useful or beneficial.
The research we report on here sought to explore the meaning of mindfulness for experienced coaching practitioners in a practice context. There are many formal definitions, but it is difficult to know how and which ones are used in practice and to what degree or effect. The purpose of the research was to obtain a clearer understanding of what mindfulness is from the practitioners’ perspective in terms of its available definitions and how it is used and is useful or beneficial in practice. The research used qualitative methodology, an interpretivist and constructivist approach, the in-depth interview method, and interpret...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Ready to start a business? Unraveling the motives for entrepreneurship.
This article reports what we learned in the study, examining the relationships between each of these profiles, the intention to start a business, and the probability of success of the project. It also examines gender differences. These variables were differentially related to the three profiles. Our findings shed light on this complex entrepreneurial intention, which is based on a subjective balance between various psychosocial factors that create positive and negative attitudes toward the present and future situation. We discuss the implications of our findings for vocational counseling and directions for future research....
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Management consulting effectiveness: Contribution of the working alliance and the consultant’s attachment orientation.
This article examines the associations among the client–consultant working alliance, the consultant’s attachment orientation, and consulting effectiveness from the consultant’s viewpoint. Self-report questionnaires were administered to 193 internal and external consultants in Canada. The hierarchical regression analyses suggested that the professional agreement dimension of the working alliance was the strongest predictor of consulting effectiveness as perceived by consultants, in terms of both process and outcomes. Additionally, the consultant’s attachment orientation, whether anxious or avoidant, moderated the as...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An integrative career self-management framework: The personal-brand ownership model.
This article proposes a career self-management framework for building and strengthening a personal brand as part of a broad career-development perspective. The aim is to provide a better understanding of the individual’s changing role in creating and maintaining a personal brand within the changing world of work. Suggested is a three-stage integrative model of personal-brand ownership. Stage 1 is perceptual, acquiring an “ownership” perception of the individual regarding their own career development. Stage 2 comprises the actual self-branding activities. Stage 3 involves measuring and evaluating the self-built person...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - January 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research