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Leading in an unprecedented global crisis: The heightened importance of versatility.
Recent discussions of organizational performance have emphasized growing complexity and an accelerating pace of change and have called for new models of leadership for managing the paradoxes and dilemmas that they pose. The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic amplified these dynamics and created an opportunity to examine one of the newer models by comparing the effects of versatile leadership in precrisis and crisis conditions in a field study using a quasi-experimental design with matched samples. The results indicated strong positive relationships between versatile leadership and multiple measures of effectiveness in both cond...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - August 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An examination of the effectiveness of a school-based behavioral consultation workshop.
Consultation has become increasingly important in the delivery of school-based mental-health services. However, there is a dearth of research about consultant training at the in-service level. Because consultation self-efficacy can predict a practitioner’s actual engagement in consultation practice, this study investigated the development of perceived self-efficacy in conducting behavioral consultation by 45 practicing school counselors who had participated in a 3-day training workshop in Taipei, Taiwan. Significant positive changes on pre- and post-tests were found in both process-oriented and problem-solving self-effic...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

New findings on the effectiveness of the coaching relationship: Time to think differently about active ingredients?
This article critically reviews two recent, large-scale, randomized controlled trials in executive coaching, to drive further exploration into the topic of the coaching relationship as a predictor of coaching outcome. One of the trials was designed at senior levels in an industrial setting and the other was an experiment with coaching in a business-school context. Each trial demonstrated considerable and significant coaching effectiveness with the coaching relationship (“working alliance”) as an important ingredient of effectiveness. The more recent randomized-controlled-trial sample, which was longitudinal, seems to s...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - June 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Open Science badges editorial for Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research.
The Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research (CPJ) is a practitioner–scientist journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA). A small number of APA journals have agreed to begin offering Open Science Framework (OSF) badges, and the author is pleased to announce that CPJ will be part of this program. Applying for OSF badges will be voluntary and optional for CPJ authors. There are many reasons why it may not be possible to share data or materials and resources or to register a study. However, the author hopes that many prospective CPJ authors will embrace the spirit to make their data, mate...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - May 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Empathy enhancing antidotes for interpersonally toxic leaders.
There is increasing evidence that toxic interpersonal leadership practices and behavior cause serious problems for employees, organizations, and society (Kraskikova, Green, & LeBreton, 2013; Schyns & Schilling, 2013). The empathy–altruism hypothesis (e.g., Batson & Oleson, 1991) suggests that an empathic response is a necessary component in human prosocial behaviors with important implications for both leaders and organizations today. Many studies support a link between empathy (empathetic distress, empathic concern, and perspective-taking) and prosocial engagement (Zak, 2018), as well as a significant association betwee...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Organizational climate for climate sustainability.
This study explored the extent to which individual motivation and organizational climate are related to PEB. The results suggest that both individual motivation (R² = .18 to .45) and organizational climate perceptions (R² = .07 to .49) are related to PEBs inside and outside of work. Furthermore, results indicated that organizational climate incrementally predicted PEB beyond individual motivation both at work (ΔR² = .13 to .17) and outside of work (ΔR² = .02 to .13). The findings suggest that organizations could have an important role in the human response to climate change. Practical implications for organizations, ...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - April 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Dialogical coaching: An experiential approach to personal and professional development.
Coaching practice is dominated by discussion. This is at odds with theories of cognition and adult learning, which emphasize experiential processes in stimulating beneficial changes in thought, feeling, and behavior. In this practice-focused article, we make the case for an integrative and experiential approach to coaching that is informed by dialogical self-theory (“dialogical coaching”). This is followed by a series of vignettes that illustrate the dialogical coaching process. Conceptually, dialogical coaching views the mind as being composed of dynamic parts (“I-positions”) that are capable of engaging in harmon...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - March 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Learning the language of consultation: Quantifying interactions over time.
Studies of school-based consultation communication interactions have typically examined only single sessions, providing a limited snapshot of interactions between consultants-in-training (CITs) and consultees. The present study is an evaluation of language used during ongoing consultation training relationships for 26 dyads (CITs and volunteer teachers), using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software. Working with a database of 116 session transcripts, group differences and trends over time were examined for pronoun use and the 4 LIWC summary variables of analytic thinking, clout, authenticity, and emotional tone,...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - February 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The anatomy of a longitudinal, embedded consulting and coaching engagement: Case study and conceptual issues.
This paper presents a case study of a longitudinal, embedded consulting and coaching engagement at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (the name of the client organization is used with permission throughout this paper), a top ranked U.S. academic health center, and provides an overview of a set of key conceptual issues involved in creating and delivering such services. These include the knowledge, abilities, skills, experiences/expertise, and personal characteristics of clients and consultants; moral reasoning and ethics; assuming the role of shadow CEO; and anchoring this case in the literature on consultation. (Psyc...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Winning the rodeo: How executive coaching helped an academic physician succeed in a senior-leadership role.
This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, entitled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching,” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The case study offers “a first-person account of the experience of being coached while independently leading a division of hematology and oncology at a highly ranked medical center” (Rathmell, Brown, & Kilburg. 2019, p. 141), and it includes analysis from the coach and the leader’s supervisor. The current commentary, by the...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Perspectives on the importance of leadership and the value of coaching in an academic medical research institution.
This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research titled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The case study documents the development of a physician scientist who takes on an important leadership role. Drawing on my background in leadership positions at 3 very different institutions of academic medical research, I discuss the tremendous importance of effective leadership to those institutions as well as the foundational role...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Put me in, coach: Reflections of one female physician turned academic leader on the transition of another.
This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, entitled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching,” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The current author reflects on how partnering with an executive coach has shaped her academic leadership journey, from vascular surgeon and scientist, to the first female chair of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, to her role as CEO of Wake Forest Baptist Health and dean of Wake Forest School of Medicine today. The author and Ra...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The case for executive coaching in academic medicine.
This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research titled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching,” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The case study offers “a first-person account of the experience of being coached while independently leading a division of hematology and oncology at a highly ranked medical center” and includes analysis from the coach and the leader’s supervisor, the chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center....
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Lessons learned from decades of leading academic health centers.
This article comments on an innovative case study in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research, entitled “Transformation to Academic Leadership: The Role of Mentorship and Executive Coaching,” by W. Kimryn Rathmell, Nancy J. Brown, and Richard R. Kilburg (see record 2019-52290-001). The case study offers “a first-person account of the experience of being coached while independently leading a division of hematology and oncology at a highly ranked medical center” (p. 141), and it includes analysis from the coach and the leader’s supervisor. The current commentary, by a member of the board of directors of...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Transformation to academic leadership: The role of mentorship and executive coaching.
The transition to academic leadership entails learning to utilize an enormous new collection of skills. Executive leadership coaching is a personalized training approach that is being increasingly used to accelerate the onboarding of effective leaders. Vanderbilt University Medical Center has invested in a robust coaching strategy that is offered broadly to institutional leaders. This case study details the early transformational learning of leadership skills by 1 new institutional leader in the first 2 years in an academic leadership role. It offers a first-person account of the experience of being coached while independe...
Source: Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research - September 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research