Key points Coach-client trust, coaching motivation, and client self-efficacy are most consistently linked with workplace coaching success in current empirical research on coaching. The influence of feedback, coach-client similarity, and supervisor support is less clear. In addition to external research, people designing workplace coaching programs may want to look to organizational sources of evidence to
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Key Points There may be no single recipe for getting fairness “right” during an organizational change. However, research on fairness offers some compelling ideas to consider. You can integrate fairness into your change approach in various ways — the results or outcomes, the process you use to make decisions, how people are treated, and the
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Bad leadership affects 10%-16% of US employees. This comes to an annual cost of close to $24 billion. If you haven’t considered how the “dark side” of leadership may be affecting your employees and your organization, now might be the time to give it some thought!
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Psychological safety recently came storming into the mainstream when research by Google on high-performing teams hit the news. This Evidence Summary highlights the findings from 117 studies representing over 22,000 individuals and nearly 5,000 groups!
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What do New Year’s Day, the start of the fiscal year, and the kick-off of a political campaign have in common? The unveiling of big goals and ambitions, often with great fanfare! It’s exciting to set bold goals and envision a better future. But as we all know, setting goals and achieving them are two different things.
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How many teams are you part of right now? Probably at least one, maybe quite a few. How much time do you spend thinking about and working to build trust on the team(s)? If the answer is “not much,” new research may convince you that trust is worth more of your attention.
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