Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations

An Evidence-Based Guide to Positive Leadership Development

Doug MacKie

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780749474430
• eBook ISBN: 9780749474447
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Positive organizational psychology, with its focus on the identification and development of strengths, is a natural ally to executive development and leadership coaching. However, this approach is only just beginning to come to the attention of organizations and consequently, the research base for strength-based coaching is in its early stages of development. Strength-based Leadership Coaching in Organizations reviews strength-based approaches to positive leadership development and evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness and considers how strengths can be reliably assessed and developed in their organizational context.

Strength-based Leadership Coaching in Organizations reviews key areas of leader and team development and describes a model of strengths development in organizations. It discusses the application of strength-based leadership coaching from the managerial and external perspective within the context of career stage, seniority, role challenges and organizational need in order to facilitate meaningful change. Finally, it covers the limitations of the strength-based approach to leadership development together with the challenges of integrating positive leadership development. It shows exactly what a strengths focus is and that there is increasing evidence that this approach does get results. Where other books focus on one model of identifying strengths, this book offers a balanced and critical examination, showing how to apply a positive strength-based approach.

INDEX

Note: The index is filed in alphabetical, word-by-word order. Acronyms are filed as presented and numbers within headings, as spelt out. Headings in italics denote a document. Page locators in italics denote information contained within a Figure or Table and those as roman numerals denote information within the Preface.

ABN Amro 182

affinity bias 147

ALD 112

alignment

strategic goal 126–28

strength 105

ALQ 51, 72–73

ambiguity 107, 185, 193

applied psychology 4, 11, 13, 37, 75, 124

appreciative inquiry (AI) 30, 74

assertiveness 34, 185

assessment 59–78, 69, 89, 167–69, 191

see also self-report (assessment) data

attributes, idealized influence 47, 48–49, 70

attributional error see fundamental attribution error

authentic leadership 7, 13, 14, 15, 50–52, 184, 194

development (ALD) 112

questionnaire (ALQ) 72–73

autonomy 154, 187

avoidant leadership 46, 70, 73

awareness

self 8, 59–60, 61, 105, 112

situational 178

behaviours

idealized influence 47, 48–49, 70

leadership behaviour 10–11, 42–43, 62

POB 5, 6, 7, 13–14

proactive 35

beliefs 31, 42, 45, 146, 189

best practice 193–95

between-subject studies 80–81, 84, 85, 90–91, 194

bias 61, 81, 89, 146–47

negativity 9, 151

and self-reporting 68, 69, 82, 91, 122

Big 5 personality model 7, 27, 29, 30, 65

boundary management 145

broaden-and-build thesis 48, 142, 151

capacity-based models 28–29

career discussions 152

case studi...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Contents
• preface
• Acknowledgements
• 01 An introduction to strength-based approaches in organizations
• 02 Strengths: definitions and models
• 03 Positive leadership theories
• 04 Strengths identification and assessment
• 05 Evidence for the effectiveness of positive approaches to leadership development
• 06 Strengths development
• 07 Coaching for positive leadership development in organizations
• 08 Using strength-based approaches as a leader or manager
• 09 Using strength-based approaches for team development
• 10 The context and limits of strength-based leadership coaching
• Index
• Copyright