Vision-based coaching: optimizing resources for leader development

Frontiers in Psychology

Angela M. Passarelli¹ 

关键词: vision;    leadership;    executive coaching;    positive emotions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00412

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Leaders develop in the direction of their dreams, not in the direction of their deficits. Yet many coaching interactions intended to promote a leader’s development fail to leverage the benefits of the individual’s personal vision. Drawing on intentional change theory, this article postulates that coaching interactions that emphasize a leader’s personal vision (future aspirations and core identity) evoke a psychophysiological state characterized by positive emotions, cognitive openness, and optimal neurobiological functioning for complex goal pursuit. Vision-based coaching, via this psychophysiological state, generates a host of relational and motivational resources critical to the developmental process. These resources include: formation of a positive coaching relationship, expansion of the leader’s identity, increased vitality, activation of learning goals, and a promotion–orientation. Organizational outcomes as well as limitations to vision-based coaching are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY