Strengths coaching with leaders

By P. Alex Linley, Linda Woolston, R. Biswas-Diener. International Coaching Psychology Review, 2009

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Positive psychology and coaching psychology share a number of common themes and fundamental assumptions. Blending positive psychology, strengths approaches and coaching psychology, our work in strengths coaching with leaders enhances both leadership and organisational capability. In this article, we explore the role of leaders as climate engineers and provide a brief history of strengths approaches, together with definitions of what we mean by strengths and strengths coaching, and how we use these in practice. We introduce the integrative Realise2 model of strengths and weaknesses which distinguishes between the six areas of realised strengths, unrealised strengths, regular learned behaviours, infrequent learned behaviours, exposed weaknesses, and unexposed weaknesses, before going on to demonstrate how leaders can make weaknesses irrelevant through role shaping, complementary partnering, strengths-based team-working or personal development. We examine the golden mean of strengths use, looking at strengths both overplayed and underplayed, before concluding with a view on the benefits of strengths coaching for both leadership and organisational capability. The Appendix provides 10 summary points in a strengths coaching checklist for leaders.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Harmonious passion as an explanation of the relation between signature strengths’ use and well-being at work: Test of an intervention program (2012, result): “These results have been obtained in different fields, such as coaching (Linley et al., 2009; Luthans, 2002; Smith, 2006), clinical psychology (Lopez and Kerr, 2006; Rashid and Ostermann, 2009; Tedeschi and Kilmer, 2005; Wong, 2006), education (Nickerson and Fishman, 2009) and work (Cascio and…”
Positive organizational psychology, behavior, and scholarship: A review of the emerging literature and evidence base (2010, background): “Some highlight the similarities between positive psychology and coaching psychology, and contend coaching psychology is a form of applied positive psychology (Grant & Cavanagh, 2007; Linley et al., 2009).”