"Countert- ransference in a coaching setting"
This working paper explores the theme of countertransference in consultancy or coaching setting. The theme of countertransference is taken beyond the couch and applied to the consultancy or coaching setting. How consultants or coaches can use themselves as a source of information when dealing with their clients is explored—that is, how they can use their own reactions to help them interpret, in dyadic situations, what the client is trying to transmit to them. Four forms of the transference-countertransference interface between coach/consultant and client are presented. The author also provides suggestions regarding what coaches and consultants need to pay attention to when listening to their clients. Dysfunctional communication patterns are also explored.
INSEAD Working Paper, 2007
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Leadership Coaching and Organizational Transformation: Effectiveness in a World of Paradoxes
This paper describes the unique leadership coaching approach which focuses not only on what is directly observable, but also on out-of-awareness behaviour.
Published on 1 Jul, 2008
"Dreams as entry points to executive subconscious"
Dream Journeys: New Territory for Executive Coaching
This working paper addresses how leadership coaches should also pay attention to their clients’ dreamtime to help executives with their journey into their own interior.
Published on 14 Feb, 2014
"Executive complexes in organisations"
Complex Executives I have Met in Coaching and Consulting
This working paper explores the nature and origin of complexes and then explores five complexes regularly encountered in organizational coaching and consulting work.
Published on 7 May, 2006
"Fairy tales for today’s executives"
Fairy Tales for Executives: Story Telling as a Catalyst for Change
This working paper looks at how fairy tales—when applied to the realm of executive leadership—act as a shortcut to moral lessons, illustrating the dangers of leadership and various ways in which executives can derail.
Published on 6 Mar, 2015
"Death anxiety and succession issues"
Death and the Executive: Encounters with the “Stealth” Motivator
This article takes a clinical lens to explore death anxiety as a motivational force, how it affects behaviour in organisations, and how we metabolise the feelings death evokes.
Published on 1 Feb, 2014
"Profile of Vladimir Putin"
Vladimir Putin, CEO of Russia Inc.
This paper compares Russian President Vladimir Putin to effective business executives, studying his performance through the same lenses used to assess CEOs of large corporations, and reviewing the degree to which his various constituencies are satisfied with his performance.
Published on 6 May, 2005
"Peer coaching and strategy alignment"
Sometimes Colleagues Are the Best Coaches
This blog entry with the Harvard Business Review discusses how peer coaching interventions can make a huge difference to the implementation of a strategy or change initiative of an organisation.
Published on 1 May, 2014
You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
This book is all about helping coaches to become more effective. Each chapter presents a profile of a particular type of toxic executive—the narcissist, psychopath, cold fish, obsessive-compulsive, and many more—and offers coaches examples of interventions that have worked—and those that haven't. Kets de Vries offers expert advice from the front line of working with puzzling executives.
Published on 11 Nov, 2015
"Psycho- dynamic aspects of effective leadership"
Psychodynamic Issues in Organisational Leadership
This working paper explores the psychodynamic aspects of effective leadership.
Published on 11 Dec, 2011
"How to groom organisa- tional stars"
Reaching Stardom: How to Identify and Develop Top Performers
This working paper addresses nascent stars: What makes those that turn into butterflies so special? What makes them so successful? What are the qualities that turn them into top performers?
Published on 5 Jul, 2010
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Anne Wiggins
Nov 11, 11:56 AM
I would like to learn more.