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The Importance of Helping Employees Finding Their Own Purpose in a Corporate Environment – An Experimental Project.

2022/09/29

A Research Paper By Paola Gallucco
Transformational Coach, UNITED KINGDOM

Corporate reasoning is not known for fostering employees’ individuality. Instead, particularly in previous decades, their culture was seen as successful if it was able to attract “pleaser” workers who would obediently follow the management’s directives, which were aimed at the company’s greatest profits. The fairly recent financial scandals made everyone aware of the unethical behavior that results from this environment and attitude, and both the media and regulators began to place a strong emphasis on ideas that previously did not exist, like Ethics and more frequently Values, that regulators around the world now require every company to demonstrate.

Fit and Healthy: Looking Fit vs. Being Healthy

2022/09/23

A Research Paper By Eitan Israelski
Wellness Coach, ISRAEL

We are in the “Age of Fitness,” when society is becoming more and more obsessed with physical fitness “Fit and Healthy”. But is our obsession with fitness starting to turn unhealthy with the increasing pressure to not only stay fit but also to build a toned, fit-looking body? Exercise, movement, sports, and general physical activity are undoubtedly linked to a wide range of advantages for our physical and mental health as well as for our social lives and community. The growth of social media has driven beauty and body ideals into overdrive. The pressure to stay in shape, though, might be detrimental to our physical and mental health. A key component of health is fitness. You must lead a healthy, balanced lifestyle if you want to be in good health.

Typical Pitfalls When Creating Accountability and Strategies for Effective Action Against Them

2022/09/20

A Research Paper By Douglas Cryns
Confidence Coach, GERMANY

The purpose of this paper is to raise awareness of the common mistakes made when creating frameworks for accountability. It does this first by outlining the importance of accountability and how to implement it. Then, I’ll detail common accountability pitfalls we encounter when trying to achieve our goals, why they are, and what we can do to prevent them. In coaching, it’s crucial for coaches to make sure their clients receive the help they need to carry out their plans and reach their objectives. Support includes the means to ensure commitment to achieving goals, as well as the tools, people, structures, and ways to achieve and measure those goals.

Helping Clients Explore Guilt

2022/09/16

A Research Paper By Olya Taran
Life Coach, UNITED STATES

This research paper discusses coaching techniques that can be used to help clients examine non-chronic guilt, including definitions, the experience of guilt, associated common beliefs, and coaching practices. Gilt is a useful feeling that can be used to identify actions that may be detrimental to others or inconsistent with one’s morals. In this case, it can be beneficial to admit and examine your guilt so that you can let go of it and take positive action. However, sometimes, people have thoughts about their actions that make them feel guilty about things that aren’t actually wrong. This essay is based on recurring themes discovered during coaching sessions with my clients and outside sources.

Finding Flow – Pursuing the Worthwhile Moments

2022/09/12

A Research Paper By Marta Potulna
Leadership Coach, AUSTRALIA

Positive psychology has long been interested in the idea of finding satisfaction in the mundane and being in the zone. And understandably so—everyone desires a life that is worthwhile. The use of the concept of flow in life, transformation, career, or leadership coaching sessions might be expanded in the coaching industry. This article discusses research on the concept of flow and how it can be used to train clients to transition from a state of persistent dissatisfaction to a state of continuous flow.

Maximizing Teams Performance and Collaboration

2022/09/07

A Research Paper By Potsakorn Srisophon
Business Coach, THAILAND

In a situation where nothing can be predicted. Teams frequently confront challenges as a result of both internal and external pressures. The team’s leaders are not under any obligation to act alone. The leader should provide every team member with the tools essential for leadership growth. In the present era, one person cannot attain success, although in the past, having an all-around leader may lead to success. Leaders are more likely to achieve their objectives if they can motivate their followers through coaching questions and group thinking. Being a coach, and a leader can inspire a team to work together and support one another in the face of adversity.

Incorporating Mindfulness Meditation Into Coaching Practice

2022/09/05

A Research Paper By Lichenyang Zhou
Intimate Relationship Coach, CHINA

(Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1990) Or, as stated in Mindfulness Nation UK’s annual report, “mindfulness means paying attention to what’s happening in the present moment in the mind, body, and external environment, with an attitude of curiosity and kindness.” (Mindful Nation UK, 2015) Mindfulness meditation is one of the methodologies for meditation. It is broadly defined as practicing nonjudgmental attention to experiences in the present moment, or “practicing being.” It is advised for meditators to either sit or lie still while observing rather than controlling their breathing. The only thing that is required of meditators is for them to simply accept, note, and let go of their thoughts and feelings as they divert their attention.

Loss and Mourning in Career Coaching

2022/08/30

A Research Paper By Mark Wavle
Career and Agile Coach, UNITED STATES

In essence, I’m looking at how grief counseling and career coaching interact and how this might help our clients. We may find that our clients are unable to advance in areas where they haven’t addressed a related loss, as I discovered with my coaching client. As we work with clients to determine their next steps, some of the obstacles our clients face can be the result of pent-up grief and loss. Mourning allows for the possibility of reframing, which provides our clients with the development and motion they want.

Values Clarification: The Path to the WHO

2022/08/26

A Research Paper By Mareva Godfrey
Parenting Coach, UNITED STATES

Many of the values we learn as children persist throughout our lives, while others are still being picked up, developed, and abandoned. Even as adults, our fundamental views still shape who we are, whether we realize it or not. These influences come from friends, spouses, coworkers, mentors, clergy, and the larger culture. Furthermore, a person’s personal values are linked to society’s moral norms and are impacted by ethics, which is a set of values that define proper behavior for a group, such as honesty, cooperation, and professionalism. Because they are the implicit and explicit agreements about how we will behave while we are together, values, morality, and ethics are essential to the success of a “culture”.

Developing Managers of People™.

2022/08/25

A Research Paper By Barbara DeMatte
Business Coach, UNITED STATES

In the business world, managers are often promoted from superstar employees who manage a team that produces widgets. Most of the time, those who possess the knowledge, aptitude, or capacity to manage are not promoted to managerial positions. Instead, a position became available, and the best widget maker or the worker with the longest tenure was given the job. This research paper won’t assess how people should be judged on their capacity to fill managerial positions. Instead, it will concentrate on how to coach the person to use the tools and resources at hand to become a better Developing Managers of People™.