Skip to main content

How leaders use coaching skills to create lasting change

This is a precis of an article by Dr Rebecca Jones, Associate Professor in Coaching and Behavioural Change

Read the full article
I Stock 650151750

How can we support our team members to achieve lasting behaviour change and improve their performance?

The transfer of learning from training is often cited to be woefully low. So, if training cannot achieve lasting behaviour change, what is a viable alternative? We propose that when leaders use coaching skills on a daily basis with their team members, they hold purposeful conversations resulting in greater collaboration, increased awareness and responsibility, higher performance and, ultimately, sustained behaviour change.

Next Steps

Read the full article

Professor Rebecca Jones

 Professor in Coaching and Behaviour Change
Professor Rebecca Jones
Published 29 April 2022
Topics:
Research news Article

You might also like

Celebrating Early Careers research – runners up in the Research Output Prize

15 June 2023
Two Henley researchers – Dr Loua Khalil and Dr Yang Stephanie Liu – recognised in the ‘Prosperity and Resilience’ category.
Henley news Research news

From Zoom to Wide Angle: Taking a Broader Leadership Perspective

24 August 2021
This is how we define a decision: it’s the result of your deliberations when the answer is not implicit in the facts.
Article

Are psychopath leaders stifling sustainability and business transformation?

1 July 2022
Amid the growing need for businesses to focus on the ‘drive for success’, individuals with a willingness to employ high-risk strategies and fast-paced organisational growth are being actively recruited to senior roles. Colleagues turn into strangers with behaviours that echo psychopathic personality disorders.
Article