Coaching the ‘Ideal Self’ for Sustained Positive Change: A Realistic Approach Backed By Research

To get where you want to be from where you are

If you also aspire to continue expanding your perspectives, enriching your coaching practice with eclectic theories and methodologies, perhaps you too will be inspired by recent research into organizational behavior by Anthony Jack, Angela Passarelli and Richard Boyatzis (2023).

Jack, Passarelli, and Boyatzis (2023) put forward a coaching process of intentional change that could be summarized as such: to get where you want to be from where you are, rather than to get from where you are to where you want to be…

Here is a presentation of their perspective on coaching for sustained change and its potential implications for coaching within organizations.

Coaching the “ideal self” for intentional change

As professional coaches, we are committed to supporting the development of valued corporate executives and our role in such interventions is to encourage self-directed learning and perseverance in professional development efforts, resulting in sustained positive change.

To further strengthen the impact of our practice, Jack, Passarelli and Boyatzis (2023)…