Business Coaching International investigates the significance, meaning and structure of the coaching intervention within the coach-client conversation, and takes a look at what, how and who you need to be to coach. At the heart of the business coaching process, irrespective of the model or approach, is the "relationship"....

Despite the proven benefits of emotional intelligence, organizational life has typically been hostile to the inner world of feeling. Rationality is deemed superior to feeling, which can contaminate judgment. But without feeling there is no passion, and no action....

Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn.  These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves.  Readers of this volume will fin...

Knowledge sharing between employees is a critical success factor in knowledge intensive organisations and depends on the quality of an employee’s relationships with co-workers. Relatively little research has been done on how to incorporate relationship aspects into a coaching intervention....

In this article we employ developments in social network analysis (SNA) specifically the p* model to examine the enactment of plural leadership within and across hierarchical levels and organizational boundaries (Denis et al. 2012)....

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Organizational cynicism has grown in contemporary Western organizations....

The IOC is pleased to share books authored by our Fellows and Sponsors. Be a more effective staff or volunteer leader by embracing six emerging competencies eight essential organizational foundations and one unifying strategy (co-creation)....

Leader cognition proves to be central to organizational functioning as leaders generate solutions and provide direction when organizations encounter problems....

Multilevel leadership researchers have predominantly applied either direct consensus or referent-shift consensus composition models when aggregating individual-level data to a higher level of analysis....