Vision-based coaching: optimizing resources for leader development

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Vision-based coaching: optimizing resources for leader development
Publication Date: 
April, 2015
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Leaders develop in the direction of their dreams, not in the direction of their deficits. Yet many coaching interactions intended to promote a leader’s development fail to leverage the benefits of the individual’s personal vision. Drawing on intentional change theory, this article postulates that coaching interactions that emphasize a leader’s personal vision (future aspirations and core identity) evoke a psychophysiological state characterized by positive emotions, cognitive openness, and optimal neurobiological functioning for complex goal pursuit. Vision-based coaching, via this psychophysiological state, generates a host of relational and motivational resources critical to the developmental process. These resources include: formation of a positive coaching relationship, expansion of the leader’s identity, increased vitality, activation of learning goals, and a promotion–orientation. Organizational outcomes as well as limitations to vision-based coaching are discussed.

Citation: 
Passarelli, A. M. (2015). Vision-based coaching: Optimizing resources for leader development. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00412

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