Coaches Make a Difference
Sometimes it helps us have the courage needed to do our work as coaches if we remember the value we bring. A 2021 article in the Consulting Psychology Journal by Robert Hogan, Robert Kaiser, Ryne Sherman, and Peter Harms (“Twenty Years on the Dark Side: Six Lessons about Bad Leadership”) provides important data. For those of you not immersed in psychological literature, the Hogan Suite of psychological assessments, which the authors relied on for much of their data, is one of the most widely used suites of assessment tools in business psychology. It is particularly effective in predicting leadership success . . . and its absence. Due to the Hogan’s widespread use, and the authors’ dedication to ongoing research, you can trust that the insights they provide are based on hard evidence. In their article, the authors provide stunning numbers concerning the incidence of bad leadership in modern organizations. For example: “. . .…