TY  - JOUR
TI  - Coaching with compassion: Inspiring health, well-being, and development in organizations
AU  - Boyatzis, R.E.
AU  - Smith, M.
AU  - Beveridge, A.
AB  - Compassion involves noticing another’s need, empathizing, and acting to enhance their well-being. In response to another’s pain, the motivation is to increase hedonic well-being or the absence of pain. In response to another’s desire to grow, the motivation is to increase eudaimonic well-being or helping them develop. We argue that compassion includes both. Our expanded view suggests that coaching with compassion will lead to desired change, enhanced health, and well-being. We propose a model saying coaching with compassion invokes a psychophysiological state that enables a person to be open to new possibilities and learning. In contrast, coaching for compliance (i.e., toward how the coach or the organization believe the person should act) and deficiency-based coaching invoke the opposite state—resulting in a person being defensive, reducing cognitive functioning. We theorize how coaching with compassion can enhance adaptability of the organization through creating norms and relationships of caring and development.
JO  - The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
PY  - 2012
SP  - 0021886312462236
UR  - jab.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/10/30/0021886312462236.abstract
LA  - English
ER  -