TY  - JOUR
TI  - Workplace failure: Mastering the last taboo.
AU  - Newton, N.
AU  - Khanna, C.
AU  - Thompson, J.
AB  - Consulting psychologists often coach individuals confronting obvious or implied workplace failure. They face the challenge of facilitating clients’ ability to learn valuable personal and professional lessons from the experience while helping them negotiate the negative psychological, emotional, and practical consequences of failure in the healthiest way. This article provides a model for understanding failure that can facilitate consultants’ effectiveness. The model proposes that there are 3 key steps to successfully negotiating a failure experience: recognizing that failure has occurred, restoring and/or maintaining emotional equilibrium, and learning the appropriate lessons so that one can move forward as a more effective worker. In describing these steps, the article examines the relationship of failure to psychological variables such as selfesteem, self-efficacy, locus of control, and attribution. The authors outline the role that a consulting psychologist can play in assisting someone to successfully negotiate these steps.
IS  - 3
JO  - Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research
PY  - 2008
KW  - executive coaching
KW  - workplace coaching
KW  - work failure
SP  - 227
UR  - psycnet.apa.org/journals/cpb/60/3/227/
VL  - 60
LA  - English
ER  -