Development Editor Assistance award winners

The first 2020 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Pavlína Honsová, University of Economics, Prague for her proposal entitled 'How coachees perceive the coaching process – evidence using narration and graphical illustration.'

She will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal.

The purpose of the article is to increase our understanding about the coachee’s perspective of the coaching process and its phases. The article focuses on a large bank with 18 managerial participants who experienced around nine coaching sessions on average. Using the narrative inquiry and a part of a script adapted from the Life Story Interview (McAdams, 2008) four key plots were identified: a plot determined by different topics, bell shape/cycle, wavy curve, and rising curve. Participants were also asked to accompany their narratives with a graphical illustration, which promotes their reflection and corroborates the findings of the plots and depicts them in a clear and simple form.

Possible consequences were discussed, such as the ideal number of sessions, the wearing-off phenomenon in coaching, possible misunderstandings stemming from different perspectives, and also recommended future research directions that should add to our knowledge about coaching and contribute to the current literature.

We congratulate Pavlina and are excited to receive her submission!

The third 2018 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Bertil Engelbert for his proposal entitled "Guidelines for the consultant (or the HR staff) to handle underperforming leadership."

After spending 15 years in industry followed by 15 years as a consultant, Bertil grew alarmed by the number of underperforming managers in leadership positions. He pursued an M.S. degree in psychology to better understand the high incidence of poor leadership, and published a review article in IntechOpen summarizing relevant theory and research, Knowledge in Neuroscience Can Help Us Avoid Underperforming Leadersopens in new window.

His goal with the proposed article for Consulting Psychology Journal Development is to provide practical guidance to consulting psychologists for how to identify and then help organizational clients deal honestly and productively with underperforming leadership.

We congratulate Bertil and look forward to his submission!

The second 2018 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Karen Cogan for her proposal entitled 'With Olympic Medals at Stake Even Sport Psychologists Must Perform.'

Karen has been involved with the US Olympics Committee as a senior sports psychologist for some time.

She will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal, specifically for the forthcoming special issue on Coaching Elite Performers, guest-edited by Dr. Stewart Cooper.

We congratulate Karen and are eager to receive her submission!

The first 2018 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Stewart Cooper for his proposal for a special issue on coaching elite performer.

Stewart chaired a highly regarded APA conference session that included presentation on coaching elite performers in the military, emergency room, performing arts, professional- and Olympic-level athletics, and highly visible corporate leaders. His vision is to assemble a special issue of Consulting Psychology Journal Development based on these presentations, as well as others that may be submitted in response to a call for paper.

Stewart will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare an introductory article for the special issue that sets the stage for the focal article by reviewing the factors that make coaching extremely talented professionals demanding. The pressure of high-stakes and even life-or-death performance makes coaching in this context even more challenging and fraught with responsibility, possibly providing novel insights that can inform and enrich the practice of coaching more broadly conceived.

We congratulate Stewart and are eager to support him in preparing this very special Special Issue!

The first 2017 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Kristian Dahl, Jeppe Agger, and Thorkil Molly-Søholm for their proposal entitled "A Leadership Pipeline Model for the Public Sector."

This team of scholars and practitioners have been helping the Danish public sector to build leadership bench strength for several years and do a nice job blending research and applications. They will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal.

Their article should be a great example of evidenced-based practice. It also has the potential to showcase how to adapt a conceptual framework in order to apply it in a new context. In this case, they are taking a model developed for multinational corporations and customizing it to fit public sector institutions in the egalitarian Danish culture. The promise of this paper includes the example it provides for doing similar translation work with other concepts—and perhaps even lessons that inform the original, intended applications of the leadership pipeline model.

We congratulate Kristian, Jeppe, and Thorkil and are eager to receive their submission!

The fourth and final Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award for 2016 has been granted to Janette Williams for her proposal concerning a controlled field study using a quasi-experimental design to compare the impact of goal-focused vs process-focused approaches to coaching.

Such a carefully conducted field study would be a welcomed contribution the literature on coaching impact. We have pretty good evidence at this point that coaching can be an effective tool for improved motivation, behavior, and, to some degree, results. However, it is less clear what types of coaching, and in what circumstances, lead to better results. This study should contribute to this important practical question.

Janette will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal.

We congratulate Janette and look forward to receiving her submission!

The third 2016 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award has been granted to Kerry R. Cronan, Owen J. Gaasedelen, Vicki V. Vandaveer, and Michelle Downey for their proposal to write a series of articles that explore the role of The Self in consulting psychology.

These papers are based on a highly regarded session from the 2016 Midwinter conference, "The Agency of Self in the Consulting Relationship". The underlying premise is that in recent years, the profession of consulting has drifted toward an emphasis on technique and, perhaps unwittingly, away from an understanding of the human dimensions of the professional consultant.

The purpose of this series of articles is to provide a conceptual framework that better integrates both “technique” and “The Self” and then practice models based on this framework for the training and development of consulting psychologists as well as the delivery of psychologically-based consulting services.

Kerry Cronan will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare the first manuscript in the series, laying the conceptual foundation for the others. This first paper, and those that follow, will be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal.

We are excited by the potential in this series to illuminate the human side of how we do our work and look forward to reviewing the papers!

The second 2016 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Peter Soerensen for his proposal entitled "Individual perceptions of training transfer conditions in public organizations."

Peter will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review to Consulting Psychology Journal.

His topic is highly relevant to the readership of Consulting Psychology Journal. The focus in on how participants in a leadership training program view the transfer for climate back in their employing organizations and the effect that the climate for transfer has on the degree of behavior change and performance improvement following the training program.

The study is based on a training program conducted at Aalborg University, Denmark for public service leaders. But the findings should be relatively generalizable to other contexts and help to identify the key aspects of transfer one needs to consider to up the odds of getting a positive return on performance from leadership training and development and how purveyors of leadership programs can strive to improve those things associated with better transfer?

We congratulate Peter and are eager to receive his submission!

The first 2016 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Joel DiGirolamo for his proposal entitled "Utilizing a Generalized Model of Adult Change to Enhance Your Coaching Experience."

Joel will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review.

His topic is of great interest to readers of Consulting Psychology Journal, as it delves into the mechanics of behavioral change by combining research on the self-concept, learning styles, logic systems, cognition, motivation, and emotion within an integrative framework of change. The integrative framework of change ties together self-determination, transformative learning, the transtheoretical model of change, locus of control, and self-efficacy theories.

The goal of this paper is to distill a wealth of disparate research to guide coaching efforts through a simplified and unified explanation of fundamental elements of behavior and attitude change and the processes through which they work.

We congratulate Joel and are eager to receive his submission!

The second 2015 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Dr. Loretta L. C. Brady of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, for her proposal entitled "Engaging a Countrywide Social Service Change Effort: Approaches to Trauma-Informed System Change Applied in Cyprus."

Dr. Brady will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review.

Her topic appeals on a number of levels. First, it is an international consulting project. Second, it involves humanitarian relief efforts, which psychologists are increasingly involved with from Liberia to Syria and throughout Europe. Finally, Dr. Brady identifies trauma as an often unrecognized aspect of these relief effects that can play a decisive role in increasing the quality of life and recovery of the afflicted populations.

As psychologists, we may be some of the best qualified professionals to attend to this critical, but less attended, aspect of humanitarian relief.

We congratulate Dr. Brady and are eager to receive her submission!

The first 2015 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance Award has been granted to Joshua Ehrlich, for his proposal entitled "Mindful Leadership: Focusing Yourself and Your Organization to Perform."

Josh will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review.

His topic couldn't be more contemporary, and his approach will be to bring some much needed discipline and rigor to articulate what mindfulness is as well as the evidence-base supporting various techniques and methods for helping managers to use mindfulness practices to improve their leadership and the performance of their organizations.

We congratulate Josh and are eager to receive his submission!

The fourth and final 2014 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award has been granted to Lyne Desormeaux and her colleagues Jean Lau Chin and Katina Sawyer for their proposal entitled "Diversity Leadership."

This is a fascinating project involving qualitative research methods to understand the implicit theories, preferences, and expectations of leaders by members of historically underrepresented groups. I am excited by this project as the authors are helping to us to find our way in an increasingly pluralistic, inclusive, and diverse world. I think we all "get" that it is a changing world, but don't always know just what that means. This project promises to help show the field and the larger society some answers.

The research team will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, in turning their rich qualitative research into a manuscript to be submitted for review.

We congratulate Lyne, Jean, and Katina and look forward to receiving their submission!

The third Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award has been granted to Michael H. Frisch for his proposal entitled "Bob Lee's Ten Less Obvious Lessons about Becoming a Successful Executive Coach."

This is a particularly poignant award. Michael will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, to complete a paper started by the late Bob Lee, a paper that Bob was asked by Consulting Psychology Journal editor, Rob Kaiser, to contribute based on his hard-won wisdom as an executive coach and many years of training people to become a coach.

As a close collaborator and colleague of Bob's, Michael was also a thought-partner with Bob as they brainstormed ideas for this paper. With his intimate knowledge of Bob's point of view and what he wished to share with the profession, Michael will work with Martin, who also worked closely with Bob when they were both at the Center for Creative Leadership, to prepare a manuscript to be submitted for review.

We feel honored to have the chance to consider this submission for publication in the journal.

The second 2014 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award has been granted to Alex C. Howland and his colleagues Ronald Rembisz, Tiffani Wang-Jones, Sherilin Heise, and Sheldon Brown, for their proposal entitled "The Future of Assessment Centers: A Case Study."

The research team will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, in turning their exciting interdisciplinary work on using immersive technologies to enhance the assessment center methodology into a manuscript to be submitted for review.

We congratulate Alex, Ron, Tiffani, Sherilin, and Sheldon and are eager to receive their submission!

The first 2014 Consulting Psychology Journal Development Editor Assistance award has been granted to Tracy Cocivera for her proposal entitled "Influence in Organizations: Choosing Successful Influence Tactics."

Tracy will work with our Development Editor, Martin Wilcox, in turning her award-winning dissertation research into a manuscript to be submitted for review.

Congratulations to Tracy! We are excited to receive her submission.