Coaching Interventions for Challenging Experiences and Post-traumatic Growth

Powley, Edward H.; Amdurer, Emily; Barrett, Frank J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-79952-6_13

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“…Organizations must recognize the micro and meso levels of barriers their women leaders may experience and provide mentorship, training, and support (Domingo et al, 2022), which could include individual or group coaching (Powley et al, 2021; Tehrani et al, 2012). Organizations must go further, however, recognizing the structural barriers in the first place and providing training across the leadership to educate leadership about these gendered and intersectional barriers present in too many organizational environments.…”

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Women’s traumatic experiences of leadership: Case studies and hypothesized mechanisms.

Wisdom,

Nabors

2024

Psychology of Leaders and Leadership

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Women are increasingly moving into leadership roles, but minimal research addresses how adverse leadership experiences can lead to distress. Employing participant observation in workshops for senior women psychologists, the article describes experiences women leaders face in the workplace and strategies they use to work through these distressing experiences. Findings from participant observation qualitative research (N = 8) indicate leaders experienced a plethora of poor management behaviors, including gaslighting, belittling, and undermining. Women attempted to defend themselves politically but ultimately succumbed to leaving their positions, experiencing low selfconfidence and self-blame. For these women leaders, we propose that the context of women's visibility in leadership roles, combined with exposure to negative workplace experience, led to perceptions of both public humiliation and threats to their livelihood, reputation, and character, which amplified their experience of traumatization. We provide recommendations for clinicians, policy makers, and researchers to further understand these challenges, address these issues, and facilitate women leaders' success.

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confidence: 99%