Fresh thinking (learning and behaviour)

Article Type: Abstracts From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 18, Issue 4

Wright N. and , Marshall R.Training Journal (UK), January 2010, Start page: 28, No. of pages: 4

Draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to discuss how consultants can work with organizational leaders to improve organizational performance. Explains the insights that cognitive behavioural therapy offer into the ways that leaders analyse organizational problems and identify their solutions, highlighting how much this can be affected by cognitive distortions, polarized thinking and ill-founded assumptions and generalizations. Illustrates this with a series of scenarios and discusses how a consultant can work with leaders to unpick their faulty thinking. ISSN: 1465-6523 Reference: 39AE978

Keywords: Cognition, Decision making, Leadership, Problem solving, Consultants