Join Dr. Krister Lowe and today's guest and leading
organizational coach Dr. Doug MacKie for this week's episode of The
Team Coaching Zone Podcast. Dr. MacKie is a Director, a business
psychologist and an executive coach at CSA Consulting in Brisbane
Australia. He specializes in the strength-based assessment and
development of executive and leadership capability within top 100
companies both in the UK, Asia and Australia. Doug completed the
largest controlled trial to date on the effects of strength-based
executive coaching on transformational leadership behavior. He
recently published a book on Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in
Organisations (2016).
In this episode, Doug shares his early career as a practicing
clinical psychologist and his experiences working on clinical
teams. He then discusses his transition into organizational
psychology and his mission to bring rigor to the research
underlying the coaching field. Themes explored in the podcast
include: strengths-based approach to leadership and team coaching;
positive psychology; the importance of evidenced-based practice in
coaching; strengths-based research controlled trial findings; the
importance of aligning with team leaders; using the MLQ 360 with
leaders and teams; how to bring a strengths-based approach into
team coaching; how team coaching complements and adds to team
facilitation and other forms of team intervention and more. Doug
also shares some great stories from his practice coaching leaders
and teams around the world including working with a team in
Mongolia.
This is an episode that is sure to both inspire as well as to
educate team coaches. You will not want to miss the powerful
insights, lessons learned and practical tips that Dr. MacKie
provides!