John Andrew Williams

Welcome Jennyfer!

[ubermenu config_id=”main” theme_location=”primary”] Welcome, Jennyfer! Hi Team,  Happy July! I hope you’re all doing well. We’ve had some significant changes on the leadership team that I’d love to relay to you.  At the end of May, our social media manager, Jazzmin Martinez, decided to pursue an exciting opportunity to work with her husband’s company and …

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Coming Together as Humanity – 3 Coaching Tools and 7 Resources for Greater Understanding

Many coaches from our CTEDU community have been reaching out this week and asking for advice and resources on how to combat systemic racism and use coaching as a tool to increase awareness and action to heal as humanity. I want to acknowledge the deep pain our country is experiencing together with and for our black …

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Strengths-Based Leadership Development: Insights from Expert Coaches

[018 Research Review | STRENGTH Series: 1] In the late 1990s, psychological research practitioners made a formal rallying cry to the American Psychological Association to push positive psychology research into the frontier of human strengths. Psychological research, as it developed over the 19th and early 20th centuries, focused on psychotic behaviors – their causes and how to fix them. As the authors of this paper point out, a focus on how to repair damaged psyches is critically important to society but it does not help us understand how psychologically healthy people can reach their highest potential.

Learning Style Critiques

[017 Research Review | LEARNING STYLES Series: 1] In recent decades, the idea of learning styles has spread broadly in the educational field. Its supporters make the argument that human beings learn in distinctly different ways from one another and people will therefore learn most effectively via instruction methods tailored to the way they learn best. It’s an incredibly useful idea, but its critics bring up a variety of valid points.