Journal Articles

• Journal article: “The Hidden Challenges in Role Transitions and How Leadership Coaching Can Help New Leaders Find Solid Ground.” In Holistic Nursing Practice, July/August 2011
  
  ABSTRACT: Leadership coaching is becoming an increasingly important intervention that helps individual nurse executives and managers develop and use the best of their strengths, gifts, and talents. As the need for leadership in nursing becomes urgent and brave souls move into the positions of greater authority and potential impact, they will face challenges as they move up in rank. This article identifies the hidden and often-overlooked challenges that are faced by new leaders as they transition into roles of increased responsibility, and it demonstrates how leadership coaching can help new leaders make successful transitions. As the current health care crisis creates opportunity for new leaders, those who opt for promotions and lateral shifts encounter both expected and surprising challenges. The expected challenges include mastering new content skills, learning new organizational structures, and getting to know new teams. The less obvious stressors include issues of self-esteem, assertiveness, self-consciousness, self-criticism, perfectionism, new boundaries, changing identities, and finding one's own leadership style. These important issues are often kept out of conscious awareness and overlooked at great cost to the individual leader and her institution. Leadership coaching can provide support and practical strategies for managing and overcoming these hidden challenges.
• "The Benefits of a Leadership Program and Executive Coaching for New Nursing Academic Administrators: One College's Experience" (This is a PDF document.)

Book Chapters

• "Executive Coaching to Support Doctoral Role Transitions and Promote Leadership Consciousness" co-authored with Dr. Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow in Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice. Springer Publishers 2011
• "Shame, Compassion, and the Journey Towards Health," in Effective Clinical Practice with Eating Disorders: The Heart of the Matter co-authored with Dr. Jane Shure ( Routledge,2009)

 

Beth on The Huffington Post

• What Makes for Good Leadership February 22, 2012
  In 2008, Gallup scientists reported on a research project that surveyed more than one million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and spoke with more than 10,000 "followers" around the world asking people why they followed the important leaders in their life. Results of their research launched a new perspective on the question, "What makes for good leadership?"... Read the full article...
• Learning From Failure and Living in Resilience November 3, 2011
  As a leadership development coach, I was thrilled when I noticed that April's Harvard Business Review was entirely devoted to the topic of failure -- how to understand it, learn from it, and recover from it. It spoke about resilience -- the capacity to rebound from failures and disappointments... Read the full article...
• Gloria Steinem Is Alive and Well, Reminding Us 'That Perfect Is Boring' and 'Beauty Is Irregular' January 3, 2011
  "Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture," said Gloria Steinem in a recent keynote address. In our culture, perfection means a thin body shape for women. Our societal value holds that "if I can attain the perfect body, i.e. the thin body, then I am OK. If I... Read the full article...
• Selling Perfection September 15, 2010
  I was at the hair dresser yesterday and flipping through a magazine about beauty rather than looking at the work material I'd brought with me. I was appalled. The entire magazine seemed to be one big advertisement for cosmetic surgery, geared towards women in their 20's and 30's. The main...
• Reflections On Giving And Receiving December 21, 2009
  It's that time of year for active giving and receiving. As I choose which of the soliciting envelopes to open, and which worthy organization will receive small checks from me, I've been reflecting on my own different ways of giving and receiving back. As a psychologist, some people say... Read the full article...
• The Lessons From Yoga Keep Coming September 10, 2009
  On my 40th birthday I was at a retreat center participating in my first ever yoga weekend which happened to be taught by the renowned Amrit Desai, the original yogi at the Kripalu Center in Mass. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into, but it was a way... Read the full article...
• Hard Economic Times Invoke Our Harsh Inner Critic June 8, 2009
  When we live with stress, we seem to get more critical of ourselves rather than more compassionate. Unfortunately, if one has a harsh inner critic lurking in the psyche, it comes to the fore when things get tough. The economic crisis is wreaking havoc on some peoples' self-confidence and... Read the full article...
• The Greatest Regret is Love Unexpressed June 24, 2008
  "The greatest regret is love unexpressed." Sitting on a meditation mat, I recently had one of those life-changing experiences. I'm not a regular at contemplative ventures, but I attended a two day retreat that involved hours of sitting and walking in silence in a peaceful environment, attending... Read the full article...
• When Was the Last Time You Listened to Silence? January 24, 2008
  When I was in college I used to add up the hours I spent doing my homework; the more hours I put in, the higher moral status I gave myself. Pathetic? But I was brought up to think that hard work, and particularly hard intellectual work, made me a better... Read the full article...
  

 

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