936: Peer Coaching Groups as an Innovative Tool to Foster Performance and Well-being of the Participants (14090)

Sunday, August 11, 2024

15:00 – 16:30 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

Location: Swissotel: Zurich F

Session Number: 936
Symposium (panel)
Orientation: Practice,Theme,Research
Highlight
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/zEygMb

Organizer(s)

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Roman Terekhin

George Washington U., United States

Panelist(s)

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Emma Levine

U. Of Chicago
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Heba Mahmoud

The MITRE Corporation
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Henry Mintzberg

McGill U. - Desautels Faculty of Management, Canada
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John Paul Stephens

Case Western Reserve U., United States

Facilitator(s)

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Natalia Fey

BI Norwegian Business School, Norway
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Jeffrey Yip

Simon Fraser U., Canada

Panelist(s)

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Leo Bottary

Peernovation, LLC
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Tessa Charlesworth

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, United States
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Swati Dela Cruz

USAA
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Amy C. Edmondson

Harvard U., United States
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Lauren Eskreis-Winkler

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
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Angela Hall

Michigan State U., United States

Organizations has been using diverse tools to address the needs for the employees' well-being and individual development, investing growing budgets and efforts into this important goals. Peer coaching groups (PCGs) can become a low-cost, inclusive, and adaptive toolset to address these pressing needs. Hundreds of global business communities, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and prominent business schools have successfully employed different PCG settings. At the same time, amidst the wide diversity of practitioners' approaches to PCGs, scholarly literature lacks explanation of what factors and why make PCGs effective in fostering the performance, learning, and well-being of the participants. Thus, this panel symposium provides an arena for scholars and practitioners to explore different designs of PCGs: the practitioners will explain their PCGs' designs and engage scholars in a discussion on underlying mechanisms that drive each setting and factors that impact its process and outcomes. As a result, we hope that the audience will learn about the value of PCGs, diverse approaches to designing PCGs, and the theoretical bases of their effectiveness.