This article describes several applications of transactional analysis, including: within organizations; developments of English's (1975) three-cornered contract to include five levels plus the ...context and involvement of more parties; suggestions on how transactional analysis can be combined with neurolinguistic programming for greater impact; conversion of the six treatment levels of the discount matrix (Schiff et al., 1975) into a framework of "steps to cross-cultural success"; and the metaphor of a ship, which provides a model for understanding the "hardware" and "software" of an organization and how these contribute to the climate and culture.
This article briefly critiques an earlier article in the Transactional Analysis Journal (Nykodym, Freedman, Simonetti, Nielsen, & Battles, 1995) on mentoring and goes on to propose that the ...traditional style of mentoring is increasingly inappropriate in modern organizations. The author then describes the potential contribution to mentoring of the transactional analysis concepts of contracting, three-cornered contracting, psychological distance, drivers, ego states, strokes, and the assessing quadrant and explains how these can provide valuable input to a mentoring process that is based on developmental alliances between equals.
This paper explores the nature of mentoring and contrasts traditional approaches with a developmental format that may be more suited to today's flatter organisations. A definition of developmental ...mentoring is given plus a model for differentiating between traditional and developmental mentoring, coaching, counselling and managing. Trends facing organisations are summarised and the reader is invited to review developmental processes and consider the impact of various mentoring formats on communication processes within their organisation.
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