Development of Leadership Skills among Managers in the Process of Psychological Counseling

The article actualizes the problem of development of leadership skills among managers in the process of psychological counseling. At the theoretical and empirical level, the hypothesis is verified that the leaders of modern organizations are characterized by a low level of development of leadership qualities, such as sociability, the ability to self-regulation, self-motivation and empathy. The assumption about the possibility of development of leadership skills among managers in the process of group and individual psychological counseling, using developmental, transformative, educational methods of influence, is formulated. During the formative experiment the organizational and substantive components of the counseling program, aimed at developing managerial communication skills, as well as the ability to self-regulation, self-motivation, and empathy, have been developed and tested for the first time. It was found that the implementation of the presented program contributes to the development of leadership skills among the heads of organizations.