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A round up of the latest news and events to happen in the coaching and mentoring community. You can search the Coaching at Work archives by using the search box on the left.
Should coaches sniff cognitive enhancers before sessions?
Cognitive-enhancing pills and a spray of bonding hormone oxytocin could be just what the modern coach needs, a neuroscientist has suggested. “Oxytocin helps with facial
External coaches must get to know their organisation, or be overlooked
CONFERENCE ROUNDUP: EUROPEAN MENTORING & COACHING COUNCIL (EMCC) ANNUAL CONFERENCE, PARIS, 17-19 NOVEMBER External coaches will set themselves apart in coaching sponsors’
Goal-setting findings should silence critics
COACHING AT WORK COACHING AND MENTORING AT WORK: BEYOND FRONTIERS CONFERENCE, BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY OFFICES, LONDON, 23 NOVEMBER By Jane Campion Findings from neuroscience
Economic worries dominate readers’ survey
By Liz Hall Responding to current challenges, such as the economy and demonstrating ROI/value for money (VFM), are top of the agenda for 2012, according to this year’s Coaching
Survey: Are we ready for 2012?
Coaches and mentors must prove their worth as they face an uncertain year ahead. Coaching at Work’s readers’ survey shows they are well-prepared for the challenge Responding
Burditt Lecture winners offer ‘profound learning’
The Burditt Lectures announced the winning entries at its first awards ceremony at London’s BFI Southbank. Liz Hall reviews the two standout submissions Humility, soul-searching,
OCM pilot launched
The OCM has launched a six-month open ‘Coach as Supervisor’ programme to support internal coaches in a more supervisory role. Its pilot attracted 11 candidates from five
There’s an app for it
The inability of parts of the brain to connect directly has led to our need to talk things through. It’s why coaching is so effective. Speaking at the ICF’s Neuroscience
Baltic business
The OCM and Croatia-based training and consulting company Methodus have set up a coach training partnership. The diploma in coach-mentoring pilots The OCM’s partnership
Kaleidoscope tackles cultural complexity
COACHING AT WORK COACHING AND MENTORING AT WORK: BEYOND FRONTIERS CONFERENCE, LONDON, 23 NOVEMBER In a global market with a mobile middle class and the emergence of global