Welcome to the January issue of the newsletter
Happy New Year to you all.
Our blogging section is now up and running with our first blog from John Whitmore – do let us know what you think.
We’re currently gathering thoughts about issues concerning poor coaching practice to inform the survey we plan to conduct with the Association for Coaching, the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology, the Society of Coaching Psychology, the European Mentoring & Coaching Council UK and the International Coach Federation UK.
Please email me your comments at liz@coaching-at-work.com
Liz Hall
Editor
Coaching at Work
Highlights of the current issue of the magazine
You tell us
Do you use storytelling in your coaching- if so, how?
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Related article: Juggling act
Coaching challenge
Cold comfort
Sarah Fenwick shares her one of her quickest and challenging coaching experience when she had to support the Rivers of Ice expedition. Read more… Related article: Can we kick it? |
Coaching tips
How to… help clients gain credibility
Any promotion, internal or external, will likely fail if the appointee is not taken seriously. Coaching can be of huge benefit here. Read more… Related article: KPMG internal coaching |
Stop press
Roll up for ICF pro-bono coaching grants
For the first time, the ICF Foundation, the International Coach Federation’s non-profit arm, is accepting grant applications for pro bono coaching in education. Professional coaches and non-profit groups proving pro bono coaching to school principals, headmasters, teachers or students have until January 31st to apply for the grants. No set amounts have been announced. Finalists will be announced in the spring.
Mentoring boosts retention of female “rookies”
Mentoring can offer female police officers useful support, helping them cope with work/life balance issues, become more confident and motivated, and providing a dynamic route to career development against a backdrop of a lack of female officers in senior ranks.
However there is ample scope for mentoring “to have a negative effect if it is not given adequate attention from design to closure”, says David Carson in his paper “Mentoring For Women in Policing in the UK”, published in the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring Special Issue No.3 (November 2009). He stresses the importance of setting expectations clearly as disappointment can have far-reaching consequences such as tarnishing reputations.
US web-based coaching merger
The Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT) has been acquired by LifeOptions. ILCT was founded by Pat Williams in 1998 to train psychotherapists, psychologists and counsellers in creating life coaching practices. LifeOptions provides web-based products to managed care companies, health plans, and large businesses in the US. Williams, who will become a Senior Vice President at LifeOptions, says the merger will create a need for more trained coaches to provide services to LifeOptions’ existing clients.
AC expands honorary awards
The Association for Coaching has two new global honorary awards this year. Its Social Innovation (Social, Environmental, Economic & Cultural Focus) Service to the World award recognises organisations which demonstrate a commitment to significant and sustainable change. Its global Corporate Ambassador (Cultural, People and Service to Corporate Evolution) Service to Coaching within Organisations award recognises “leading light” organisations with coaching cultures and a clear commitment to implementing, enhancing and improving the art of coaching in organisations.
The AC’s other honorary awards are Influencing (Leadership/Internal Focus) Service to the Profession of Coaching, which recognises “ambassador” individuals who influence the debate and development of coaching and its influence within the business and wider communities, and Impacting (Leadership/External Focus) Service to the Wider Community, which recognises pioneers in delivering and demonstrating ethically the benefits coaching based relationships deliver into the wider community.
Coaching Psychology Unit expands team
City University’s Coaching Psychology Unit (CPU) has appointed coaching psychologists Siobhain O’Riordan and Kristina Gyllensten as deputy directors. O’Riordan has been BPS SGCP chair and is founder chair of the Society for Coaching Psychology. Gyllensten is an expert on stress and coaching and former research officer for the BPS SGCP. Both are already honorary research fellows at the University and supervise doctorate students at the CPU. The appointments will allow the CPU to expand its doctoral research programme.
News online
BPS honours David Lane with award for outstanding contributions
The British Psychological Society (BPS) has honoured David Lane and Graham Turpin with a joint award for their outstanding contributions to professional psychology. Read more…
Seventy seven per cent of respondents said they expected coaching spend to have risen or remained the same in 2009 (38% and 39% respectively), according to the third annual Ridler Report on executive coaching trends. Read more…
Diary Dates
February 2010
10 February: Newcastle upon Tyne
Association for Coaching “Words that change minds: opening the right doors for your clients” with Shelle Rose Charvet
March
11-12 March: London
Association for Coaching international Going Global 2010 conference
Question of the month
Does gender make a difference in coaching?
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The Centre for Coaching runs a range of Middlesex University Accredited and Association for Coaching recognised modular coaching courses.
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