Welcome to the June issue of the newsletter
Is it acceptable to practice therapy when we’re coaching? This emerged as a hot topic in our Poor Practice 2010 Survey. Certainly some of you see it as clear cut— no therapy when you’re wearing your coach hat and that’s that. But many of you think it’s all a matter of what you’ve contracted for and that as long as there’s clarity and agreement, fine. Others highlight how much of what we do in coaching comes from therapy anyway — such as solution–focused coaching, cognitive behavioural coaching and so on. How about you? You tell us. You can read the first set of results from the survey in the July/August issue and the second set in the following issue.
As I write this, many of you are still reeling after England’s disappointing performance against Algeria in the World Cup. But it’s not just the likes of Rooney who’ve come under fire — coach Capello is very much in the firing line. In the business world, team coaching is still in its infancy — but imagine if business team coaches were held as accountable for the performance of teams they work with.
Liz Hall,
Editor, Coaching at Work
Highlights of the current issue of the magazine
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AC UK/UEL Leadership Coaching Conference, 8th July
Speakers include Anthony Grant, Alex Linley, Adrian Furnham, Jonathan Passmore and Katherine Tulpa.
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Spot the difference
Special report
Life coaching should sit under the same umbrella as executive coaching but still has some work to do to shed its poor image in some quarters. Read more
On song
Creativity
How one coach used music as an instrument for learning with her client Read more
Related article: The art of coaching
Stop Press
Vocational qualifications vital in achieving career goals, says research
Gaining a professional vocational qualification is a vital step in achieving long term career goals for half (51%) of workers, according to research conducted among more than 4,000 active jobseekers by distance learning business Home Learning College and recruitment website reed.co.uk. Some 84% of those who had undertaken vocational study described it as essential or beneficial to their career development. ng assistant director of services for the Scottish Association for Mental Health.
Grow your own
The increase in pressure on budgets has forced more organisations to focus on developing in–house talent rather than recruiting externally, up from 40% in 2009 to 66% this year, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Resourcing and Talent Planning survey. More than half (54%) of organisations are now implementing measures to retain rather than recruit talent, up from 36% last year. Some 67% report an inability to source specialist talent, says the survey of nearly 500 organisations.
Use your lack of understanding as a tool
Coaches delivering cross–cultural coaching should use their lack of understanding as a tool, argued Jenny Plaister–Ten at the European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) UK conference on 5–7 May. She said the key aptitudes in cross–cultural coaching include: challenging assumptions; the coach’s own cultural self–awareness; remaining open; tolerance of/for ‘ambiguity’; working towards accumulated cross–cultural wisdom, and a systems approach, writes Elaine Robinson. Plaister–Ten’s research involved interviews with 10 global coaches from 25 countries and 38 nationalities, representing 20,000 hours of coaching time.
First international coaching psychology congress event
The First International Congress of Coaching Psychology 2010–11 at City University in London is the first in a series of events forming part of an international congress. The two day event hosted in December by the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology (SGCP) is hosted by the SGCP and other national bodies representing coaching psychology around the world. Other stages of the congress will be held during 2011, hosted in countries including Australia and sponsored by regional coaching psychology groups. Find out more at www.sgcp.org.uk/sgcp/events/coming-events
Diversity not an option
Consultant Linbert Spencer told coaches that they should approach diversity as a given. He said that two or more people represent diversity so it is not an option while Equal Opportunity (EO) is ‘the floor beneath which we must not sink’, writes Elaine Robinson. Speaking at the EMCC UK conference on 5–7 May, he said EO for individuals is about access, belief and choice. He stressed the importance of inclusion, warning that people who are not fully included won’t fully contribute, a lesson for coaching and for society. He shared the following formula for success in diversity and inclusion:
(Knowledge + Skills + Judgement) x (Attitude x Treatment) = Performance
Beliefs + Commitment = Treatment
Inclusion = Performance
News Online
Coaching can help stop leaders de–railing
Organisations don’t spend enough time thinking about what they don’t want in a leader and how to manage de–railing — one way is for leaders to receive coaching or mentoring, leadership expert Adrian Furnham told delegates at the Association of Business Psychologists’ tenth annual conference on 6–8 May. Read more
Who is feedback feeding?
Executive coach Stephen Burt urged coaches to think about who feedback is feeding — it needs to be two–way and in both parties’ interests, he said at the EMCC UK conference on 5–7 May in London. Read more
Diary dates
July 2010
1 July: London
Association for Coaching ‘ Can you coach a narcissist?’ with Adrienne Rosen, head of talent identification and assessment at Cedar Talent Management
1 July: Oxford
OCM Group CPD/Supervision Day www.theocm.co.uk
2 July: London
British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology event: Manfusa Shams and David Lane present ‘Developing Coaching Skills for International Business: transferable and culturally appropriate’
8 July: London
Association for Coaching and University of East London conference: Leadership: developing elite performance www.associationforcoaching.com
26–30 July
Centre for Coaching Certificate in Coaching www.centreforcoaching.com
Question of the month
What, if any, are the differences between life and business coaching?
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