Welcome to the December issue of the newsletter
Against the backdrop of public sector cuts, bail–outs and general economic strife, it is hardly surprising that many respondents to this year’s Coaching at Work Annual Survey identified demonstrating value for money as a key priority for 2011. Or that a number of you highlight survival or working on your coaching business to help you survive as a top priority (see Stop Press). The good news is that coaching is still here, creativity, collaboration, innovation and responsiveness will be key, you say. You can read the results in the next issue but in the meantime, congratulations to Gladeana McMahon and David Clutterbuck– our Coaching at Work People of the Year! Your opinion counts: please let us know what you would like to see more of and less of in the printed magazine, this newsletter and our website by taking five minutes or so to complete our Editorial Opinion survey:
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Liz Hall,
Editor, Coaching at Work, Winner of the Association for Coaching Award for Impacting (Leadership/External Focus) Service to the Wider Community for 2010–11
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Highlights of the November/December issue of the magazine
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Rising Starr
Julie Starr is on a lifelong quest for truth. She tells Liz Hall about making coaching more accessible, even if that means making it ‘disappear’ completely. Read more
Behind the scenes
Coaches need to become aware of their presence and other parts of their ‘invisible toolkit’ and how it impacts on their practice. Read more
View from the balcony: Mentoring was meant to be
This series of columns by an anonymous coaching buyer takes a thought–provoking helicopter view of what’s going on in the industry. This issue: mentor vs coach Read more
Viewpoint: The buck stops here by Gil Schwenk
Don’t pass difficult conversations on to coaches – instead include them in a three–way dialogue. Problem solved! Read more
McMahon and Clutterbuck our people of the year
This year’s Coaching at Work Coaching Person of the Year award goes to Gladeana McMahon, newly re–crowned chair of the Association for Coaching UK. And our new Mentoring Person of the Year award goes to David Clutterbuck, co–founder of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council.
Cos you’re worth it
The top priority for 2011 is demonstrating coaching is worth investing in, according to the Coaching at Work Annual Survey 2010. Some 42% identified demonstrating value for money (VFM) as a key priority for 2011. Or that a number of you (11%) highlight survival or working on your coaching business to help you survive as a top priority (see Stop Press). Read the January/February issue for the full results, including what you see as the main achievements of 2010.
OCM signs new deal with CIPD
The OCM has just signed a new three year contract with the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) to run its coaching and mentoring qualifications. It has been working with the CIPD since 2003 so has taken the opportunity to update the programmes it offers. It is now running an European Mentoring & Coaching Council Foundation level qualification, as well as the Practitioner qualification, both of which have been given a focus on coaching and mentoring in the organisational context to fit the CIPD’s target audience.
UK employers not taking stress and depression seriously
Many UK employers are vulnerable to disability discrimination claims because they are failing to take depression and stress in the workplace seriously, research by online therapy service Mentaline.com reveals. Some 52% of respondents don’t consider depression a good enough reason to take time off, while more than one in five admit that they would be less likely to employ someone if they knew they had a history of mental illness. Nearly two–thirds (64%) fail to view anxiety as a good reason for leave, and nearly three–fifths (59%) say the same about stress, the poll found.
All–age careers service in UK
The government is to launch an all–age careers service for England, in what it says is the first of its kind. The Connexions service for young people and Next Step service for adults will be replaced by a “fully joined–up service” for all age groups from September 2011.
Lifelong Learning UK abolished
Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK), the sector skills council for the lifelong learning workforce, will disappear from April 2011. The skills council, which represents more than 57,000 UK employers in the field of work–based training, further and higher education, career guidance and libraries, will not have its license renewed “in its own right” following a review by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Kidsco at Christmas
The UK International Coach Federation UK has chosen Kids Company (www.kidsco.org.uk ) as its sponsored charity. Kidsco spoke at a recent ICF event (see When it hits the fan, who are you, News Online) about the work it does supporting more than 3000 vulnerable children and their families over the Christmas period. Delegates at the ICF’s event on conflict management on 22 November (see News Online) donated six food hampers and £140 to the campaign, while the UK ICF board also provides pro–bono coaching for staff at the charity. You can contribute by texting “Kids Help” to 70700 to make a £5 donation.
News Online
Change minds with words
How well do you know your clients? Are they motivated towards achieving an outcome, or avoiding problems? Do they make decisions by evaluating for themselves through external validation? These are among the questions Shelle Rose Charvet invited coaches to consider at an Association for Coaching Master Class on 11 November in London. Read more
When it hits the fan, who are you?
When you experience, deal with and manage conflict, who are you, what do you notice going on inside of you and what is your style? These were some of the questions posed at a workshop on how coaching can make a difference to conflict in the workplace. The workshop was held in London on 22 November and was sponsored by the UK International Coach Federation (ICF) with Coaching Development. Read more
January 2011
26-27 January: London
Learning & Skills exhibition http://www.learningandskillsevents.com/
Autumn 2011
Coaching at Work’s first annual conference: date and theme to be confirmed
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