Welcome to the May 2011 issue of the newsletterHope you can join us at our Coaching and Mentoring at Work: Beyond frontiers conference in London on 23 November. We have special discounted rates for subscribers, and for members of professional bodies and of our LinkedIn group. Session themes include Positive Psychology; neuroscience; mindfulness; ontological coaching; coaching/mentoring in the prison sector, juicy case studies and a hot debate on the fuzzy line between coaching and therapy. We will be including more details over the coming weeks but you can get an idea here: http://bit.ly/lifDMq We will be taking bookings very soon. In the meantime, please register your interest at: admin@coaching-at-work.com Liz Hall,
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Further highlights of the May/June issue of the magazineUnited front Related article – Working the team Group behaviour Let’s keep a creative mind |
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Coaching chronicles: The EgyptiansRelated article: The Troglodyte |
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Perspectives – folk and musicMatthew Draper asks what it means to be a musician and a coach. Read more Related article: On song |
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Troubleshooter- care to join us?A group of managers are to be trained in coaching, along with their CEO. Participants must practise together between sessions but the CEO is not keen. How can he be persuaded to take part? Read more |
Stop PressDon’t worry, be happyThe most effective happiness habits are doing something kind or generous for someone else; writing down every night three good things that have happened that day and making the effort to smile, according to the Happiness Habits Experiment Report by Lucy McCarraher and Annabel Shaw published this month (May). Whilst it is challenging to learn happiness habits and remembering to do them is hard, once embedded, they have a powerful effect, finds the research. For more information, see the news story in the July/August issue or go to: http://www.therealsecret.net/The-Experiment.html Employers need to take action on mental health, says MindNow is the time for employers to stand up and take action, and to support staff wellbeing to get the best from their employees, urges Mind chief executive Paul Farmer. In an article in Personnel Today, Farmer says that most good wellbeing practices don’t require any expenditure. He says small steps, such as ensuring staff have an opportunity to talk to their managers can make a huge difference. Mind’s latest research for its mental-health-at-work campaign, Taking care of business, draws on the experiences of 2,000 workers and shows that two-thirds of employees feel under more pressure than ever before, while four in 10 say that they are currently stressed or very stressed by their jobs. http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2011/05/16/57633/making-your-workplace-mentally-healthy.html Free health-check for business coaching programmesMost coaching programmes in businesses today are of poor quality, according to market research by Bresser Consulting. Many implementers have poor qualifications; there is a lack of real coaching plans and concepts in many companies and very low or no strategic integration of coaching programmes, says the consultancy. "Coaching may end up being used rather superficially at a symptom level and/or being merely lip service to raise the company profile and employer attractiveness in the market," said Frank Bresser, founder of the consultancy. It has launched a quality initiative, Strategic implementation of coaching programmes in companies. It is offering a free "health- check" for companies, offering recommendations on how to best fill any existing gaps for free by phone. Contact info@bresser-consulting.com). It is also looking for organisations to act as exemplary role model and pioneers for its new "second generation" coaching programmes. www.bresser-consulting.com See "Best Fit", Bresser´s third in a series on how to successfully use coaching in companies, Read more Virtual study communityAnnette Fillery-Travis, coach and director of programmes for the DProf at the Institute of Work Based Learning at Middlesex University, has established a virtual community for those interested in the study of coaching. She is inviting coaching practitioners who would like to be linked to an international community of those involved with practitioner research to join. The community already involves coaches in the UK, Argentina and South Africa. Membership of the community is by invitation. To register interest in being part of the community contact Samantha Owen at S.Owen@mdx.ac.uk. AC resilience conferenceIn the build-up to its conference on resilience on 14 July, the Association for Coaching UK is making available a series of resilience-related articles. The first is Chapter 1 from the latest AC book Supervision in Coaching, which will be launched af the conference: http://bit.ly/SupervisionInCoaching. Speakers include Dr Anthony Grant on whether coaching really enhances resilience, well-being and happiness; Professor Stephen Palmer on health and well-being coaching: A cognitive behavioural approach; Dr Chris Johnstone on evoking resilience in times of uncertainty. Workshops include Jane Keep´s on building resilience for consistency and steadiness. http://www.acukconference.com |
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News OnlineThe art of masterful coachingWe coach from our wisdom, not our knowledge- and this wisdom is about our capacity to listen and be present, to see what else may be needed to transform that person. This was the message from Aboodi Shabi, European head of Newfield Network, opening the International Coach Federation UK´s event, The Art of Masterful Coaching. Other speakers included Liz Macann from the BBC, Edna Murdoch and Miriam Orriss of the Coaching Supervision Academy and David Gustave of Kids’ Company. Read more |
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Diary datesMay 24 May: Newcastle upon Tyne Association for Coaching UK event on “Performance Anxiety Coaching – supporting clients through high anxiety events ” 26-27 May: Pretoria The Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology of South Africa’s Interest Group in Coaching & Consulting Psychology’s first Southern Hemisphere International Congress of Coaching Psychology. June 13-17 June: London Certificate in Coaching accredited by Middlesex University (Level 5, 15 Credits). Centre for Coaching. www.centreforcoaching.com 17 June: London The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Coaching´s first coaching conference: Therapist-Coach: Coaching for a Changing World 18 June: Dublin The Psychological Society of Ireland, Division of Work and Organisational Psychology’s Coaching Psychology Group, 1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology. Continuing the global series of events. For more information: http://bit.ly/fZyPad 16-18 June: Madrid ICF European Coaching conference July 14 July: London Association for Coaching UK second annual conference with University of East London. Theme: resilience. http://www.acukconference.com 11-15 July: London Certificate in Coaching accredited by Middlesex University (Level 5, 15 Credits). Centre for Coaching. www.centreforcoaching.com September 24-27 September: Las Vegas, Nevada, US ICF annual international conference November 23 November: London Coaching at Work magazine – Coaching and Mentoring at Work Conference: Beyond frontiers. Email Liz Hall at admin@coaching-at-work.com for details |
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