Welcome to the August 2011 issue of the newsletter

It’s easy to feel daunted at the prospect of carrying out research if you don’t have an academic background. I’ve felt this myself throughout my many years working in journalism, digging around in all sorts of dusty corners, and more recently as a coaching practitioner. Apparently, many coaching and mentoring practitioners foraying into the world of research feel anxious and concerned that they are somehow frauds – this came through at the European Mentoring & Coaching Council’s first research conference in Holland. Academics are often responsible for this discomfort, reflected David Megginson,emeritus professor of HRD at Sheffield Business School in the UK. However, practitioners should not hold back as they have highly valuable perspectives to bring to the table. We also need more research in coaching which looks inside the “black box” of relationships, argued David eloquently at the conference (see News online and see the September issue for the full conference report). David is a regular columist for Coaching at Work, contributing to our Research Matters column which rounds up and looks at coaching and mentoring research with a critical eye. In the September issue, he turns to the self-regulating forum, LinkedIn, for perspectives on procrastination and how to address coaching around it.

In light of the growing interest in mentoring, we’re just launched a quarterly Mentoring Digest which you should have automatically received. Do let us know what you think!

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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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There is also some freely available content on the website, including the following:

  • Be well and prosper
  • The measure of you The number of organisations using coaching is steadily rising, yet its true value is still not being assessed. The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development’s John McGurk shares his practitioner guide to real-world coaching evaluation. Read more
  • Poor Practice 2010 part 1
  • Poor Practice 2010 part 2
  • Coaching buyers want ´chemistry´ Interim results from the Ridler report 2011 Read more
  • The jewel in the crown – in-store coaching delivers ROI Read more
  • I wish I’d… Nottingham Business School’s Elaine Robinson and her supervisor Erik de Haan share insights from one of their supervision sessions. Read more
  • Train to Gain Coaching at Work examines the overall trends in coach education and development. What’s on offer and where can you go to get it in a growing but often confusing market? This report includes a table of what some of the main providers offer. Read more 
  • More Process, Less Insight? We’re seeing smarter practices in executive coach selection, but also evidence of commoditisation and excessive process, according to a report by Carol Braddick. Read more
 

More highlights of the July/August issue of the magazine

Does memory serve?

How can two people, using the same facts, arrive at different decisions? Because you can’t always believe what you think, says Len Williamson. Cognitive-based interventions, however, can help us achieve better outcomes Read more

Related article How to coach better decision-making 

View from the balcony: does it naturally follow that one-to-one coaches make good team coaches?

Our resident anonymous coaching buyer columnist recently observed some team coaching but remains sceptical about it being distinct from other approaches such as facilitation or group process consultation. He/she also thinks that the ability to work with individuals and with groups are not synonymous and that in time we may see people who just do team coaching – whatever that may be.

Let us know what you think at: thefacelessclient@coaching-at-work.com
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The Centre for Coaching, London UK

The Centre for Coaching runs a range of Middlesex University Accredited and Association for Coaching recognised modular coaching courses at Levels 5, 6 & 7.

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The 5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits) is an introductory programme. Other courses include the 5-day Certificate in Psychological Coaching (Level 6, 15 Credits) and the Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Level 7, 20 Credits). The Diploma courses are at graduate and postgraduate levels.

If you want to advertise your organisation here, please contact Kate Thomas for more details.

Letter from Spain: Gain in Spain

César Fernández says coaching is growing in Spain as businesses ‘reinvent’ the rules to meet the difficult economic climate. Read more

Related articles
¡Y viva coaching!
Costa del Coaching

 

How to… improve leadership communication

Coaching for leadership communication is not simply about helping a leader become a better presenter. It’s really about helping leaders develop three essential skills: first, to expand their awareness of how they come across, second, to finetune their language to increase clarity and third, to encourage inspiration among the people they lead, says David Thompson in our latest How to column. Read more

Related article
Dramatic Rescue

 

Road test: PRISM

What are you like?

This time in our regular Road test column which trials tools and techniques, Coaching at Work road-tests the PRISM brain-mapping tool. Read more

Related article
Give me five

 

Stop Press

Trust the boss, honest

More than half (55%) of employees believe their line managers are open and honest, suggests the latest Employee Outlook survey from the UK’s Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Health coaching next big thing

Health coaching will be the next big thing in coaching in the UK, predicts Professor Palmer, director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at City University in London. He said health coaching is much more effective than health education and promotion alone as many studies have shown and it is easy to establish its return on investment (ROI). Read more

Old school ties

There’s nothing new under the sun when it comes to resilience and the psychological techniques people use to cope with adversity, disease, death, loss and suffering, argued Tim Anstiss at the Association for Coaching’s conference on resilience on 14 July in London. There is lots of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in Ancient Greek Stoicism, he argued, while Buddhism has lots of positive psychology, CBT and compassion.

Doing it for the kids

The Association for Coaching and UK International Coach Federation have joined forces to coach young people and members of KidsCo, a charity supporting vulnerable inner-city children.

Turkish delight

Coaching is helping boost entrepreneurship in Turkey, which is vital to help create jobs in its large and fast-growing young population. Istanbul-based Institute of Executive Coaching and Mentoring recently delivered individual and team coaching through a programme led by nonprofit body Massachusetts Institute of Technology Enterprise Forum to enhance local entrepreneurship.

Hey, big spender

Around a third of organisations spent between US$50,000 and US$250,000 on coaching in the financial year ending June 2010, while 16 per cent spent more and 51 per cent, less, according to global research by the NeuroLeadership Group.

News Online

What’s in a name? US study identifies styles

Researchers in the US have taken initial steps towards developing a taxonomy of coaching styles. The coaching community has no taxonomy to describe and differentiate styles and many practitioners struggle with how to describe their own, said John Bennett, director of the Master of Science in Executive Coaching programme at McColl School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte in the US. He was speaking at the European Mentoring & Coaching Council’s first research conference on 7-8 July at the University of Twente in Holland. Read more

How do you describe your coaching? Contribute to our discussion thread on the Coaching at Work LinkedIn thread http://linkd.in/nqCE2O

Look in the ‘black box’ of relationships or risk denying the richness

The coaching and mentoring community needs more research that looks in the “black box” of relationships, said David Megginson, of Sheffield Hallam University, speaking at the European Mentoring & Coaching Council’s first research conference on 7-8 July at the University of Twente in Holland. Read more

Diary dates

September

16 September: Stockholm
 
1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology (Sweden)
http://www.coachandepsykologer.se/page3.html

20 September: London

CIPD coaching conference
http://www.cipd.co.uk/cande/coach

24-27 September: Las Vegas, Nevada, US

ICF annual international conference
http://www.coachfederation.org/conferences-and-events/

October

11-12 October: Barcelona

 
1st International Congress of Coaching Psychology (Spain)
http://coaching.psychology.congress.spain.copc.cat/index.php/en/

November

16 November: London

International Coach Federation UK neuroscience conference
www.coachfederation.org.uk

17-19 November: Paris

EMCC annual conference
http://paris2011.emccconference.org/

23 November: London

Coaching at Work magazine – Coaching and Mentoring at Work Conference: Beyond frontiers. Email Margaret Bradley at admin@coaching-at-work.com for details.

The Centre for Coaching, London UK

The Centre for Coaching runs a range of Middlesex University Accredited and Association for Coaching recognised modular coaching courses at Levels 5, 6 & 7.

coachinglogo

The 5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits) is an introductory programme. Other courses include the 5-day Certificate in Psychological Coaching (Level 6, 15 Credits) and the Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Level 7, 20 Credits). The Diploma courses are at graduate and postgraduate levels.

If you want to advertise your organisation here, please contact Kate Thomas for more details.