Welcome to the June 2012 issue of the newsletter

Prompted by neuroscientist Geoff Bird’s suggestion at our last conference that coaches and clients might start sniffing bonding hormone oxytocin before sessions, we asked you what you thought. Some 94% of you voted against, in our online poll. We have another keynote on neuroscience in our second conference next month (July)- Chris Samsa will be talking about neuroscience and positive psychology. The conference is now sold out, weeks before the event, just like our last one. The conference sponsors this year are: Gold: Insala; Silver: Centre for Coaching; The CoachOnline, EMCC,  ICF; i-coach academy; Kogan Page; McGraw Hill/Open University Press, The Results Coaching System, Synergia and Bronze: the Association for Coaching and Challenging Coaching. Here’s the conference programme. We will include a conference report in the September issue.

We’re still feeling like good sports and in somewhat of a celebratory mood, what with the international sporting event taking place so we’ve launched a special 15% discount offer on digital subscriptions. We know many of you still appreciate receiving a hard copy of the magazine and enjoy our quality paper and illustrations, but for some of you, particularly if you’re based overseas, the digital sub can make sense. So here goes: here’s the code for the 15% discount. CADSUM2012. Please feel free to share with colleagues and friends!

In the next issue we interview former Olympic gold medallist turned coach, Adrian Moorhouse, who is by no means merely basking in the legacy of his previous successes.

Our campaign, Coaching for Health, is still forging ahead, with regular editorial coverage relating to this theme. In this issue of the newsletter (and in May issue of the magazine), for example, we have a piece on resilience (see Highlights) and a piece on coaching for wellbeing. In the July issue of the magazine, Stephen Palmer writes on using Motivational Interviewing as part of his in-depth health coaching toolkit series.  And the theme for our conference is Embracing & Enabling change: resilience, creativity & wellbeing in challenging times.

Subscribers can choose to either subscribe to the digital magazine, or printed magazine (which includes access to the digital magazine). Subscription includes six issues a year; 16 newsletters (including four mentoring digests); inclusion in our global Coach List; additional online content; access to every issue since 2005, a global LinkedIn group with nearly 9,000 members, and discounts on our events. See a sample issue here.

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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Sample our content

You have to be a subscriber to access most of the articles on Coaching at Work website. However, you can now view a whole issue here:
http://www.coaching-at-work.com/2010/11/30/sample-magazine/

NEW ONLINE FORMAT

Subscribers to the magazine can now read it, and earlier content in a Calameo format, allowing you to “flick through” the magazine online. Do be patient when you’re downloading the magazine- it can take up to 20 seconds or so.

See back issues in this new format: http://www.coaching-at-work.com/2012/01/20/back-issues-2/

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 May issue of the magazine

Great pretenders
We learn to perceive, interpret and interact with others as infants but without appropriate responses from caregivers, defensive behaviours can develop and hinder us as adults. Attachment theory can alter these patterns, and reveal our true identities, says David B Drake. Read more

Bouncing back
What is resilience? More importantly, what does it mean to your client? And can resilience be learned? Jenny Campbell explores these questions, among others, in her research. Read more

The first degree
There are a number of routes to gaining a doctorate in coaching and mentoring, including Oxford Brookes’ and Middlesex University’s. Read more


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Become a fully accredited coach

The Ashridge Masters in Executive Coaching is part-time over two years.

Develop reflective inquiry into your own professional practice.

Programmes starts in  September 2012.
Full details are online www . ashridge . org . uk/amec

or contact jensigne.molbeckblyth@ashridge.org.uk

How to coach for Wellbeing

In one of a number of articles around health and wellbeing as part of Coaching at Work’s campaign, Coaching for Health, Sarah Dale and Haley Lancaster explore using the Five-a-Day model in coaching. Read more

Research matters: I see where you’re coming from

Should you trust your intuition?

Watch out, say Lis Merrick and Paul Stokes. Read more

Road Test: Do you see what I see?

In this article, we look at Clean Language. Read more

Stop Press

Coaches need to help business leaders get in touch with the future they want

In the second article I wrote for The Guardian on what’s holding leaders back from driving the sustainability agenda through, based on interviews with executive coaches, we explored how business culture gets in the way. Placing values, trust and collaboration at the heart of corporate culture will help address the growing disenchantment within big business and coaches are the right people for the job, http://bit.ly/LizHallsustainable2 The first article in the series is below.

Fear holding leaders back on sustainability

Leaders are being held back from driving the sustainability agenda through fear of being out of control, isolation and being left behind, say coaches I interviewed for The Guardian Sustainable Business hub: http://bit.ly/LizHallsustainable1

Women take up just one in ten boardroom posts

Over the last year, only one in ten executive boardroom appointments have been taken up by women, according to a report by Deloitte. The report warned that although businesses are starting to increase the number of females on their boards, most are appointed to non-executive positions as opposed to more important executive roles.
Women fared better in non-executive roles, accounting for 30% of appointments in the FTSE 350.

The greatest coaching outcome research ever!

Ashridge Centre for Coaching and partners are coordinating an ambitious research project on outcomes and have already received more than 1,000 returned client questionnaires and a great many from coaches and sponsors too. So already this research has the largest sample in the whole literature on organisational consulting and executive coaching. More on the research in the next issue of Coaching at Work. If you haven’t done so already, invite your clients to join the research www.ashridge.org.uk/client
Ashridge has pledged to keep updating participating coaches about their own effectiveness scores and after data collection is concluded in 2013 will also email all participating coaches the findings of this research.

Student support

A firm offering specialist coaching to potential university students and military college recruits launched this month (May) in the UK. Pulsus aims to offer help in interview preparation, confidence building and ongoing career guidance and mentoring. Pulsus offers courses in Devon and is looking to offer courses in London too.

Businesses not investing enough in middle managers

Employers are failing to invest enough in middle managers and their development, a global survey of 1000 companies by Harvard Business Publishing suggests. Some 46% of respondents admit to poor investment in the next generation of leaders. Since the recession, leadership investment in middle managers has dropped by 20%.

Gen Y demands better performance management

The younger generation expects more from their managers, said Peter Cheese, chairman of the Institute of Leadership & Management. Speaking at a 3C Associates round table called 21st Century Performance Management, Cheese said change is coming from the bottom up and Generation Y employees want to be recognised early on in their careers, and given guidance on how to improve.

Unemployed people more likely to be depressed

Unemployed people are more likely to be depressed than similar individuals in employment, says Professor David Fryer, chartered psychologist, writing in an article in The Atlantic, according to the British Psychological Society’s website.

Emotional intelligence and deception

Individuals who rate themselves as having high levels of emotional intelligence tend to overestimate their ability to detect deception in others, according to a paper in Legal and Criminological Psychology by researchers from the Centre for the Advancement of Psychological Science and Law at University of British Columbia, Canada.

Diary dates

July

3-4 July: Sheffield (UK)

European Mentoring & Coaching Council 2nd Mentoring and Coaching Research conference. Sheffield Hallam University www.EMCCconference.org.

11 July: London

Coaching at Work conference. Speakers include David Clutterbuck, Liz Hall, Stephen Palmer, Aboodi Shabi and Christopher Samsa http://www.coaching-at-work.com/Embracing-and-enabling-change-home/

16-20 July: London

5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits). Centre for Coaching www.iafpd.com/centreforcoaching.htm

September

28-28 September: Boston (US)

Coaching in leadership and healthcare conference. Boston Renaissance Waterfront Hotel www.instituteofcoaching.org

October

3-6 October: London

International Coach Federation global conference

23-24 October: London

2-day Primary Certificate in Health Coaching, Counselling and Training. Centre for Coaching www.iafpd.com/centreforcoaching.htm

November

15-17 November: Spain

European Mentoring & Coaching Council 19th annual conference. www.emccouncil.org

The University of Lincoln launches MSc in Personal, Corporate and Executive Coaching. This innovative and practical course has been specially designed to create and accredit professional coaches to recognisable standards, resulting in coaches who have capacity to be leaders in the field. This course would suit existing as well as prospective coaches and practitioners.

http://www.llmc.org.uk/programmes/Corporate-Professional-and-Executive-Education/MSc-in-Personal-Executive-and-Corporate-Coaching


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The Centre for Coaching, London UK

The Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development Ltd runs a range of Middlesex University Accredited and Association for Coaching recognised modular coaching courses at Levels 5, 6 & 7. The 5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits) is an introductory Cognitive Behavioural coaching programme. Other courses include the 5-day Certificate in Psychological Coaching (Level 6, 15 Credits), the modular 6-day Certificate in Stress Management and Performance Coaching (Level 5, 30 Credits) and the Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Level 7, 20 Credits). The Diploma courses are at graduate and postgraduate levels.

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