Welcome to the March 2014 issue of the newsletter

Let’s get connected

Follow us on Twitter at

http://twitter.com/CoachatWorkmag

http://twitter.com/lizhallcoaching

Join our global Coaching at Work Linkedin group at

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=2274910

Coach list

Have you joined our coach list yet? or if you’re a buyer, have you used the list to help you find the coach/coaches you need? you can now upload a coaching at work coach listing member logo onto your website, emails and so on to show you’ve been approved. Go to:

http://www.coaching-at-work.com/coach-register

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 March/April magazine

Research: putting out the feelers

Paul Stokes, director, Coaching and Mentoring Research Unit, Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, argues for a formal link between emotional intelligence and leadership development. Read full report here.

Three minutes to midnight: working with your nemesis

Working with your nemesis – beyond good and bad? So here it is in a nutshell. There are major issues facing the world – social, economic, environmental – some are close, others are coming down the line. And coaching has a role to play. Read full article here.

Mentoring: Let´s get ready for work.

In the latest in a series of columns dedicated to mentoring, we look at how to use mentoring to support graduate programmes in your organisation. This issue: moving up the career ladder. Read more here.

We are the World

Coaching on UNICEF’s global leadership programme requires curiosity, and the ability to embrace diversity and adopt multiple perspectives. Rachel Ellison reports. Read full story here.

Troubleshooter: Growing pains

An independent coach has found herself unable to move on from an unresolved coaching assignment. She blames herself for its lack of conclusion, and is now having serious doubts about her ability to continue with her work. Could supervision with a fellow coach find a path through for her? Read full story here.

Toolbox: The thinking environment

Coaching at Work road-tests the Thinking Environment. Read full report here.

Stop Press

Accreditation Hub

We’ve uploaded an amended version of the Accreditation Comparison Chart; a new Assessment Criteria Chart, which replaces the previous Differentiation Chart, and a new Headline Coaching Competencies Chart, which has been agreed between the members of the Coaching Bodies Round Table who use a coaching competencies framework as the basis for accreditation/credentialing, namely the Association for Coaching, the European Mentoring & Coaching Council and the International Coach Federation in the UK.

Entrepreneurial instinct

Trusting instinct may be better than thinking too much when developing new business ideas, suggests research by BI Norwegian Business School. The researchers looked for connections between the mindsets of 242 bachelor students in business and finance and how many new companies they set up. Students with implemental mindsets (where people use known patterns to make decisions and the outcome is always an action), rather than elaborative mindsets (where individuals assess a situation and aim to obtain information) were behind most of the new companies.

Self-acceptance low in the UK

Giving is the top key to happiness, closely followed by putting effort into the relationships that matter the most. But self-acceptance is important too. Yet only 5% of 5,000 respondents polled in the UK by the charity Action for Happiness and Do Something Different put themselves at a score of ten for self-acceptance. Acceptance is the trait most closely linked to life satisfaction.

Take part in research on multi-stakeholder contracting

Multi-stakeholder contracting and managing multiple stakeholder relationships can be tricky. Guidance here would be helpful- and this is exactly what is expected to come out of research being carried out by Eve Turner and Professor Peter Hawkins. The researcher duo are still calling for participants (particularly from clients and organisations) in their research on how to gain maximum value from business/executive coaching through multi-stakeholder contracting. The research will also update on supervision in this area, as cases brought to supervision on multi-stakeholder contracting led to the research. There are three questionnaires aimed at coaches, individual coaching clients and organisational sponsors.  In addition to Coaching at Work, the AC, EMCC and ICF, who make up the GCMA (Global Coaching and Mentoring Alliance) and a number of large organisations such as GSK and Saint-Gobain, are supporting the research. Survey for coaches , Survey for organisations , Survey for individual coaching clients Any queries please contact Eve Turner: eve@eve-turner.com

New opportunities to find out more about coaching at Henley.
• Coaching Open Day, Tuesday 20 May
• 10th Annual Henley Coaching Conference, Friday 20 June.
To register and learn more about these events, or more about our coaching qualifications, visit www.henley.ac.uk/coachatwork or contact Pauline Fletcher on 01491 418767 or email: exec@henley.ac.uk.