A host of European Mentoring & Coaching Council (EMCC) annual award winners were acknowledged on 1 June 2020, the first day of the EMCC’s global conference.
Société Générale has received an award for its effective, well-organised, top-down programme, impressive well-documented results and the way it partners with organisations it works with.
The European financial services group won an award in the coaching category of the 2019 EMCC annual awards, celebrated at the EMCC’s annual conference in June. Other winners in the same category were Coacharya, Henley Centre for Coaching, Tofas and individuals Christina Demetriades, Dr Paras and Nigel Cumberland.
Société Générale’s blended, holistic coaching programme, OptiME, was designed to increase participants’
self-awareness to help them become the best possible leader of self, others and the community. Independently reviewed by Birkbeck University, it delivered extraordinary results, exceeding participants’ expectations.
By developing greater openness and a deep level of trust in sharing personal insights and vulnerabilities in coaching conversations and more broadly across the cohort, individuals increased their understanding of behaviours and clarity on goals and initiated positive change to unleash potential, increasing awareness of wellbeing and attaining better work/life balance.
Tofas, a Turkish manufacturer of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, was recognised for how it tailors its offering to clients, ensures rigorous evaluation and its innovative use of online resources. Global leadership development and coach training business Coacharya was acknowledged for its work promoting coaching in India, including providing free resources and organising events, and Henley Centre for Coaching, part of Henley Business School, for its range of activities, triple accreditation for its programmes, excellent record in research and writing, and how it’s increasingly taking its programmes across the world.
In the Mentoring category, the winners were: The Island (for its charitable work providing space and time for vulnerable children and young people and as an example of the very best mentoring work carried out quietly but effectively); Turkish Education Foundation (for its contribution to mentoring in the field of education, especially in the youngest area); Dr Judie Gannon, a senior lecturer in the International Centre for Coaching and Mentoring Studies (ICCaMS) in Oxford Brookes Business School at Oxford Brookes University, UK (for her research work and contribution to the improvement of mentoring programmes in organisations), and Rajesh Misca (for his application of mentoring in the field of sport).
The winners of the Supervision Award were Dr Damian Goldvarg, 2013-14 ICF global president (for his impressive work in a challenging environment in putting supervision on the map in the Americas); Dr Lise Lewis, EMCC president, 2011-17 (for her huge commitment to supervision over a long period of time, and in admiration of her voluntary work both on behalf of the EMCC in being a Global Special Ambassador for supervision and for doing pro bono supervision work such as the EthicalCoach initiative), and Dr Michel Moral (for his many years promoting supervision and connecting with people across the world in doing so).