Welcome to the March 2012 issue of the newsletter|Coaching at Work

Welcome to the March 2012 issue of the newsletter We have a fabulous line-up planned for our conference in central London on 11 July. The theme is Embracing and Enabling Change: resilience, creativity and wellbeing in these challenging times. Sessions include a keynote on neuroscience, case studies from Unilever and the Samaritans, and workshops on health/wellbeing coaching, fee negotiations, somatics and mindfulness. Our last conference was a sell-out and I know lots of you were disappointed. Don’t miss the boat this time – for more information and to book now click here .   Our campaign to help increase the amount of high quality health and wellbeing coaching continues. Professor Stephen Palmer, who is one of the leading experts on health coaching, will present a workshop on Health & wellbeing coaching: a psychological approach at our conference. He is also writing articles on health coaching approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Coaching, an approach he co-founded, and Motivational Interviewing, for the May and subsequent issues. Meanwhile, in the March issue, we have a general trends article on health coaching (See Highlights of this issue). Also in the next issue, we have a How to coach for wellbeing using the Five Ways to Wellbeing model article by Sarah Dale and Haley Lancaster, as well as a report on resilience. And we have lots more planned, including debates. Join our discussion threads on LinkedIn: How can we make health coaching more widely available? And Do health coaches have to be qualified health professionals?   We’ve been delighted by the response to the launch of the digital version of the magazine. If you are a printed magazine subscriber, you can now see the magazine in the new digital format for no extra cost. New subscribers can choose to either subscribe to the printed and digital magazine, or to the digital magazine only. See sample online issue here .   What you get with subscription each year: access to six magazines online; access to all magazines and articles since 2005; additional online content; 12 newsletters; 4 mentoring digests; free inclusion in global coaches’ list; discounts on Coaching at Work events. 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 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

	Highlights of the March issue of the magazine Know your place Peninah Thomson, co-founder of the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme, is doing her best to find the “many lights under bushels” when it comes to board-level female talent. Read more Handle with care If most illnesses are preventable, why aren’t we preventing them? Health coaching is the next big thing. Read more Share your passions What are the roles of coaching and mentoring in addressing the biggest challenges of the 21st century? The second of three articles by Neil Scotton and Alister Scott shares the views and voices of coaches and mentors Read more

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	Missed ability Disabled people are just like other people – why offer them particular support as a group? Because it could unearth talents employers are not aware of, says deaf coach Jane Cordell Read more

	Asset management Why should disability be a problem when you coach the whole person? Surely it’s just another phase in the continuum of life, say coach Barbara Asimakopoulou and disabled client Katerina Hurd. Read more

	Mentoring diversity Disability is increasingly important in business diversity. David Clutterbuck reveals the core issues for mentors. Read more

Stop Press Landmark accreditation meeting Coaching at Work led a landmark meeting earlier this month between leaders of the UK’s coaching bodies and coaching sponsors including KPMG, GlaxoSmithKline and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The bodies pledged to agree a core set of common competencies to help coaching buyers and to take part in a further ‘working session’ with coaching sponsors to explore further collaboration on accreditation. A report on the meeting will be published in the May issue. For initial comparisons on the different bodies’ accreditation schemes, see Coaching at Work’s accreditation hub High client satisfaction for West Midlands Coaching Pool Ninety per cent of the West Midlands Coaching Pool’s clients say that coaching has had a positive impact on their organisations. The Coaching Pool, which celebrates its fourth anniversary this month, has worked with more than 550 managers, supporting improvement programmes across its 19 public sector partners. BPS SGCP new chair Mary Watt, emeritus professor of psychology at City University, London, has taken over as chair of the British Psychological Society Special Group in Coaching Psychology. She said: “I’m looking forward to working with very capable and committed colleagues who I know will also be fun to work with. I’m also looking forward to the opportunities for wider collaboration that the role affords. Coaching psychologists and coaches have the potential to make a very positive difference to the lives of organisations and individuals but to maximise our effectiveness collaboration is critical. It is important that we share our knowledge and experience and value what we each have to offer, learning from each other.”
News Online Unilever grows female talent Unilever’s efforts to ‘home-grow’ female leaders to more accurately reflect its largely female customer based are paying off, thanks to a global mentoring programme. Case study in the next issue and at the Coaching at Work conference on 11 July. Read more Netherlands tops European countries for individual EMCC accreditation Holland is flying the flag in Europe for coaching standards- 1,400 of its coaches have gained the European Mentoring & Coaching Council’s individual accreditation and 39 at master practitioner level, the highest in any country. Read more Balfour Beatty champions wellbeing programme Balfour Beatty’s next wellbeing programme will target 300 of its most senior employees. Meanwhile, internal coaches are supporting 260 employees who tool part in a pilot wellbeing programme run by Ei World in August to November 2011, in Balfour Beaty Plant and Fleet Services. Read more Assessments: not so obvious It’s not what people tell you, but what they cannot tell you that matters in assessment, revealed Adrian Furnham at the BPS SCGP 3rd European Coaching Psychology conference in London in December. Read more
Diary dates April 23-27 April: London 5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits). Centre for Coaching www.iafpd.com/centreforcoaching.htm May 10-12 May: London Sydney   2nd International Congress of Coaching Psychology, Sydney, Australia. APA IGCP. Speakers include Dr Lew Stern and Prof Stephen Palmer. www . groups . psychology . org . au/events/CPIGconference2012/ 21-25 May: London 5-day Certificate in Coaching (Level 5, 15 Credits). Centre for Coaching www.iafpd.com/centreforcoaching.htm 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 www.coaching-at-work.com 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 November 15-17 November: Spain European Mentoring & Coaching Council 19th annual conference. www.emccouncil.org

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Join us at our open day for the Professional Certificate in Coaching and MSc in Coaching and Behavioural Change, on Wednesday 16 May, www.henley.com/openday – meet tutors and current students and experience a sample teaching session.

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The Centre for Coaching, London UK

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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) and the Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Level 7, 20 Credits). The Diploma courses are at graduate and postgraduate levels. Click here for: Course dates; Course Brochure. Email: cope@international-academy.eu

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Welcome to the March 2012 issue of the newsletter