Welcome to the January 2013 issue of the newsletterAnd so another year begins, with snow in the UK, a helicopter crashing in London and not much in the way of economic recovery in much of the world. The UK economy contracted by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). And here in Spain, where I’m currently based, the second EU bailout of 1.865 million euros is set to arrive by the end of the month. Some six million are out of work, many of my friends received no Christmas bonuses or have lost their jobs or had their pensions cut. It´s easy to be gloomy. Yet, over this coming year, 41.7% of you predict an increase in income, according to respondents to our annual survey. We share the bulk of the results from our survey in the January issue of the magazine (see News online) although early responses at that time indicated a majority predicting income remaining the same. Nevertheless, for many of us, survival has been our biggest achievement over the last few years. And key to that survival is keeping on the ball, being creative, adding new strings to our bow, and taking note of what others are doing. So whilst the title of our next annual conference (2 July, central London) is yet to be revealed, we can say we´re including lots to help you do all the former- case studies from organisations including Santander and Asda; workshops on new topics such as mindful-based supervision (Graham Lee), team coaching (KPMG´s Louise Buckle), and neuroscience (Prof. Paul Brown). Paul is also doing one of the keynotes (and we´re profiling him in the March issue of the magazine). Other keynotes include David Megginson´s on goals and Christian van Nieuwerburgh on “aha moments”. I´ve included once more the news story from one of Christian´s recent sessions on this, in case you missed it last issue (see News Online). We hope to start taking bookings for the conference very soon. Subscribers are entitled to a discount on this and all other Coaching at Work events. The Coaching at Work team wishes you all a very Happy New Year. Coaching at Work has now launched online and website advertising. Please contact Kate Thomas to hear about our new advertising options, including advertising in the online magazine only, or specific advert types on our popular website – kate@coaching-at-work.com Subscribers are eligible for a discount to this and all our events (the last two conferences sold out weeks before). In addition to discounts on events, subscribers receive either the digital magazine, or the printed and the digital version of the magazine. We publish six magazine issues a year; up to 16 newsletters (including mentoring digests) and subscription also includes registration on our global Coach List; additional online content; access to every issue since 2005, and a global LinkedIn group (at last count we had almost 14,000 members). 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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More Highlights of the magazine
Profile: Peter Goryalov and Irina Goryalova.
Post-Communist Bulgaria may not be the first country you’d associate with world-class leadership, yet International Coach Federation Bulgaria co-founders Peter Goryalov and Irina Goryalova are spearheading some remarkable changes. Read full article here. Three minutes to midnight – to serve and protect? Getting past the demons: the third in a new series of columns on our role in tackling the complicated economic, environmental and social challenges we face. Read full article here.
In NHS we trust.
Lisa Gresty can be forgiven for grinning like the proverbial Cheshire cat. As head of OD and learning at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, she has helped the Trust’s multi-pronged coaching strategy go from strength to strength in both patient care and quality of experience. Read full article here. |
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Burditt Lectures: ‘inspired, moved, educated’The second year of the Burditt Lectures saw entrants raise the bar even higher. Liz Hall reviews the top two winning entries at the awards ceremony in London. Read full article here. |
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Mindful insightsCoaching supervisor Graham Lee has been using mindfulness in his work – with positive feedback. By enhancing emotional tolerance, even experienced coaches say they now feel more available to their clients, holding open the door for deeper insights to emerge. Read full article here. |
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Worldly wiseIntercultural coaching is no longer a ‘niche market’ in our highly globalised world. Philippe Rosinski explains how learning from different cultures can refine and enrich your coaching skills. Read full article here. |
Stop PressEMCC Mentoring eConferenceThis month saw the first ever EMCC Mentoring eConference take place (on 16-18 January). The conference was run with the International Mentoring Association and the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico and was free to take part in. Themes included multinational mentoring; mentoring in education; mentoring in the community; developing a mentoring culture, and systemic versus systematic. A conference report will be included in the March print/digital magazine. Stonewall names the top gay-friendly employers for 2013Accenture has been named the UK’s most gay-friendly employer in the annual list compiled by equality campaigners Stonewall. Gentoo and The Co-operative complete the top three in its index. ICF strikes off one of its members International Coach Federation (ICF) Global has struck off a member of ICF Spain, Pedro Amador, for failing to fulfill his ethical obligations. Amador is now unable to be a member of any ICF chapter. Older men more at risk of heart disease through job strainsOlder men with stressful jobs and little power to make decisions are more likely to suffer with heart disease than their peers with less job strain, according to a study published in Occupational Medicine, the journal of the Society of Occupational Medicine. The researchers from University College Cork found that older male workers who had had a heart attack or had unstable angina were four times as likely to have high job strain as those that did not. Although a combination of high job demands and low control at work has long been associated with coronary heart disease, this latest research looks specifically at its effects in the older workforce. UK employers are unaware of the Bribery Act.Only half of UK employers are aware of the Bribery Act, despite the fact that the legislation has now been in place for more than a year, according to research by professional services firm Ernst & Young. MENTOR partners with Peace FirstThe National Mentoring Partnership (MENTOR), which champions youth mentoring in the US has announced a partnership with Peace First to launch a new national campaign to celebrate young people leading change in their schools and communities. The Peace First Prize will recognize impressive young people for meaningful peacemaking work that creates “lasting good” in a community, neighborhood or school. Five winners will each receive a $50,000 Peace First Fellowship over two years to further their peacemaking work. News OnlineCoaching at Work annual survey resultsA majority (61.5 per cent) believed there is a shift in what coaching is, with varying views on what this looks like. Some 75 per cent agree that coaching will become more integrated with initiatives such as talent management in 2013. Collaboration and reaching agreement between the professional bodies was identified as the top priority for coaching in the coming year. Supervision emerged as the second most important topic for the year. Read more here. How to increase the chances of an aha momentThe more you push for an “aha moment”, the less likely it is you´ll get one but you can create conditions to make it more likely to happen, said Dr Christian van Nieuwerburgh, senior lecturer at the University of East London´s School of Psychology in the United Kingdom. To encourage new thinking in clients, we need to encourage them to “unfocus”, be creative, experience challenge and believe, he said. He was speaking at the seventh annual Instructional Coaching conference at Kansas University. He will be speaking at the Coaching at Work annual conference on 2 July. Read more here. |
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Diary dates2013
19-20 February: London
Primary Certificate in Stress Management. Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development. 5-6 March: Birmingham
Health and Wellbeing at Work Conference 18-22 March: London
5-day Certificate in Coaching (University Accredited, Level 5, 15 Credits). Course Recognised by the Association for Coaching, Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development 20-22 March: Sydney
ICF Australasia Coaching Conference 18 April: London
Firework Career Coach Training 24-25 April: London
25-26 April: Belfast
Association for Coaching Ireland: Back to the future conference
29 April-3 May: London
5-day Certificate in Psychological Coaching (Level 6, 15 Credits) and Certificate in Coaching Psychology (Level 7, 20 Credits). Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development.
7 June: London Enhancing resilience: A Cognitive-behavioural approach, workshop. Centre for Coaching, International Academy for Professional Development.
2 July: London Coaching at Work’s annual conference 21-23 November: Athens |
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