AoEC One-Day
Conference 2008
“The Coaching Relationship”
Champagne Reception
and Graduation
Dinner and Dancing!
26th September 2008 - London Paddington Hilton
Whether you are an experienced practitioner, an HR professional
or a leader using coaching skills, the complexities of the “coaching
relationship” provide constant challenges.
Successful
coaching outcomes are never formulaic: supporting your clients
or direct reports to achieve their goals requires finesse,
skill and constant creativity.
In this one day event we are
bringing together skilled practitioners and leading thinkers
to share their knowledge, wisdom and experiences and to create
a rich day of learning and debate that will broaden your
skills and inspire you.
The exploring and cross fertilisation
of ideas that push the boundaries is a key element of our
approach to advanced coach training at the AoEC.
This day
provides a fantastic opportunity to bring together the wider
coaching community for a creative and enriching leaning experience
as well as the chance to network, socialise and have fun!
So if you would enjoy...
- Exploring ideas in a highly interactive and creative
atmosphere
- Learning about a new area or updating your current
knowledge
- A perfect networking opportunity
- Meeting up with your
former programme colleagues if you are an AoEC graduate
- 'Cross
fertilisation' of ideas and experiences across programmes,
cultures and countries
- Celebrating the success of this year's
graduates
- Relaxing and having fun - dancing the night away!
...then please join us on September 26th at the London Paddington
Hilton.
Keynote presentations
Takes 2 to Tango
- Myles Downey - author,
CEO School of Coaching - Profile
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- John Leary-Joyce, CEO
AoEC - Profile
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With Tango, as in Coaching, successful flow and movement comes
not from techniques, but from the quality of contact in the
relationship. In both the leader creates the space for the
follower to step into.
This requires a high degree of personal
presence, trust and openness on both sides. In this presentation
John will use the Tango partnership as a way of explaining
the coaching relationship. Myles will then us his expertise
in the Inner Game methodology to take us through an exercise
where we can experience using our body awareness to build rapport
and give direction through non-verbal communication.
Relational Coaching
- Erik de Haan - author, Director
Ashridge Centre for Coaching - Profile
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I will introduce the idea
of Relational Coaching, its history, defining characteristics,
and how I think it brings a valuable perspective on those relationships
based on the research for my book Relational Coaching. I’ll
then invite you as coaches to think about what you hold dearest
in your work, and how that informs your approach. I will also
address this question myself.
I will provoke you to consider
a different way of thinking about executive coaching, in which
you would have to let go of some of your core values. Finally
I’ll ask you to reflect on some of the relationships
in the room, particularly the ones we are actively engaging
in here and now.
Workshops
Getting
Back on Track - The Transitional Coaching Relationship
Ann Lewis, Ann Lewis Coaching and author - Profile
>>
Ann Lewis will present
a model for supporting clients to recover their confidence
and presence at work after emotionally damaging setbacks or
in difficult work circumstances. The session will be participative
and interactive.
The Dramatic Rise of 360 Degree Feedback
Heather Cooper, Director of Executive Coaching Tools -Profile
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Recent research by the CIPD has shown that 360 degree feedback
is growing hugely in popularity. It is now widely recognised
that 360 feedback offers significant benefits to both individuals
and organisations. In response to this trend, there has been
a considerable increase in coaches and coaching organisations
adding a 360 degree component to their work. The workshop explores
these important trends and how the coach can get the best from
360 feedback.
Strengths Coaching – An Evolution
in Coaching Practice?
James Brook, Director of Titan Talent Ltd and Strengths Partnership
Ltd - Profile
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Corporate coaching is still largely based on theories and
approaches that have their roots in traditional weakness or
pathology-based models of human functioning. Titan Talent’s
approach to coaching is based on refreshingly different assumptions
- that awareness and creative deployment of one’s strengths
to overcome performance blockers and take advantage of untapped
opportunities lie at the heart of performance excellence, confidence-building,
growth and employee fulfilment.
This session will explore the
opportunities, benefits and challenges of this exciting new
coaching approach through examining positive psychology concepts
and techniques, case studies, practical exercises and the latest
research.
photoVoyage
Penny Millar, photoVoyage - Profile
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photoVoyage is an innovative process that uses high quality
portrait photographs for self reflection and self awareness.
The impact is immediate and the results long lasting, with
strong visual evidence that can be used as part of an individual
coaching programme or for peer feedback.
"A rare opportunity to see ourselves as others see
us " John Leary-Joyce
Penny will demonstrate 'live', how this remarkable and effective
process works. www.photovoyage.co.uk
Creativity as a Coaching Catalyst
Jaana Lindström, 4Colours, Executive Coach, Creativity Consultant and Art
Therapist - Profile
>>
Creativity as the Crucial Tool for the Wellness of People
and Success of Companies.
Recent research has shown that organisational
creativity and a climate for creativity is not only important
for companies to attain competitive value and remain attractive
in the market, but also beneficial for the individual. Organisational
creativity is increasingly interesting for leaders who play
an important role in the design of the creative workplace.
The association between leadership and employee creativity
as well as between creativity and well-being are relatively
new areas so coaches have an important task here to support
leaders in their quest for organisational creativity. In this
workshop, Jaana Lindström will share her creativity and
leadership experience in this field.
A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom
Peninah Thomson, Praesta Partnership & author - Profile
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“Businesses are fighting for talented people but, judging
from the statistics, top level talent would appear to be largely
a male preserve. This is, clearly, nonsense. Peninah Thomson
and Jacey Graham’s timely study has put forward, unequivocally,
the case for greater female representation in boardrooms. This
isn’t about the need for positive discrimination; it’s
about responding effectively to a commercial imperative.” – Rt
Hon Tessa Jowell MP, Minister for Women and Secretary of State
for Culture, Media and Sport.
This workshop Peninah will draw
on her research from her books to examine why more women aren’t
in the boardroom and how coaching can support a radical change.
Evaluating the Coaching Relationship
Stephen Daltrey, AoEC Director of Coaching -Profile
>>
How do you evaluate
the performance of coaches where the end result is that everyone
leaves the organisation? How do you support a CEO to wind up
his/her business after 5 years? This was the task of a team
of coaches from the AoEC. The organisation was being completely
disbanded and all employees were either given redundancy or
being re-assigned to different agencies.
One could say that
coaching in this case was a waste of money, but the government
agency had a loyalty to the staff and wanted that loyalty returned
by those who transferred to the new ‘super-agency’.
This unusual case example has been carefully evaluated as part
of a Masters research study and will be presented here – outlining
the successes and difficulties of coaching towards termination.
This seminar will be ideal for coaches who wish to understand
more around the whole subject of evaluation, particularly for
an organisation undergoing transformational change or closure.
The process will be a mixture of presentation, audience participation & exercises,
Q&A.
The Dance of Diversity
Razia Aziz, Executive Coach, Organisational Consultant, Creative and Healing
Practitioner -Profile
>>
Within the choreography of the client's developmental dance,
an exploration of diversity and the idea or aspiration of equality
can provide powerful, even revelatory insights. It can help
explain otherwise opaque, and apparently perverse, situations,
and help guide interventions. Diversity is always present and
often relevant.
The workshop aims to look at how a sensitive exploration and
articulation of diversity "co-ordinates" - both in
the material the client is presenting, and in the coaching
relationship itself - can lead to a richer, more accurate,
perception of self, other, relationship and organisational
cultures. Conversely, missing out diversity means missing potentially
crucial information upon which situations - and careers - can
stand or fall.
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