LinkedIn is rapidly becoming a powerful network for developing contacts and generating new business as well as staying in touch with professional contacts and colleagues. Lauriate Ltd is now using LinkedIn to complement the professional development options for Team Sociomapping Service Providers and Programme Co-ordinators. The new LinkedIn forum is also a great way to stay in touch with news and upcoming developments for Team Sociomapping and Team Profile Analyzer.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=3068619
EMCC
18th March 2010
Park Crescent Conference Centre
229 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 5PN
Whilst there is divided opinion within the coaching sector about whether psychometric or psychological assessment should become a standard element of the coaching process, what is increasingly clear is that it is important for coaches working at the Mastery level of coaching practice to have a clear understanding of what assessment methods are available to coaches and when it is appropriate to apply these approaches ethically and appropriately in organisations. The key issue is being able to support clients in making decisions about when and how assessment can be integrated into the coaching process to ensure maximum client benefit.
This session will cover both individual and team assessment providing an overview of the different assessment options available to coaches. We will also highlight the issue of boundary management and the issues associated with when and how to refer a coaching client to an expert provider of psychological services for an in-depth psychological assessment.
Individual and team assessment processes will be explored through case examples using Saville Consulting WAVE, Team Profile Analyzer and Team Sociomapping as illustrative examples to show how an integrated approach to assessment works in practice. We will also show you how it is possible to apply assessment at different stages of the coaching process to ensure maximum client benefit.
Speakers
Pauline Willis & Dr Rainer Kurz
Further Information can be found here :-
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs022/1102142477117/archive/1103073727916.html
The IET Oxford Local Network
24th February 2010
St Antony’s College, Oxford
The terms team and team-working are probably the most overused buzz words in organisations and often applied inappropriately to all kinds of ‘work groups’. A team is not just a group of people working alongside each other, the term team when applied correctly refers to a key organisational unit consisting of people who work interdependently with each other towards the attainment of a common goal. Teams are fundamental to most engineering & technology businesses and vital to the success of research, development & manufacturing in this sector. This short session will focus on delivering core concepts and skills that engineers and technologists can cultivate to create and maintain high performance teams.
Pauline Willis is the Speaker at this event
For further details and to register for this free event
http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/thames/oxon/skills.cfm
With the UK still firmly in the grip of economic recession, HR buyers are looking at ways to ensure that every penny spent on coaching programmes delivers tangible return on investment. Team Sociomapping® offers a process for measuring the impact of executive and team coaching as well as providing organisations with a way of measuring impact on team performance. Major projects are currently underway in the UK within local and central government as well as in the private sector.
Team Sociomapping® is an innovative suite of tools based on a unique methodology for visualising complex systems and is ideally suited to the coaching environment as a means of stimulating and supporting coaching dialogue as well as evaluating coaching impact on team dynamics. This toolkit has been packaged for use in the coaching and organisational development sectors to support a range of Team Development needs and it is now possible for appropriately qualified & experienced coaches to use this powerful toolkit to support Team Coaching.
Members of the UK Team Sociomapping® Provider Network now includes, Leading Edge Coaching, The Academy Of Executive Coaching, Zeal Solutions, The Professional Development foundation (PDF), Stephenson Consulting, CFM Consulting, Intuition Discovery and Development & Prosperity in Business.
Richard Clarke from the Academy of Executive Coaching said:-
“We initially used the Sociomapping system internally and found it to be a revolutionary and unique toolkit ideally suited to support dialogue in team coaching conversations.” “The AoEC has now become a UK Sociomapping Provider so from January 2010 we will be supplying Team Sociomapping analysis to our clients as part of an integrated Team Coaching service”
Lauriate Ltd is the UK distributor for Team Sociomapping®. For more information go to www.sociomap.co.uk or contact pauline.willis@lauriate.com +44 (0) 1865 784388
Lauriate will have an exhibition stand focusing on Team Sociomapping and TPA.
On Thursday 14th January there will be a workshop on TPA.
Workshop
Advanced analysis of team profiles using Team Profile Analyzer (TPA)
P Willis, Lauriate Ltd, T Srb, QED Group a.s., R Kurz, Saville Consulting UK Ltd
On Thursday 14th January there will be a development paper on using Sociomapping in the Mars flight simulation.
Development paper
Using Sociomapping of crew communication and cooperation as a tool for team performance management in the ground based experiment simulating manned flight to Mars
T Srb, QED Group a.s.
Further information can be found on the BPS website www.bps.org.uk/dop2010/dop2010_home.cfm
Further information on Team Sociomapping and TPA can be found on our website at www.sociomap.co.uk
The Division of Work and Organisational Psychology (DWOP)
13th June 2009
Dublin, Ireland
Pauline Willis will be talking on the subject of
“Creating individual and organisational success through Team Coaching”
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin 2
Time: 9.30 am. – 1pm.
Registration time – 8.50am – 9.15am. Payment at time of registration.
The hotel has underground parking facilities available + there are 2 public parking areas off Aungier St., as well.
Why should you attend?
* This workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to learn about team coaching.
* This workshop is informed by theory and practice – which can be used to extend our coaching tool-kit towards supporting team coaching and development.
* Pauline Willis aims to provide an overview of team coaching services that clients are interested in buying in difficult economic times.
* The reduced fees reflect the current climate – DWOP & DWOP CPG members – €50 / Non-members – € 75 Euro.
* This workshop has been awarded 2 CPD credits and Certificates of Attendance provided on the day.
* Workshop handouts will also be provided on the day – please note these will not be available on DWOP’s website.
* Pauline Willis is happy to discuss the possibility of holding a workshop at a later date on the Sociomapping tool. This discussion will take place after her workshop.
* It is a great opportunity to network and , if you already familiar with team development solutions, to share with us your own team development experiences.
If you are interested in attending –please note –you must book in advance only. Places are limited. Please email Yseult.Freeney@ucd.ie to book a place.
The Division of Work and Organisational Psychology (DWOP) 2nd biennial Conference
27th March 2009
Dublin, Ireland
Pauline Willis will be talking on the subject of
“Creating high performance teams and organisational success through team coaching”
With the recent economic downturn and the ‘credit crunch’ it is increasingly difficult for organisations to identify and implement solutions they can be confident will deliver both the short and long term results that are essential for both organisational survival and success as the world economy recovers. Clients are now looking for solutions that are grounded in research and have demonstrable organisational value through evidence based practice and robust evaluation. Whilst individual coaching can be simplified to a set of processes that can be taught to and implemented by almost anyone in an organisation, this is not the case with team coaching which requires greater understanding and appreciation of the organisational context and an understanding of how individuals and groups behave and develop. There are many ways to approach team coaching and to use the full extent of our expertise as organisational psychologists, so whilst the economic downturn has presented some challenges both for our clients and for us as service providers, Team Coaching is a way of offering a cost effective, integrated solutions for the needs of many organisations in the current economic climate.
More information on the conference and a booking form can be found in the DWOP brochure :-
http://www.psihq.ie/DWOPCONF270309.pdf
BPS 2009 Division of Occupational Psychology Conference
14th – 16th January 2009
Blackpool, England
Pauline Willis will be exhibiting Team Sociomapping at the Lauriate exhibition stand, for more information on Team Sociomapping visit http://www.sociomap.co.uk/
The Annual Division of Occupational Psychology Conference is the main conference in the UK for psychologists who work in organisational settings. Full details of the event can be found on the BPS website here:-
http://www.bps.org.uk/dop2009/dop2009_home.cfm
At the 1st International Meeting of Coaches in Prague hosted by the Czech Coaching Association CAKO coaches from across the globe were brought together for three days of presentations, workshops and dialogue to foster the sharing of knowledge and ideas. The climate was of respectful international collaboration amongst coaches from different professional backgrounds and approaches to coaching.
Everywhere you look these days you see the term coaching. Coaching took off as a niche in the personal development industry in the 1980’s. Since then a number of organisations providing specialist coach training and development services have been at the forefront of a rapidly growing industry. One of the themes highlighted at the CAKO IMC was the fact that expertise in the practice of coaching is drawn from a number of different traditional areas of practice. As this is the case it is important to ensure that practitioners are appropriately qualified both in coaching practice and have relevant training or qualifications in related domains of practice. Discussions and a presentation by leading UK Coaching Psychologist Pauline Willis highlighted that the Business and Psychological underpinnings of coaching are key areas which are gaining popularity and importance. Increasingly advanced coach training programmes are looking to traditional disciplines such as psychology, organisational development and management for tools and techniques that will increase the depth and power of the coaching relationship.
The open and collaborative climate set in the Czech Republic though the 1st IMC is a fitting precursor to a major event due to be held in Dublin 2008. The Global Convention on Coaching or GCC as it is known, has been brought together to support the mutual exploration of the future of the coaching industry by all stakeholders in coaching. Difficult questions such as ‘what does the specialist domain of knowledge for coaching consist of?’ and ‘what training and qualifications are really needed for a practitioner to set out shop as a ‘professional’ coach?’ will be covered through the process of dialogue and scenario development.
One of the leaders of this initiative speaking at the Czech conference was Australian Psychologist and co-editor of the ICPR, Dr Michael Cavanagh. At the end of three days of sharing and dialogue, Michael extended a warm invitation for all coaches and other stakeholders in coaching, from all backgrounds and all countries, to come forward and take a place in a global consultation process that will continue in the spirit of openness and collaboration that was modelled in the Czech Republic in September 2007. Support for the GCC has been strong across the coaching community with a number of prominent names stepping forward to take part in the working groups that form the operational engine of the convention.
Participation in the open consultation in the lead up to a convention event to be held in Dublin in July 2008 is open to everyone who has an interest in any aspect of coaching as a domain of practice. The consultation leading up to the convention over the next six months is taking place online, so participation is free and easy if you have computer access. If you are interested in taking part you can complete the online application form at
www.coachingconvention.org
The International Coach Meeting
20th – 22nd September 2007
Prague, Czech Republic
The International Coach Meeting, which is going to take place in autumn in Prague, it is a Great Happening in the following points:
* PERFORMANCE – the Alfa and Omega of every successful company – it is the central point of the Meeting where the most competent of all will participate
* The Best International Coaches will participate. They come from ICF (International Coach Federation), EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council), AEC (Academy of Executive Coaching), and also from Association for Coaching
* Interaction, workshops, individual discussions and answers to various questions, which will move the Coaching World ahead – through other questions
* Multinational standard and professionalism of the visiting coaches and excellent organisation are a must for such a unique event to happen.
* The Meeting is necessary for owners of companies, managers, students and others who are aware of the potential and benefit of ‘coaching’ in companies
More information can be found at http://www.cako.cz/meeting/
Pauline Willis will be speaking at this event http://www.cako.cz/meeting/?page=Speakers/willis
