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.

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

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

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, 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

This event is intended for people thinking of starting a technology business or those who already have. It aims to be informative and thought provoking. There will be a series of short presentations on why technology businesses are different, what issues you will face as an individual and how to fund your ideas. These will be interleaved by actual case studies and rounded off by questions to the speakers.

Discussions will continue informally over refreshments and a buffet afterwards.

Pauline Willis will be speaking at this event

Further information and registration details can be found on the IET Oxford website
IET Oxford Local Network

I am inviting people who experienced coaching whilst working in a managerial role to complete an on-line questionnaire. The questionnaire takes approximately 10 minutes to fill in, and it is completed via a survey dedicated website which guarantees complete anonymity.

If you received coaching, I would be grateful if you would spare some time to complete the questionnaire. I would also appreciate if you would forward this message to your colleagues who have participated in coaching.

As a member of the British Psychological society, I am bound by strict ethical guidelines.

All answers are confidential & anonymous, and are for research purposes only. In the final report only aggregated results will be reported, which means that no-one can be personally identified by their answers. Participation is voluntary, and you can withdraw from the questionnaire at any time.

If you decide that you can take part, thank you so much, I am extremely grateful for your input.

The questionnaire can be accessed here
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=789862690885

So that I can meet my project deadline, I would appreciate if you would complete the questionnaire by 25 October, 2006.

Should you have any questions or comments please contact me at LJStewart@mail.com.

Once again, thank you so much for your assistance and for your participation in my research. Your input is greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Lorna Stewart

We are confident that by taking an informed and innovative approach to identifying your professional development needs in relation to Coaching Psychology Practice, you will be able to identify the ‘best value’ development solution to suit both your professional needs and your budget.

What will I actually ‘take away’ if attend this one day workshop?

The key output from your engagement with this workshop which includes telephone and email based support after the event, will be the creation of a personal development plan. You will develop this plan yourself using the information we provide for you along with a facilitated ‘self-assessment’ of your existing competencies relative to coaching psychology competencies and capabilities.

Date: October 2nd 2006
Venue: Oxford

Download Flyer Here
For more information contact pauline.willis@lauriate.com

coachingpsychologist.net professional development and supervision network offers an innovative and cost effective approach to professional development and supervision for coaching psychologists. Coaches and mentors who are interested in the appropriate application of psychology to coaching and mentoring practice are also welcome. Membership is ‘free’ for anyone who is eligible to join. However, if you have products or services that are relevant to the coaching psychology and are interested in promoting them a fee will be charged for any ‘advertising’.

How does it work?

The professional forums offered at coachingpsychologist.net essentially work as peer consultation or supervision groups very much like the ones that are set up either formally or informally by colleagues offline. These online forums will, however, provide continuous access to professional support groups as well as a diverse range of members from across the profession of psychology globally. This international perspective provides significant benefits to professional practice and facilitates the flow of new ideas and practices.

Another key aim of coachingpscyhologist.net is to support the practice of coaches who are not themselves psychologists but who are committed to the appropriate application of psychology within coaching practice. Coachingpsychologist.net takes a very welcoming view that facilitating the transfer of psychological ideas and methods through coaching for use in all aspects of life and work is a good thing. However, this bounded with a very clear caveat. And this is that it is important that if coaches are going to use psychological ides explicitly in their pracice they need to have access both to the knowledge base of psychology and professional support in applying psychological principles appropriately within coaching practice. Coachingpsychologist.net does, therefore, offer a range of ‘open’ forums where coaches and psychologists can discuss issues of common interest.

International referral service for coaching psychology services

The site will also include a referral service so that coaches who are seeking specialist coaching supervision in coaching psychology can find appropriate supervisors easily. The referral service is powered by the CMN www.coachingnetwork.org.uk referral database. If you are interested in joining the referral database more information is available Here

To register interest in joining the coachingpsychologist.net community of practice go to http://www.coachingpsychologist.net

Many thanks to everyone who has generously shared their experiences so far. We have collected some interesting stories. As this has proven to be a valuable way of collecting information from the clients perspective we have decided to keep the research element of this project going.

So if you are a client of coaching or mentoring services and would like to share your experiences of the coaching process please do let us know.

All responses will be treatest with the strictest confidence and only grouped summary data will reported unless you give your explicit permission for us to share your story as ‘case study’. We are planning to select ‘indicative’ case studies to share with coaches and mentors to support continuing professional development. Research results will be written up and submitted to publications such as the International Coaching Psychology Review and Coaching at Work magazine and all participants will be sent a copy of the research findings if they are interested in seeing them.