We are presenting, along with a great line-up of speakers on Saturday 9th January 2010 in Kennington, Oxford.
LIVING THE ULTIMATE RELATIONSHIP
9 January 2010 – 9.00am – 5.30pm
Kennington Village Centre, Kennington, OX1 5PG
Click here to book – lunch included in ticket price
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) says more than 500 companies were surveyed for the Taking the Temperature of Coaching report, which found that 90% of them use coaching and 51% of them see coaching as a key part of learning and development and consider it ‘crucial to their strategy’.
According to the survey, coaching is being used at all levels to build on good performance (23%) and improve poor performance (20%), and also in leadership development (23%)…. as reported by Personnel Today.
For an amazing and cost effective training workshop for Coaches and Trainers – click here: http://snurl.com/learntocoachworkshop
Yesterday we were on BBC Coventry & Warwickshire for a third time on the Annie Othen mid-morning show; this time talking about overcoming fear.
Annie asked us some great questions; we were on the show for 40 minutes, talking for 25 minutes, plus a few tracks of music.
You can download and listen to all 25 minutes of us talking by clicking on the picture.
Tonight we are the main attraction at The Solihull Business Club, talking about “What’s at the Cutting Edge of Personal Development, Coaching and Mentoring? – How Can It Help Me And My Business?“
Coaching as a process is designed to help you (the coachee) to gain insight and confidently make decisions though the coach asking you great questions. The coach need have no knowledge of the area/subject matter being coached. The questions should not be leading or directive and will elicit intuitive responses, conclusions, new insights and perspectives by you – the ‘coachee’. The coach offers an impartial, non-judgemental service that helps breakthrough whatever may be holding you back.
In an often quoted study by the Manchester Group, ‘Improved Relationships’, at 77%, made the greatest contribution to improved Return On Investment from coaching.
Mentoring is quite different – the mentor gives advice and insight based on his/her specialist experience and knowledge, which is shared in a teacher:student way. The mentor may ask great coaching questions, and may also lead the client/student towards conclusions that are favoured by the mentor, based on his/her experience. The mentor may be asked for their advice and may freely give it.
Relationships – the complex and emotional interaction between two human beings is not something that can be mentored, unless the mentor has had specialist training and plenty of experience in effective relationships. Life experience (the university of life) alone does not teach us what we truly need to know in order to be fulfilled and reach our true potential in relationships. Instead, life experience tends to merely propogate behavior that does not get the results that we would wish for.
This is why our combined approach of education and mentoring, followed by coaching, based on very specific and high quality training and experince in relationships, is essential to gain the results that you wish for.
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